A Physician/surgeon already puts in too many hours of work (I've known a neurosurgeon who worked 100 hours/week) so it's going to be pretty difficult to work in Physics as well
I'm browsing through some acceptances posted by prospective graduate students here: http://www.physicsgre.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4274
and there are some guys with very close to 4.0 GPAs and great GRE scores along with pretty good research experiences and letters of recommendations that are...
I am in a similar predicament...I'm in my senior year as a Physics major and my overall cumulative GPA is 2.53 but my math/science GPA is 3.8.
Do graduate schools look at the overall cumulative GPA, or just the GPA for the subjects related to your field of study? If I miss the GPA cutoff...