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I don't know how doctors pick one specialty over another. Some you can understand. Pediatricians. Or gynecologists delivering babies, bringing a new life into the world, but how does someone want to be a proctologist? How can you fall in love with proctology?

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.

I'm from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.