I'm preparing to choose a college, and I decided that I want to go into medical research. I've always had a passion for wanting to help people, especially those with terminal illnesses, like AIDS, or people in unfortunate situations, like those who've suffered brain injuries. I don't want to work one-on-one with these people, but rather try to find cures or at least treatments to improve their lives. My questions for people who have a career as medical researcher/scientists are:
1. What's your job like?
2. How do you like your job?
3. Are there any schools or specific programs I should be looking into?
4. What should I major in?
5. Do I have to go to medical school?
6. Is your salary reasonable?
7. Any other advice/tips you can offer are appreciated.

Thanks a lot. =)

Hello college bound,
Thanks for joining Rosetta@home.
Since I don't know the Rosetta forum is the right place to look for information on a career as medical researcher/scientist, I googled for Medical Researcher and came up with these links:
http://www.ahfmr.ab.ca/communications/researcher.php
http://careerpath.org/reports/bestcareers/20060725-needleman.html

Good luck with your career,
Path7.