help please!!

Flightline is right about all of the above. My best advice is to concentrate on the present for now--make the grades, get good scholarships, etc. Five years from now, you may have no desire to be in the medical field, but that's OK because if you get a good education, many doors will open up to you. As a nursing student, I was lucky enough to observe several surgeries. The OR was awesome but there were negatives....It's cold and you are on your feet for several hours depending on the type of surgery. Check into shadowing someone in the OR. You may not be able to do that at age 14, but it never hurts to ask!

Check with your local hospitals. Some of them have programs geared towards volunteers by high school students interested in health care. Also, ask around to see if you know of any doctors or surgeons who is willing to let you shadow them for a day or a procedure.

If you want to actually DO the surgery, you must be a physician. You need to keep your overall grades up through high school, then attend a four year college as a "pre med" student, studying biology, chemistry, math etc. Then you go to medical school, and then you have specialized training in surgery. You might try one of the doctors web sites for more detailed info. Best of Luck to you, it's great that you are thinking ahead!

My advice to you dear child is to go to medical school and become a surgeon. Period.

An OR or surgical technician assists with the surgery by handing instruments etc to the surgeon. But set your sights higher than that. Then there are the circulating nurse and the scrub nurse, both RNs. But the surgeon is the person of interest. Also there might be an assistant surgeon or surgeons depending on the complexity of the surgery. The anesthesiologist only attend to the patient as far as sedation and maintaining respirations, BP etc. He/she is usually an MD or an RN with advanced training.

But if your dream is to work in the OR, dream big and study hard for the M-CAT when the time comes. Good luck!!!