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1. Yes, you do have to take courses that have nothing to do with your intended career. If you're in the US, almost all colleges have general education requirements that ensure that people who hate English take English classes and people who hate science take science classes and everybody -- every single person who isn't good at math or isn't good at math tests or has math anxiety or is certain (but wrong) that nobody ever uses college-level math in real life or hates math, to be honest -- takes math.

2. English is not irrelevant to medicine. You're going to need to be able to communicate clearly in writing (you will not be available to explain to other people what you meant to say) and you're going to need to be able to read and understand journal articles, which are not always the easiest things to decipher. If you cannot do the first, your patients are likely to suffer because other professionals working with them won't have the information you thought was important enough to put in charts and on referral forms and so forth. If you cannot do the second, your patients are likely to suffer because you won't be able to stay updated on the latest developments in your field.

So yes, you are going to have to take English and math. You are probably also going to have to take "writing intensive" classes in other disciplines, too. If I were you, I'd try to take some classes in the next 2 years that involve a lot of reading and writing, because the practice will help you in college. It's a lot harder to get into med school than to get into an undergraduate program, so you can afford grades that aren't quite up to your usual standard much more easily now than you will be once you start college. High school "health courses and doctor courses," on the other hand, may be more interesting to you right now, but they won't really help you in college the way writing courses will.

Whether or not you take my advice, though (I'm betting on not :) ), I wish you good luck as you progress toward your medical career.

I don't think it's the number of courses offered that matters - its the quality of those courses. If a reputable school offers a major in mathematics, and they offer at least 20 courses, then you should be okay. You'll probably take only about 12 math courses, right? If you're interested in some particular aspect of math, you'll want to make sure that that particular course is offered. I think you'd be better off looking at how many professors are there, which graduate schools did the math majors go to, and what's the average SAT score of the students. PS. In summary, the number of courses is not the most important variable, its just one of the many things to look for. In a small liberal arts college there may be only 30 math courses, while MIT or any big university may have 50 math courses, but some of the extra 20 classes overlap or duplicate some of the 30 "basic" courses. I think one of the most important rankings is the one done by US News & World report.

When you get to college, unless you major in nursing, athletic training, or similar, you won't take any health or "doctor" courses. Those will all be taken after college, in med school. In college, you'll take the classes for your major, as well as courses required by the university - and those do tend to include at least one math and one English class. In addition, you'll need to take the med school pre-requisite courses, which do include one year of college-level English, and a year of college-level math, up through calculus.

Most, if not all colleges, require you to take a freshman composition course. Mine required a minimum of 4 writing intensive classes on top of that. Most colleges also require at least one math course, with certain majors requiring different levels of math. Bio and Chem degrees usually require 1 year of calculus. Most medical schools require a year of math (preferring knowledge in Calculus) and at least one semester of English.

In the US

No matter what your major is, you are required to take general educational class for a Bachelor degree. That means english, math, science, history, humanities.

trust me the English classes and your writing ability you have from HS classes is not enough to get you through a professional career.

Most, if not all, universities require at least Algebra and 2 semesters of freshmen English. They all have CORE requirements that must be taken by nearly everyone trying to obtain a degree, regardless of what type it is.

Yes you HAVE to take an English, Math, & Science...and depending on your major you will have to take upper levels of those subjects, such as going through a pre-med route.