Advice on the pursuit of medical school

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I think I kind of messed up my GCE A levels such that I've got a BBB for Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. However, I'm still keen on taking up medicine, I've read up on possible options like taking up Biomedical science first year in New Zealand universities like University of Auckland and Otago, or even taking up a medicine foundation year in Australia in places like Sydney, Melbourne and Newcastle(haven't considered on which yet).

I have been in the crossroads of whether if this is for me or not. Whether after all this I'm even cut out for this. I have volunteered many weeks in clinics and hospitals and found the work really something I like, I like the intellectual challenge in the form of solving problems with the variety of symptoms and tests to give the proper diagnosis and hence the proper prescriptions, and I have sat through some light surgeries and found it tedious yet interesting. And I do have the drive to help the less fortunate people and be at a position of easing the suffering of those that are sick and in pain.

On the front of the workload when it comes to being in medical school, I have talked to medical students that have been on their rounds in the hospital. The workload is high I would give it that, but I'm sure that I would live through it and see the day I graduate. I know that this is what I want to do, and I have thought about it over many months, and I know that it would cost my family quite a big sum of money and that is a reason for me to stick to the very end and graduate.

I hope you fellow doctors, medical students and even university student could give me some advice on this. I'm 18 now, and I'm about to decide on something that will decide my very future and I don't have many chances to fail as a failure now can be expensive.