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Can you be a pathologist if you have severe mental illnesses?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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Balitiger23

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Assuming that the illness is under control with medication, that you can get an undergraduate degree with good enough grades to qualify for medical school, and make it through med school and residency, it is theoretically possible. There is no actual reason it could not be done.

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