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My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor.

I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.

My father was a doctor.

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments.

My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

My parents both are physicians, and my grandfathers were both physicians.