Future Career

When I grow up, I want to be a doctor, and more specifically, a cardiothoracic surgeon. I want to work with people, and I want to help them live better lives, but I really want to be the one person who has a major influence upon whether a person lives or dies. I've been told that I am crazy, because I'm going to be so sad when I lose patients, so I tell them that I will be, but, I can only imagine the exuberant felling that I'd have after saving the life of someone who would not have lived otherwise. It's going to take a lot of school, and even more residency, but I want to be a surgeon no matter what I have to go though.