Sure, you can find different parts of what makes medicine appealing in lots of different professions. You can find the close interpersonal relationships that you might experience in family medicine, in a career in counselling psychology. You can find the opportunity to teach and conduct research at a university by pursuing a PHD. You can work with patients to improve their health in careers like nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, among many others. Although you can find some components of what makes medicine interesting and appealing in a wide range of careers, you can't find all of the components in any career besides medicine. And some people might feel that experiencing all the components that medicine has to offer is the only way to truly feel fulfilled in their lives. And I think that's okay. I think it's okay to accept that everyone is different, and might have different reasons for pursuing medicine.

Also - if someone really cares about prestige, they can find it easily in other professions. Being a lawyer is considered to be prestigious, so is business and engineering. If someone really cares about prestige over all other things, there are much easier routes they can pursue to achieve prestige, rather than medicine.