Medical Speciality
I am thinking about going to the med school for immortality, life extension research and possibly for biohacking/transhumanist technologies... Which medical speciality should I choose? What do you think?
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However, quite a number of clinician-scientists are researching on those matters. Dr Robert J White was a pioneer in head transplants and advocated for a "brain in a machine" model and he was a neurosurgeon. There's a neurosurgeon planning to perform the world's first head transplant on a patient this year. A neurologist developed electrodes that would receive signals from the brain, and there are plenty neurologists working in that area.
See where I am going with this? ;)
In fact, my point is that medicine is more about clinical work and treating patients more than "finding out stuff". Hence I said "clinician-scientists" because they are two different occupations.
That said, clinical work does give you a very good idea about how the human body can go wrong ("diseases don't read textbooks" we all say) and what we can do about it at this stage.
First of all, med school is probably not the most effective way to go.
If you are good at math, physics and chemistry, you can study
biochemistry, bioengineering, biology and specialise on molecular biology.
If you are very into coding and informatics you could also study bioinformatics.
Maybe you are very into physics and very good at maths. Why not studying physics. Phisicists are very good at bioinfomatics. And bioinformatic is a very yousefull skill especialy when it comes to systems biology or gerontology.
Maybe you are not that good at science things but you are a good speaker or writer. How about journalistic? The science approach in longevity is very dependend on public opinion. Or how about business management and help startups for cures for age related deseases?....
So you see there are so many ways to go. Just do this what you think you are good at and keep an open mind.