What you do need to be good at as a doctor is to be good at staying calm, listening for “hidden messages” in patients’ stories, decisiveness, quick-thinking and, some say, gestalt or instinct. But the most important thing about the road to becoming a doctor is sheer hard work… not even so much intellectual brilliance, just the will to work. And work. And work some more.

So no, you don’t have to be really good at algebra to actually be a doctor, but you do need to have decent grades in algebra (and just about everything else) to enter medical school (after which you can toss your algebra out of the window unless, like me, you find algebra calming… these days I do it after I come home from a long day at work to forget about my patients!)

Good luck !!!! XD

Doctors are like astronauts. They are the academic cream of the crop.