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The Ultimate Suicide

Here’s the punchline: it isn’t going to get better by itself.

Ignoring how miserable and stressed you feel because “that’s medicine” or because of how terrified you are of disappointing those whom you love…isn’t going to make the problem go away.

The longer you walk on this journey without changing anything…the closer you get to the fate of the Doctors profiled in Dr Pamela Wible’s book Physician Suicide Letters — Answered.

Ah, but I’m different. They were weak/ unmotivated/insert diminishing adjective here.

No they weren’t.

They were just like you. Smart men and women who wanted to make a difference…but they ended up being broken by the system they’d dedicated themselves to serve.

That’s why 1 in every 4 Medics is reported as being severely depressed.

That’s why Doctors have the highest suicide rate of all professions.

And that’s why 400 qualified physicians commit suicide every year in the US.

Just a little more than 1 suicide every day.

Or to put it into perspective, 400 is about the size of a 1st year medical class.

So imagine 400 students crowding into a lecture hall on their first day of term…and then simultaneously slitting their wrists or blowing their brains out.

Yes, that’s a graphic image.

But the statistics show that this is exactly what’s happening…just protracted over a longer period of time.

What the numbers don’t show, however, is the number of Medics who don’t commit suicide…but are living lives of “quiet desperation”.

Doing their job, going through the motions, keeping the health care system ticking along…

Saving every life except their own, and never tapping into the full potential of who they were created to be.

That’s the ultimate suicide.

No, it isn’t Med School’s “fault” (not really).

Yes, you need to pay attention to how miserable you’re feeling…and commit to doing something about it.

Reading this blog is a step in the right direction.

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How To Drop Out of Medicine

How To Drop Out Of Medicine

You need to drop out of medical school, right now.

And if you don’t need to…then this blog isn’t for you.

Instead it’s for those who feel frustrated, burnt out, disillusioned, out of options, overwhelmed and right at the end of the line.

It’s for those who joined medical school because they wanted to make a difference/ make their parents proud/ make the most of the good grades they got in school/ make sick people better…

…and then found themselves with various addictions, on their third suicide attempt, with no joy, no purpose and trapped in a pressure cooker of debt, depression, and the expectations of other people.

This blog is for those who feel that they’d “rather die than face the disappointment of those around them”.

This blog is for those who know — deep in their marrow — that something needs to change.

Something. Anything. You’re not sure of what, exactly. You only know that you can’t keep living the way you have been any longer in this “thing” called medical school.

That’s where I was the first time I got kicked out of medical school in 2003.

And having gone through this experience, “survived” it, and coached others in how to make their escape over the last decade…I’m hoping this book gives you 2 things I desperately needed all those years ago.

Hope…and a compass.

Hope, because when you’re under the weight of your own misery, financial obligations, family expectations, no sleep, uninspiring lectures, unrelenting test schedules…you can feel as if you have no way out other than to end your own life.

Hopefully this blog will play a part in shining a light on all the options and possibilities that you can’t see right now.

And once you’ve seen what’s possible, I hope this blog will serve as a compass… to guide you from where you are, to where you want to be.

It’s not a map, because the terrain of each person’s experience is different.

But wherever you are, and whatever you’re feeling right now, How To Drop Out Of Medicine will give you the tools and mental&emotional frameworks to help you successfully navigate whatever you’re facing.

You’ve been talking about making a change, pursuing your dreams and dropping out of Med School for months and even years.

How To Drop Out Of Medicine is your personal guide to help you do this.