Why did beneatha want to be a doctor?

She's got a monologue somewhere talking about it, she first wanted to become a doctor after seeing one of her friends get hurt when they were playing outside. She thought that he was going to die, but then the hospital came and sewed him up and saved his life and that's when she decided that that was what she was going to do.

Sir thomas more, venerated in the catholic church as saint thomas more, was an english lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted renaissance humanist. he was also a councillor to henry viii, and lord high chancellor of england from october 1529 to 16 may 1532. i found this information on wikipedia