In summary of the nature article:
Listen and be interested in why they hold those opinions, use motivational interviewing techniques (I explain this as Inception, trying to get the patient to have the ideas) and provide solid evidence, be realistic about data and certainty, ie the MMR vaccine is safe (and doesn't cause autism) the COVID vaccine has less data as it's newer, but it is still safer for the vast majority of people than COVID.
Seconded, I've run the introductory module another bug hunt and loved the system and the module.
Honestly other than a little pang when interacting with my nephew's of am I missing out, it's mostly positive.
We have time and money to do more of the things we enjoy, not that there's much of that even without kids when you factor in 2 full time jobs.
Honestly one of the big reasons we decided to not have kids. With some budgeting we have a good quality of life as we both earn a good wage. Though we still have to be careful. Adding kids to that mix would mean we would struggle at times and have to cut back on the niceties to keep food and bills paid.
It is a depressing reality of our capitalist society.
34 male. Grew up with 3 siblings. Always wanted kids when I was younger. As I got older, met my wife and started living together we had lots of discussions about kids. She was never really interested in them and the whole pregnancy and giving birth thing terrified her.
On lots of reflection I realised that I was only interested in kids because of family and societal pressure, I think the world is over populated and generally heading downhill (fascism is massively on the rise globally, global warming, various wars) so decided that I didn't want to bring a child into that.
There's plenty of children in the foster system so if we change our minds later we can adopt and give a good home to a child that needs one.
This isn't a question random people on the internet can answer easily, but I can offer you some things to think about which might help.
I'm in a medical field in the UK and do some interviewing so I'd be asking you why you want to pick a job with long hours, bad pay (comparatively for the responsibility), poor working conditions? Medicine is not a job for people who want to breeze through or are just a little bit interested in biology and people.
I'd recommend you get some work experience, health care assistant jobs are commonplace in the UK and a great way to see if medicine is right for you, universities here look on it very favourably as well. If you can do a 12 hour shift where you are exposed to blood, poo, urine and vomit and still want to go back for more then I'd say medicine is probably an ok field for you.
What are your goals? Helping people is a common response in medical interviews but you can help in lots of ways, law like you've already been considering, engineering, accounting etc. What do you get out of medicine that you can't get elsewhere?
Do you want to make lots of money and have an easier life, don't pick medicine, pick something else.
What's your plan for winter?
Yes please. I love seeing how other GMs prep.
No. Chavs were the school bullies for me growing up so I get a pretty strong visceral ewe from that style choice.
Dragons dogma 1 and 2 fit the bill I think. 2 more so than the first.
Either a whole load of books, fiction, tabletop RPG sci-fi. I would also need to buy more bookshelves to put these on.
A decent upgrade to my computer, maybe a new graphics card.
A sword or two, some better protective kit for sparring.