>>Paul Attwood typed:
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>>> My 13 year old has been dead keen to follow her old man's footsteps and
>>> she's bright enough.
Maresah replied:
>Had this problem with my daughter only worse, she wanted to follow in her
>mother's footsteps! Shock! Horror! 5 A levels, 3 As, and an expected
>pittance qualifying salary.
>Fortunately she was suitably put off medicine by watching that programme
>following medical students before and after. Perhaps you should get the
video?
> :-)
Yes saw that and empathised in a way that could only come from being there
and doing that. She only saw part of it and missed the disallusion setting
in. Maybe they'll sell the vid for Xmas???
>Anyway to cut a long story short she's now doing zoology via a GAP year in
>Zambia on route to forensic science!!!!
Went to a lecture on blood spatters once. Fascinating drips, sprays, gouts,
smears. Great lecture before a nice meal. ;-)) Virtual display of murder
room with corpse and we had to guess the sequence of events before being
allowed to the trough.
>Should have let her do beauty therapy which was the desired career at about
>9!!!
My daughter's been fancying medicine since 7yrs old. Still it is a
challenging (and noble) profession but just undervalued at the moment. :-((
Paul Attwood
GP Ramsgate
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