“There are no coincidences!”
[This is a Guest Post]
“thank you ….the universe is always guiding me…and i will be very honest:
i have been out of an IM residency only six years. throughout medical school and residency i felt uncertain/not confident in my knowledge base of medicine, but i chose im by default…nothing else jumped out at me. outpatient clinic during residency was a huge disappointment (seeing pts every 10-15 minutes was not what i signed up for)….so i postponed actually practicing for about 4 yrs, and then i only got into it as nutritional/lifestyle change coach. nonetheless, i started practicing in an inner-city medicaid clinic, but after a year and a half….I’M DONE. I’M DONE, DONE, DONE!! i loved touching my pts…i loved talking to them and teaching/counseling….but i don’t care about m11q’s, disability forms, and potassium levels…..and i especially hate that these things took me away from my husband and my two babies. i was just another worker-bee, clearly fighting the hustle everyone else had down pat. but even though my heart left medicine 6 yrs ago…i feel scared to leave…..what the heck am i going to do? how am i going to help people now? if medicine was the noblest of professions, am i done for? this is all i have known since the 10th grade…..
i will end the ramble now…thank you for your patience….warmly, -yc”
