Always good to watch your videos, Dr. Fightmaster, I really agree with you that is important if you are going on this journey into a profession to be doing it for the right reason(s). After 25 years of being a structured finance attorney, I know what burnout and the feeling is like to grind along working 80-hour weeks year after year after year and to feel that you are just spinning your wheels. As I get ready to go into medicine, entering medical school this year, I know that I am going to have to deal with the less-than-pleasant aspects of it from school, to residency and beyond. Yet every time, I remember that someday I will be a primary care physician for marginalized patients and get to serve our most vulnerable. Getting that privilege and honor is going to be the hallmark of my life's second act. I really enjoy your thoughts when you talk about medicine because I hear you telling the story of my years as an attorney. Keep up the great work!
Thank you Geoffrey! Sounds to me like you've got your eye on meaning in medicine. Excited for you. Medicine is just a stand in for me in what other people have in dentistry, journalism, or anything! All of us go through the same battle. Look forward to hearing how it goes for you.
Thank you so much for this. I have ran away from doing medicine for this exact reason, pursued engineering to feel like “not a failure”. Did that through COVID and hated it, started nursing in 2021, been working close to 2 years now, and that itch to become a MD comes one every time I see the badge. With my brother matching into internal medicine now, that feeling has only gotten stronger. I’m 26 and don’t feel accomplished with both careers I’ve pursued and fear medicine won’t do that for me either.
Medicine means a lot of things to different people. I definitely thought it would satisfy the meaning and purpose itch. For many people, it does! But I believe the key is really wanting it. If you don't really, like deep down, want to pursue medicine, it's hard to find it later. Wishing you luck in figuring out what's next :)
thanks, I decided not to go to medical school. I think I wanted to go into medicine to become respected. But, I didn't even respect myself. How sad is that? I am now a final year pharmacy student. The prospects are not that great, but at least I'm not over 200k in debt into something I don't want to do. I'll be just under half of that after I'm done, but I think medications and chemistry are still kind of cool. For what it's worth, I think that is not that bad. thanks for your video!
@@johnjeong7933 Seems like you examined your intentions well. Understanding that medicine can’t give you self respect is something a lot of people never realize. I feel my debt load could’ve been much worse. After. I’ll always enjoy understand biochemistry and chemistry too. Always cool to understand how things work.
What do you suggest for people who went to medical currently in residency and hate however in MASSIVE student loan debt (yes thats me lol). The debt is the only thing keeping me from quitting
@@khals1 Unfortunately, I don’t have a definitive answer. I have massive student loan debt too, which is an ongoing challenge to figure out. Ultimately though, I had to trust I’d figure out a way to pay it back, outside medicine, instead of staying inside of medicine and using that debt as my excuse to stay. I haven’t paid it off, but I am happier and doing more purposeful work, and I trust in the end that will solve the problem. I’ll keep you posted 😂
@@RyanFightmasterMD Thank you for this honest feedback. I am highly considering leaving and honestly the only reason really keeping me back is the massive debt I've accumulated
That’s the real question! Honestly I was too scared to go find out what I really wanted to do. Felt a lot of expectation that had built for many years and couldn’t get out from under that shadow. Really wanted to move to mountains and work in a bike shop, snowboard and mountain bike. Had a hard time believing that was worth pursuing over medicine… but it was! Because I wanted that. Took years to figure that out though.
@@RyanFightmasterMD Glad to hear you figured them out now. I asked that because I am actually going in the opposite direction and want to hear from people who choose to leave medicine
