I have a complex congenital heart disease (CHD) and I want to be a paediatric cardiologist, except my friends think it's so I can help other kids like me (this is only partly true).  I want them to understand that I want to be a paediatric cardiologist, and I am likely to have gone into … Read more

Tell them it is for both reasons.  Its a compromise between What you're telling them and what they're hearing.  Plus,  its exactly what you told us.

Besides,  why do your friends need to care what field you go into?  How often does that conversation come up?  And when it does,  the reasons behind it are your … Read more