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EPISODE · Feb 18, 2025 · 49 MIN

What can we learn from all those "Why I quit medicine" videos on YouTube?

from On Becoming a Healer · host Saul J. Weiner, Stefan Kertesz

There are a lot of videos on YouTube that feature typically young physicians explaining why they decided to leave the profession after years of dedication and hard work.  For some it appears that they were so successful at building a social media presence and related businesses, that they quit medicine. Others seem to just want to share their experience in the hope it might help others. They describe how a sense of exhaustion, dreading work each day and discovering that it wasn't what they imagined when they dreamed of becoming a doctor drove them away.  What they have to say feels quite convincing, and thousands of comments affirm them.   At the same time, there is something missing. They rarely talk about their relationships with patients or how medicine, no matter how corrupted it is by profit seeking, really is a special and unique profession that is worth fighting for. We reflect on what to make of this blind spot, trying very hard not to sound preachy.  

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