Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
If you are interested in becoming a doctor, spend undergrad making sure, and for heaven's sakes choose a major that will allow you to be employable with that undergraduate degree, because that is one very specialized skill set after med school.
While I do in general believe that this is true, I have two friends who graduated with MD/PhDs and then decided that they didn't want to be doctors or researchers. Both are now excellent patent lawyers (MD/PhD/JD), doing pharmaceutical work. I don't think it was a particularly cost-effective route, but they both made it work for them.