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It's not like the only options are
1. quitting altogether or
2. staying on the current track
Sounds like you need to assess where you want to go. If you don't want to be a doctor, what do you want to do? Your career counseling center on campus should be able to give you a head start on that question (for free). If you stay and take time to figure things out, the worst that happens is that you take longer to graduate; however, your parents continue to foot the bill, and you graduate with the credential behind your name, which WILL make a difference in terms of getting a job.
If you quit, you might have the time to think about the direction in your life, but you will likely find it powerfully difficult to jump back into school should the direction require higher education. I know many people who have dropped out and, while they have decent jobs, they feel trapped because they often lack the educational credentials necessary to jump tracks or get a different job.
Another option is to find out what happens if you take a semester's leave of absence. Usually student loans have a deferment period during which you don't have to pay them off (about 6 months). If you take a semester off, it's likely that the loans won't come due; you'll get a taste of "real life" to see if you like it; and you'll have the time you wanted to think. However, be sure that you have things lined up for getting back in - "real life" can look pretty juicy when you' are used to an academic life, but it's for the REST OF YOUR LIFE, and after a while you start to miss the time when your only responsibility was to go to classes and learn shit.
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