IamA professional who got a major in biology and started working as a child's medical doctor. AMA!
I've been working as a child's medical doctor for about 18 years now and then started working as an adult as a medical doctor. I'm not a medical doctor myself, but I have been practicing for about 5 years now. For my time, I've been a licensed medical therapist and a licensed physician.
As a child, I was told that being a good child's medical doctor was all about practicing "good" medicine - i.e. using vaccines, doing blood work, etc. So I basically spent my formative years believing what my parents told me, which was buttressed by what my friends told me.\n\nSo what if I never "proved it" with my patients?\n\nI feel like I have loads of experience from working with babies, so I feel qualified to be a doctor.\n\nSorry, just needed to share.