Regret After Leaving a Medical Career Behind

In a busy, public place, I didn’t want to broadcast that I was reading The Doctors Guide to Smart Career Alternatives and Retirement.

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I was genuinely curious as to why the guy, who has holding a baby boy on a Thursday afternoon in Nickelodeon Universe, would be interested in a book about leaving medicine.

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Regret After Leaving a Medical Career Behind

A book like this wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t a market of disenchanted doctors who would find some value in it.

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Physicians treat individuals directly, which should be more personally satisfying.

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Would the doctors who pick up this book feel the same way as he did after leaving a traditional medical career for good?

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One cannot simply calculate how many units of regret are about to be realized as the result of a particular decision.

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Abandoning one’s clinical career is not a career move to be taken lightly, nor is it easily reversible.

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Skills diminish, medical knowledge evolves rapidly, and you can’t just walk back into a doctor job after even a couple years off.

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There are other reasons a physician might regret a premature exit. I’ve been told some of us have large egos, and that those egos are strongly connected to our statuses as physicians.

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Regret After Leaving a Medical Career Behind

In a busy, public place, I didn’t want to broadcast that I was reading The Doctors Guide to Smart Career Alternatives and Retirement.

I was genuinely curious as to why the guy, who has holding a baby boy on a Thursday afternoon in Nickelodeon Universe, would be interested in a book about leaving medicine.

Regret After Leaving a Medical Career Behind

A book like this wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t a market of disenchanted doctors who would find some value in it.

Why Was I Reading That Book?

Physicians treat individuals directly, which should be more personally satisfying.

Physicians Help People

Would the doctors who pick up this book feel the same way as he did after leaving a traditional medical career for good?

Physicians Help People

One cannot simply calculate how many units of regret are about to be realized as the result of a particular decision.

Abandoning one’s clinical career is not a career move to be taken lightly, nor is it easily reversible.

Skills diminish, medical knowledge evolves rapidly, and you can’t just walk back into a doctor job after even a couple years off.

There are other reasons a physician might regret a premature exit. I’ve been told some of us have large egos, and that those egos are strongly connected to our statuses as physicians.

SWIPE UP NOW TO READ MORE

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