Does it matter what degree I have?

I currently work at a microbiology laboratory and I am completing my microbiology degree. I have been searching myself a long time and really want to go to medical school and take with me what I have learned and put it to use to help people. I am half-way complete with my degree and so far have a pretty good GPA 3.67 ( I think that is a good GPA ). Do you feel that a microbiology degree would be at all helpful in my getting accepted? I am 27 and will finish when I am close to 30 and then apply to local medical schools. I was looking at schools offering both MD and DO. If I do not get in I will just continue and get my PhD in molecular microbiology but for many years I wanted to become a doctor and I just feel that is really what will make me happy. I just am at that age I feel life is far too short and I do not just want to settle for anything. I was a nursing major at one point but switched to science because I wanted more, but after being involved with testing pathogens, and knowing what they do to people, it would be awesome to be able to be there on the front line with people and be able to make a difference.
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