That was your way. Everyone has their own. That was the easiest path you could have taken. You must trust me on this. Take a look at the path of today's physicians, and think about your own path.
Every physician goes through a long and grueling process of selection, self-selection, and training.
That training is built on a foundation of learning, by rote, an enormous amount of information about the human body, about diseases, symptoms and therapies, about tests and diagnostics. The process is based on the powers of memory, observation, and logic. Though doctors are trained to consult, it is at root an individual process. And there is a meta-training as well, a set of assumptions, postures and beliefs that is often unspoken, but is in its consequences as powerful as anything a physician learns. In his rounds, the intern learns not only that he must know everything, but also that he must appear to know everything.