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MIT neurosurgeon explains why he quit medicine (youtu.be)

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This is pretty slow, especially the first 15ish, but he eventually gets into what was actually helping his patients (vegan diet, exercise, community support) instead of surgery, how this began to make it feel wrong to do the surgeries he had been doing, and why that made him quit.

Spoiler: he found the need to make money for the hospital system to be conflicting with what was best for his patients.

None of this was really new to me and probably won't be too you either, but it was nice to hear a neurosurgeon talking about how fucked the medical system is, even if it's in relatively bland language.

I realize it's not really a podcast, but there's not enough visual component to really count for another community, so I'm posting it here. Please lmk if it should be somewhere else.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I just got recommended this too. Very good perspective on the medical system towards the middle.

He shied away from the obvious real problem (and made a vague gesture towards "the system"), but I'm hoping he will grow a bit more and think about the things he's learned in a broader context. And hopefully share it with his audience.

He also very abstractly pointed towards the idea that all the attributes and habits that his healed patients had were much more likely to be found in financially stable people. But I think he needs a nudge in that direction.

Edit: also, I watched this on 2x speed because he talks very slowly, if that will help someone get through it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Honestly for a surgeon, a neurosurgeon at that, he's got a lot more empathy and awareness so hopefully he'll eventually get a Che Guevara moment where it all clicks