Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein

And I hear my own kids saying it now, like they don't want to be doctors.

But when I was an undergraduate, I thought I wanted to do something related to nutrition.

So I studied nutrition as an undergraduate at Cornell University.

And somewhere along the line, probably when I was a junior, I decided I wanted to go to medical school.

I think I had been suppressing that.

And I

Yeah.

And then I had to take all those prerequisites all in a year and catch up and go.

And, you know, I'm glad I made the decision.

But for some reason, I saw myself in health adjacent fields, areas I was interested in.

But I'm really glad I studied those things as an undergraduate because I applied them now.

I think sometimes you realize you don't want to do anything else, but it comes to you late after you study a lot of the adjacent things.

Did your dad?

When I told my dad I wanted to go to medical school, the first thing he said was, are you sure you want to do that?

And my youngest, who is now 18, just said to me the other day, you know, do you think I could study this and still apply to medical school?

And I thought to myself, oh my gosh, he's going to tell me he wants to go to medical school and I'm going to

have that feeling of I don't want him to have the stress and the sacrifice and the lack of sleep and, you know, things like that.

But at the same time, if he ultimately decided he wanted to do that, like I know he would be happy with his decision in the end, for example.

And it's the question that people ask you all the time.

If you could go back in time, would you redo it?