Why economics is the best pre-med major

<p>"Economics taught me that I didn’t have to culture cells in a dish to do interesting and life-changing work. I built a habit of being inquisitive and intellectually curious about the world around me because I learned in undergrad that our human, flawed world contains elegant experiments, puzzling oddities, and fertile ground for inquiry. That profound change in mindset is the most important lesson I could have learned from my undergraduate major, and I’ll always be a grateful ex-economist."</p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieldonoho/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dan Donoho</a> is a pediatric neurosurgeon and can be reached on Twitter <a href= "https://twitter.com/ddonoho?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@ddonoho</a>.</p> <p>He shares his story and discusses the KevinMD article, "<a href= "https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/03/an-ode-to-econ-the-best-major-for-a-would-be-md.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An ode to econ: the best major for a would-be MD</a>." (<a href= "https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/03/an-ode-to-econ-the-best-major-for-a-would-be-md.html">https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/03/an-ode-to-econ-the-best-major-for-a-would-be-md.html</a>)</p>