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[NDMD]

I felt that “wait what he actually likes rounding??” deep in my soul and my tired feet

[RiesterMeister]

I am a radiologist myself and I would totally recommend it. I mean all these night shifts during residency were really grinding my gears but now I am a specialist, can work whereever I want and can finally leave work on time. And I earn proper money. And still I could do something else if I get fed up. So getting through training is tough yeah, but it gives you experience, certain skills and more freedom in the end. And oh yeah one of the most striking things in radiology is not working on a ward and not having to do rounds. I never heard anyone enjoying until now

[aileenandrea___]

Time isn’t “wasted”— they’ve gained insight, wisdom, clarity. I’m back in college in my 30’s. I don’t feel like I wasted my 20’s. I didn’t know what I wanted to do as a career. Now I do. 🤷‍♀️

[reneewright]

As a neonatal nurse I can fully relate and agree. Medicine and the healthcare field in general does take a lot of time out of your life but at the end of the day I believe with everything in me a nursing career was what I was called to do. In my 11 years of nursing I have experienced burnout especially after Covid and I’ve had to take breaks in my career. Nursing is a little more flexible that being a physician due to the fact with can always change our specialty. Which is what I did. I went from being a hospice nurse to a neonatal nurse. Love your videos Dr. Cellini and I couldn’t agree more with what you said on this topic!

[laithhaddad]

"Security... it's secure" - Dr. Cellini

Favorite line by far, even better with the facial expressions.

[anna.banana]

Tbh, Dr. SantiagoAQ was (and ofc still is) one of my biggest role models. Although I firmly believe other people shouldn't ricochet your trajectory in life, watching his video about quitting medicine made me rethink my goals significantly, considering that I sometimes felt like a fish out of water in this world of medicine!
Thank you for this video, Dr. Cellini; it's amazing to have new perspectives. Medicine isn't easy (and neither is any career you have to put work into). At the end of the day, we choose our own metric :)

[sewpungyow]

Santiago would have been an amazing doctor, but he's also a fantastic educator and I will continue watching his content to improve my med school studies. 100% recommend his channle

[sallythibodeaux]

I recently found your channel and I enjoy it very much! I’m a Retired Nurse currently employed as an Inpatient Medical Coder and I can relate to many topics you share. Please continue, have a great day!

[jjc]

Welcome back!! Can’t wait for the next Cellini Rounds, been missing it

[chase.parsley]

If you see this, just know we’ll be here waiting for you to come back Cellini 🙏🏻 I love going back and watching your videos to motivate me throughout school.

[LJStability]

I'm glad this conversation was brought up. I went through this same existential agnst through my MD PhD training. Man, it was really, really hard at times. I had the same arguments in my head, "Why do research? I could just go into medicine and earn a lot more money. This is bullshit!". But I'm so thankful I didn't give up and I went through that period in my life. After entering medicine, I realized I had so much more freedom and value I could provide people because of my research background and, honestly, just being able to write papers, think, and learn.

As I now begin to transition to residency and (hopefully) match, I've come to the conclusion that the main issue with most physicians is the lack of having extra skills that can give them value or ways to be okay with making less money. I actually had a researcher and a physician give me excellent advice about how leveraging your money can be a great way of buying your time. Insteand of making more money in the clinic, you can take a pay cut in that area but invest in research or other pursuits that can make up for the lost income and then some. It sounds counter intuitive, but it really showed me how it's easy to feel the need to be like everyone else or to feel this need to somehow earn more money. Truly, I rather earn less and still be happy if it means I feel better about my job, still help patients, and pursue my other interests that I can leverage for professional or financial growth.

It's been a long journey and I'm still learning a lot as I go through. But my main advice for people is not to rush the process or feel like you have to be like everyone else. If you want to be more balanced but see less patients, do it man. Be happy and focus on the quality of your care than simply how much you can bill. Use your other interests to leverage other opportunities that can help you succeed on your own terms. I know this isn't easy for every specialty to do, but it does give a different perspective on finding ways to leverage your money to give you time in medicine. Keep strong everyone.

[robertmines]

Hey great video! However, this is just a production note. I noticed that you had a pulsing pattern on the upper left corner of the video. I have noticed this in my wife's videos. There are certain lighting settings especially with cheaper ring lights that cause waves of lighter and darker light to appear in your videos. I think it has to do with how these ring lights work since they seem to just flicker at faster or slower speeds to control the brightness rather than turning some of the light sources completely off. I have found that increasing the light intensity from them (and possibly slowing your camera shutter speed) can stop the pulsing pattern from occurring. Once again, great video and I'm glad to have you back.

[sorj]

Hi Dr. Cellini, I'm starting the MD here in Australia in 2 weeks time. Your videos have been hugely inspirational to me, I'm really considering radiology as a career option! Prior to that was anaesthesia (I am also a pharmacist so I thought the drugs/physiology combo would be cool) but the idea of being able to read these super cool studies from home but also do really quick and effective (and cool!) procedures like in interventional radiology can give me that hands on fix that I think I'd love. Thanks for not throwing in the towel despite your youtube success, it's really nice to see someone stick with medicine among all the online negativity around the profession (which I've noticed seems to mostly come from juniors??). Keep it up :)

[sarahcrain]

I am currently in the hospital. Due to a infection in my tunneled PICC. The hospitalist assigned to my care is a young guy. Early to mid 40s. He told me the other day, that Friday will be his last day at UAB Hospital. Saturday he is packing his things and moving to North Carolina and quitting medicine.

[reneewilliams]

Yes all work requires sacrifice so perhaps people need to find the “thing” or the work that they are most willing to sacrifice for. It’s a blessing to do work that you actually enjoy at least most of the time. That’s a dream life in my opinion.

[Ms.Opinionated]

Welcome back Dr. C! Was wondering where you were?! :-)

[mariamckenna]

He sounds just like he did it have it in him and it's wonderful that he did deep soul searching which many people do not do.

[lrx]

This is my favorite newly found channel. Pharmacist here, and totally relate!!!

[Swim-M]

“I mean security… it’s secure!”
Dr. C, -2023 😂

[MrMasionstorm]

I probably ran though all or most of your YouTube videos in like under two weeks great stuff man what were the difficulties during college courses and did you have to do a 3 to 7 year residency rotation at a hospital or is it shorter or longer then that?