Power
You won't have the same kind of power as a president of a major country. You won't even have the power of a petty dictator of a small country. You definitely won't have the kind of hypnotic power that Taylor Swift has over the masses. But you'll have a power that's pretty impressive: the power over life and death…at least sometimes.
Sure, you won't be a god or anything. If your tissue analysis reveals that a patient has some kind of incurable cancer, there won't be a whole lot you can do about it. However, your skills will help save lives.
While every single case won't be a matter of life and death, a good number might be. Being a pathologist is a big deal and a big responsibility, and you'll have the power to make a difference in the lives of many people throughout your career.
Now, you might be in the rank-and-file group, working in clinics or hospitals and helping to diagnose individual patients. Or you could be in some kind of research lab with the potential to find cures that could possibly save millions of patients all at the same time. (For the record, the lives of most research pathologists are a lot less glamorous than that.)
You might even help investigators solve crimes as a forensic pathologist. But don't get too excited about that either—the job isn't half as cool when there's not a snappy soundtrack included.
Still, wherever you land as a pathologist, you'll have the power to help, and that's pretty important.