ANOTHER DOCTOR QUITS? My Thoughts on Kristina Braly Quitting Medicine
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2022
- Another one bites the dust...sort of! @kristinabraly posted this video this week and I was kind of shocked at first! But then I watched it and totally understand where she's coming from. In this video, I break down Kristina's plan for quitting Anesthesia and give you my thoughts! Enjoy.
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The stress of nursing & healthcare is hard to explain to the non healthcare world... Healthcare providers are literally sacrificing their health and longevity to care for others, and in turn we get mediocre wages, high student loans, and pizza parties.
@Abby Rae that's because people in those professions often deal with inanimate objects as the focus of the job, not people.
I quit nursing after 13 years
The pay is the least kmportant part. even in canada, where psws are getting 30$ an hour, there are massive labor shortages. The government tried to pay their way through labor losses, but what they really wanted was to work an 8 hour shift and go home.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, says "Thank You For Your Service" like pizza that went cold while you were working.
Not the pizza parties 😂😂 FR though.
Amazing insight as always! You said things I wanted to say but didn’t. Thanks for a great react Dr. Cellini!
wow what a great comment. Great to see so much doc to doc support!
@kristina, I’m a Physician Assistant, I felt everything you had to say so much. I’ve been talking to colleagues about how much the pandemic shifted medicine. I recently left my job that was making me feel unappreciated and overworked. I am going to start a new job in a few weeks, I’ll be working from home and get to pick my days and hours. I waited for this unicorn job. I already feel the weight being lifted off my shoulders.
@@amberj3941 congrats on your new job!! If you have a free moment could you please explain your new situation a little more, are you talking about a WFH PA position?
Love Dr. C. & Dr. B. You each have a unique perspective into medical 🚑 in which I have no experience.
@@amberj3941 wow nice. Good for you. You did the right thing. Just curious, what job can you do from home as a PA? Are you seeing patients through zoom calls or something like that?
I'm an ER doc and trust me, all of us are trying to find a way out, but too bad we are all too old to become software engineers
EDIT: I live in a tech-centric city on the West Coast. When all your engineering friends go on way more vacations than you do annually, get 3 to 4-month paid paternity leave, work from home while watching their kids, have beer in the fridge at work, get more "outdoor recreation" fund to spend than your CME, and almost all have rental properties and you don't, you'll try to look for a way out especially when you seem to work so much harder. Don't be fooled by the 200 or 300K salary of a doctor. Look up the "compensation package" not salary of a mid-level software engineer at a major tech company. I know I know, it's not easy to get into Google or Facebook, but even at 300K, my salary is still below a mid level engineer.
Totally!
Look into some rural areas that are desperate for doctors. I live in Amador county and it’s next to impossible to find a primary care doctor, and forget about specialists, they don’t exist up here, but it is a nice place to live and for the time being I’ll drive to UC Davis for myself and my kids. Ironically my husband works at Stanford, but in construction, but of course our insurance isn’t contracted with Stanford currently.
Wrong, software engineers work as hard as doctors and have a bigger burnout rate, also I know doctors making well over 1 million dollars and they aren’t in private practice
Not all engineers work at google mate or any of the big tech firms and its all layoffs galore now. You must live close to a very niche calibre of engineer and that says something because most engineers dont make more than 80k. Software programmers also aren't considered engineers.
Cant you set up your own private practice??
She quit her current job but is still staying in medicine. These are 2 totally different things.
Exactly
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Agree
This makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, not every doctor has multiple sources of income and a partner with as high a salary as hers. This is privilege talking in a way as not everyone has the luxury to quit medicine due to burn out
He’s ortho his Salary is way higher than hers, probably double
Exactly! She has a husband who is a significantly high earner, she can afford to walk away. Not every single doctor will have the same option to do so.
um there are plenty who quit without salary backing them, and plenty of nurses as well. this comment is ignorant
@@rahmascorner3517 I never said no one quits without a backing salary. What I DID say is that she is lucky to have that position of privilege that many don't have which makes it harder for them to 'quit medicine'. Please read comments carefully before calling them ignorant. I too am a doctor and well aware of the challenges in medicine
Privilege?? Seriously? You knocking someone who invested nearly a decade in further education to provide top-notch healthcare? As a doctor you should know better. Privilige is being born into money, my friend. Please choose your words more carefully. Just because someone earns more than you is not a reason to call the privilege card. If you're not careful it will just make you sound envious.
Yes, one hundred percent where she is at. I quit my full time W2 job in anesthesia a couple months ago. I now do 1099 private practice a few days a week when I want. I work on my side hobbies and social media a few days a week. I take vacation when I want, control my schedule and life. Finally having that work/life balance that people theorize about.
That's awesome. I'm truly happy for you 🙂
Not a theory no more. It is reality for you now.
At the end of the day, it's the hospital administrators that are responsible for the huge shift in healthcare professionals leaving their jobs. I remember being laid off twice before becoming a nurse and my perspective of being an employee has changed drastically since then. I currently work 20 hours a week and it's been the best decision I've ever made for my mental health.
Awesome!!! What position?
@@breklein3338 I'm an ED nurse.
Your first sentence is the most apt one on this comment scroll.
In most countries, it's not only hospital administrators but also government policies and bureaucrats who are responsible for physician burnout.
What do you do about insurance ? Just curious as that has always trapped me in my 40 hr week.
It makes sense to be the boss of you
As someone who is starting med school this fall, the trend of social media physicians quitting/significantly reducing their workload in this field is concerning, because so many premeds get the advice from seasoned physicians that medicine is not worth it, to run away while you can, to get yourself in a better career, etc. While I agree that there's definitely some bright-eyed premeds who feel like medicine is the noblest of callings, the amount of pushback from the other end is also worrying especially considering how each year it gets harder to get into medical school (higher test score averages, more extracurriculars, publications, etc...). Seeing these physicians get their foothold into medicine but then cut back/quit when they have financial security from other sources sends a general message that makes me apprehensive!
I totally see where your concerns are from. However remember with all respect, a lot of them are in a position that rather saying “quit” i would say they are “retiring” from medicine. One they have worked years to this point they can just walk away with the FU money, or they chose to because the lifestyle/ work load is not as nice. (In my opinion with all respect, being an outpatient anesthesiologist is the sweet gig that somewhat as a “spoiled physician”.
Some of them built up a business to leave medicine(such as Ali), some has a high earning spouse as well as side gig (such as the one mentioned here).... so I beg the true question (maybe that’s yours as well) is: Would you Choose medicine again if you could start over? ... Nowadays “quit” has so many meanings depends on how you look at it. Just my 2cents
I feel like it's a waste of opportunities. Many people wanted to get into medical school but couldn't. Yet people who went through it are wanting out. I might not know what I'm talking about since I am not a doctor. Didn't you sign up for medical school because you knew what it's gonna be like, burning out serving others, and you still wanted to do just that for the rest of your life?
Another way to look at this is that these physicians changing to part time work means several things: there is greater opportunity for advancement as those hours can then be picked up by other physicians who have been waiting for positions that would have otherwise been unavailable; they are not leaving the profession entirely and hence their expertise can still benefit upcoming physicians; by changing the way they work they retain a passion for their jobs, which makes them better role models and teachers, as well as better clinicians for their patients.
I think that the way doctors are trained can be absolutely brutal with the 24hr shifts and expecting someone to emerge from that with no burnout issues at all is unrealistic. Can they retain the passion for their profession? Absolutely. Encouraging them to prioritise good mental health and ensure longevity of practice should help keep that passion alive and reduce the likelihood of burnout.
Wellness amongst the medical field has long been under-appreciated
@@gigracer Oh I'm not underappreciating the stance on overall wellness in the medical workforce. My concern isn't so much that they shouldn't do so, but rather a comment on the overall state of the medical training path. My experience on the other end of the medical education side of things is that, clearly with overworked, overburdened physicians, such as those who need to take cases far and wide for their business as Dr. Braly would have had to, compounded with the increasing competitiveness into getting a medical degree, the physician shortage is only worsening and not for lack of those interested in pursuing the field. Osteopathic and for profit medical schools are popping up in every which corner of the US with questionable quality but residency spots aren't opening at a similar rate. I'm not in the position to judge a physician for their choice for their best life, only that this is a symptom of a larger issue in what seems to be a straining if not collapsing structure in place for medical training.
@@HoanNguyen-xf6zl I do see your point here. Although I know they are doing it because it works best for them and their family, I can’t help but think of all the students who really wanted to become physicians and didn’t get an interview and then others that got the chance are quitting. It’s a little sad
I really understand her situation. I worked in a Trauma I.C.U. On occasion I would get pulled to a pediatric or cardiac I.C.U. I have no experience working with kids or patients post CABG patients. This is a dangerous situation. As medicine as become more specialized you can’t just bounce around from place to place
I love your understanding on her decision. It's TRUE. Medicine will burn you out. I'm a critical care PA and am already feeling it after only 4-5 years. The hospitals (most) will just continue to take take take. Everyones first priority should be their happiness and mental health
Hey Doc. NJ Anesthesiologist here. COVID was a nightmare for us all. I left my hospital in 2021 after 12 years. I too do per diem and I love it. I have time to enjoy my life now. I totally understand her.
My husband had a massive stroke in Feb 2020 and finding good home care has been like pulling teeth. And the attitudes are horrible! I went to nursing school and didn't graduate. 10 years ago I thought about returning, but realized I didn't want to deal with the stress and workload. I ended up working in a funeral home and loved the families!
Thank you guys! You guys are the revolutionaries in medicine, agents of change in medicine! There should not be burn outs in the pursuit to becoming a doctor! Toxic people and organizations in the healthcare systems must go!
YES. TOXIC PEOPLE AND ADMINISTRATION. THATS WHY I LEFT.
big shout out to Kristina. And shout out to you, Dr. Cellini! I love the support for your fellow docs. As someone who is currently studying for the MCAT and applying to med school, I truly understand why only a select few follow this path. There are stretches of intense stress, pressure, and isolation all to make it to the end goal. All of the healthcare workers that put their lives on the line during this pandemic are sadly not appreciated enough in our society. It's everyone's right to course correct or find ways to make their lives better----it doesn't mean you no longer care about your patients or you originally made the wrong decision. People are too simple-minded on this issue.
One piece that I feel is worth mentioning is KB had already reduced her hours down to 3 days a week....noting the reduced schedule allowed her to keep her full benefits. At the time of hearing that I thought that was pretty amazing. Her employer was willing to be flexible and work with her new demands of a 2nd child, wanting to further her RUclips career, etc. Most employers would not be that accommodating.....so I was taken back at her comments regarding lack of flexibility and understanding that one faces in the medical community.
Being flexible to a degree. 3 days a week is still full time in the healthcare perspective (12 hours each day)- I’m a single parent of 4 and 12 hours 3 days a week is still draining as heck. They might have let her cut back but not for her YT side gig- she was working until later in the evenings/nights. Didn’t see her kids as much. She took an extended maternity leave which she does have the right to do so.
Healthcare is definitely not as flexible as people think.
@@deafhealthcare5220 I agree
Totally, 3 days a week is part time work, regardless of the profession or type of work. A lot of people like to complain about their "chosen" profession, as if it was forced upon them. We do live in a free society.
@@helisean10 Exactly. It's privilege to be a physician. It's also a privilege to be able to significantly reduce their hours and/or quit all together. Because her husband brings in the money to allow her to do so. No shout out by her for her husband. Another wasted slot in med school for someone that was going to make a strong run in the profession. Nothing to celebrate.
The best way to not to burn out is to not need your job in the first place. At university, I knew a chemistry and a physics professor who were paid $1.00 a year by the university. They both came from very wealthy families. The chemistry professor even gave out prizes to his best performing students!
Locum life is the best as a doctor! In the UK there's a huge shift with more and more of us aiming to work purely as locums as our employer (the NHS) treats its employees worse and worse every year it seems. I loved the freedom of locum work for a few years, although now I have to suck it up for a few years of radiology residency until the option of locum life as an attending.
I say good for her. She still does anesthesiology but on her schedule. I cant imagine what all the pandemic has done to so many health care workers. But she was able to start with the initial no! She sure looks happy. I'm happy for her and always happy to see u!
So cool to see two top RUclips accounts overlap. Both of you are awesome and appreciated. Hope you both can find balance and happiness!
Followed Kristina Braly for several years. Love 💞 her & the variety she brings to her channel 🎥
There’s jobs that are so critical to our society, like doctors, that we should be giving those people literally everything they want in order to keep them working. Double their pay, give them unlimited vacation days, reduce their hours, provide them the best benefits in the world. Anything, ANYTHING to ensure that we have enough skilled workers so that our society doesn’t crumble. I don’t understand these companies that just lets these critical people walk away. I’m really worried about a future where we can’t get basic needs because no one is willing to do those jobs, because companies pushed all the people out
Hi Dr. Cellini! I would love to see another video focusing on why you want to stay in medicine long term (even if it’s part time as you describe). I’m in a group of premed students applying to medical school but unfortunately there is a lot of talk about the students being told by physicians to stray away from medicine 😒
As someone who is going to pre med soon, it’ll be great if you can give more insight into why they’re being told to stray away from medicine.
Nurse of a year and 8 months now. If I could rewind my life I would have never went into nursing. I just finished 3 12s which were 14s cause I could barely chart the entire night. I work on an Ortho/ trauma floor and we are one large unit with up to 56 beds. We had 8 nurses including our charge taking care of 49 patients, our charge had 4 most of the night and got a trauma admit in the morning. For the whole unit we had 2 NACS for the first 4 hours, 1 for the second 4, and none the last 4. Many of our patients require the nurse to have lower ratio d/t them being an ICU transfer, a specific procedure that requires Q1h checks and cares like our DIEP's, and then we have a plenty of psych overflow/ neuro/ dementia/ delirious patients but we are not given this luxury. Also, we often have a patient or two that really should be in the ICU instead one of us with 5 other patients is responsible for them essentially until they code cause we don't have the infrastructure and staff to provide the proper amount of intensive care for our city. Almost all of our patients have compromised mobility d/t them having fractures or being pos-op and we have to have more than one person for many of their cares. I cannot begin to explain how overwhelming it is to adequately take care of this many people. With this in mind we are not payed a single dime more outside of getting overtime from missing lunch/ breaks which we do essentially every night. We risk our license and we risk our well-being/ safety w/ violent/ confused patients every night. My team is seriously amazing and we have had no choice but to create an environment where teamwork is essential but we have been spent since the day I started. It's hardly fulfilling anymore because it takes so much effort to just keep our floor afloat. I'm behind on pain meds all the time because I'm just trying to keep an elderly women also in pain w/ dementia and delirium from hopping out of bed or help another caregiver w/ their patient. I'm not satisfied with the care I provide, my patients are frustrated, I'm frustrated and exhausted, and when I do have that special moment of truly caring for your patients it's more just a sigh of relief cause I'm too tired to even soak in a happy moment. At least half our staff is in some form of therapy for physical and mental reasons. I had a locums NAC our last night of the weekend and she broke down and filed a report regarding the outrageous ratio that we had to deal w/ and I told her it was so nice to hear from an outside perspective of how bad it truly is. I feel like a frog that's slowing being boiled and to have someone else hop in the water and shout that we're getting stiff fucked like we are at least justifies my negativity that I feel I hold almost all my waking hours. Our healthcare system is absolutely broken and I want to pay forward unending gratitude to any Doctor, Nurse, NAC, Tech, Sitter, Tele-sitter, Security officer, pharmacist, lab worker, and anyone I missed involved in this hellhole.
I’m a retired RN who worked acute care and trauma for 45 years. I understand what you are saying. COVID really overwhelmed the lives of hospital nurses, doctors and others who care for the never ending surge of patients.
I give you all my respect and keep you in my prayers. God bless…
Totally agree! Doing the same. Tried for years to work part time or just full time in nursing as an LPN. Had to go with an agency to make it happen. Worth it for self care.
I am in Australia, but we have locuming here as well. The beauty of locuming is definitely the ability to pick and choose where and when you go, but also the ability to just practice medicine and see patients without being involved in the politics or management.
I'm a Locum and it's awesome 🎉 I feel more valued because the places really need me and there's no workplace/ corporate drama.
Thats exactly what i love about being a travel rad tech. I go in to a facility to help them, do my job well for 3 months then leave. No drama. No administration bs. No stupid competencies to do. Then its adios!
I am so glad I chose a Dentistry. It is very close to medicine and the amount of flexibility you have after you finish a school is amazing.
it's close to medicine and a flexible career but you're restricted to only doing dental work, so not as flexible in terms of what you can practice. Some people love it, others don't.
@@abdulansari95 You can specialize. My boss is a dentist and anesthesiologist. His cases are interesting
You can not have the freedom to work remote and it a physically challenging career. These are very important too. We want freedom in time and place!
@@Sophie3647s Dentist anesthesiologists almost always provide anesthesia only for dental procedures and oral and maxillofacial surgery. Physician anesthesiologists are much more skilled in critical care, cardiac anesthesia, OB, pain management etc..
Dentistry is not flexible unless u r the owner
This is so true! Even if what you’re passionate about doesn’t make u rich u should still pursue it! well...as long as your part time job is good enough to pay the bills/ provide insurance for your family. Thanks for another gr8 video Dr. Cellini! You’re rad!
The ultimate goal here is being your own boss. Being a true boss. This means not having an emplyer and not even having partners in private practice. Senior partners are technically your "bosses." Tell them you want 6 months off and see what your partners do to you. Insurance is your boss as well since it dictates how you practice. You can only truly achieve your own boss status in fields like psychiatry where you can work whenever and wherever solo practicing and not even accepting insurance, working directly with patients without ANY middleman not even needing a receptionist or nurse
So I’m definitely seeing PRN for doctors means you work when you want. As x-ray techs, PRN means they schedule you when you’re needed, you don’t make your schedule. So you can work a 40 hour plus week or less just depending on what’s going on.
For pharmacists PRN shifts they schedule you as needed but you have the ability to accept or deny shifts so if you only wanted to pick up 2-3 days during someone's week long vacation instead of the entire week, you could!
Prn for nurses is similar to what happy pharm life said. You have a minimum number of hours you need to work.. in my facility it is 36 hours per 6/week schedule. They email you with the “needs” you pick up what you want.
Find another facility that gives you the flexibility. We are not slaves to administrators penny pinching their way to 6 figure bonuses at the end of the year
Such a good video. As physician careers change for better or worse, flexibility should be one area where the wants and needs of a physician should be taken into account.
CT tech here. I def got hospital burn out and moved to outpatient setting. I only work 4 long days, and I love it. It has kept me loving what I do. I stayed PRN at the hospital, and thankfully they've let me pick and choose when I want to work, I never get scheduled becuase they know I have another job. I'm glad I wasn't there during the pandemic full time, lots of techs left the department and those that remained were totally hanging on by a thread. I've worked at the hospital over the course of the pandemic, but in a way where it didn't leave me burned out as well. Much of the burn out came from not getting a sufficient raises, and being short staffed. Short staff was definitely directly related to pay, and as the pandemic rolled out it made matters worse.
I worked in Healthcare 36 years..loved it immensely but yes..burnout is real! It doesn't mean you don't care..if anything..you care sooo much and want all of it to go perfectly! Kristina has a good balance now.
I love Dr. Braly, was shocked too but if she's happy, I'm happy for her
Same!
Exactly Doc. Part of the reason people get so burnt out is because they feel they are not in control of their lives, work and use of their time . Dr Braly has agency in this situation and has been able to craft her life in alignment with her desires and vision for her life. She loves her job but her fulfilment is tied to her creative expression as well . I love your videos.
She didn't quit medicine! The title is deceiving. I don't love that.
I agree!!
Gets more money tho
Welcome to RUclips.
If her husband is not Orthopaedician, she will still continue to work . What a BS
Hannah, are you a surgeon or physician? Or are you a premed student that’s just interested in medicine?
Choice, freedom, and flexibility sounds wonderful💞 I'm happy for your friend deciding to do what she had to do!
As a nurse, things staff asked for from housekeeping, laundry on up as the pandemic got worse became an offering from administration...hummmm. also feel admin gives staff trickled info which is terrible...makes staff feel distrusting.
Flexibility is definitely a theme across industries but it’s really interesting to see the viewpoint in medicine as someone who works in corporate America
Great video. Echoing another comment, techs take whatever PRN they’re given so maybe less control. My goal as US tech is to combine part-time with PRN - not for flexibility or time off but to stay skilled in range of specialties: vascular, ob/gyn, general, procedures (hospital).
I like that
I retired a few years ago (@55) when I saw the shift that was occurring with Covid 19. I was privileged to have married a high earning doctor wife, to have built a large profitable practice over 20+ years (two associates, and 13 team members), then I started and grew (close to 10 years) a Managed Care Organization (think 20+ specialist, 20+ locations, and multiple states). I left "cold turkey" and my wife saw just how happy I was with so much less busyness, reduced stress with the risk associated with it all, all the difficult conversations, my wife decided to walk away as well. Now to address the stress of moving to a sunnier climate 😎
Anesthesiology is awesome. As a hobbyist, I love practicing on my friends and family member on the weekends🤣
This is a super healthy work-life balance! This is what I aspire to as a hcw (RN). I think a lot of us feel we have to live at the hospital to be successful or "good" at our jobs but I'm glad this rhetoric is transforming in healthcare! You do not have to work 80 hours a week if you are a doctor or nurse and you aren't a worse HCW if you work part-time or less!
My sister is a CRNA and was layed off during the pandemic and went to work in NY at the peak of covid. She made a lot of money during that time but she was very happy when her surgery center opened back up.
I'm a teacher and work 7:30 to 5 plus extra hours and classes. That's to make ends meet... I know it's been tough on you guys too, but these videos kinda give me hope of a better life! Because this is definitely not it! 💕
Trouble with the health care industry is that it’s stuck in the past century when it comes to staffing issues plus it’s totally inflexible - which is why so many people quit. When I retired from the corporate world (City Hall) I went to work at a local hospital as I also had health care experience: literally a week into the job the local bus timetable was changed meaning I couldn’t get to work for 7am any more - 7.30am was the earliest I could start. I explained this to hospital management and offered to work 30 mins extra at the end of my shift to make up for the 30 mins that I’d missed, but they wouldn’t even consider it. So I quit. I didn’t need to work, I just wanted to help out my community after I retired but when I saw how inflexible they were and their attitude to their workforce, I decided I’d never work in the health industry again.
I agree that healthcare workers and practices have been hit so hard. Sacrifices made on behalf of the patient and community and not knowing what is to come tomorrow. I work in a practice with accounts receivable and the affects are felt. It will take years to recover. Thank you providers and medical staff.
Very interesting. As a teacher I learned that people who chose medical professions are likely to be high creatives as well. Lots of doctors are also musicians, artists, poets, etc. As examples I have a former student who is an actor and independent film maker, and another who is a doctor, gymnast, and actor as well as professional opera singer - and they aren’t as unusual as people might think.
Love the vid. What are your tips for me, a freshman halfway through that wants to become a Pediatric Cardiologist?
Going PRN is the best decision I’ve ever made and honestly you make more. Yes 🙌 the freedom is amazing
Omg what Dr. Braly is doing is amazing!!!!! I should get into locum tenens as a doctor, after I pass step 2 CK 😂. Now which specialties are more amenable to freelance medicine?
Dr. C, Kristina's husband just started his own practice and was doing Call in 2021. 2 daughters age 1 and 4 yrs old. Flight Attendants and crews were essential too. One Love
Working smarter not harder. I worked in Medical Oncology for almost three years. After I resigned (for personal reasons), three people were hired full-time to take on the workload that had previously been my sole responsibility. I feel like a lot of lip service is given to taking care of the people on the frontlines, so that they can continue to be caregivers. Adequate medical staff 'cover' is a big bit of that, too.
Did you say her husband was an orthopedic surgeon? Well that helps tons! She is shining bright! Good for her!
I love this video. The goal for me is to retire as a physician by 45-50, and I am setting up myself for that with investments, and trying to get other sources of income. Being able to work when you want to work is the name of the game, but freedom is the goal.
It's not just your generation that values freedom! There are always some people willing to take that risk and make their way independently. Good luck to you both!
I lost my full time CT Tech job over the clot shot. Sooo, I started traveling. I go where I want for 13 weeks. See the country and get paid pretty good. I come home between assignments for as long as i want to before signing up for another assignment. Its been such a game changer. Burnout in healthcare is real and the pandemic exacerbated it
With so many states criminalizing doctors who provide women with medical care then no way would I be a physician in those states. Criminalizing medicine is an idea which can hardly be a good idea.
I totally get this. If only other profession could be this way.
In my apartment building I have a chef, a graphic artist and a personal trainer. All of them work whenever they want and while it may not work for everyone it seems to work for them. All are single males and have zero family commitments and I’ve never seen them in any long term relationships either. I guess their costs must be low for them to maintain that lifestyle of working when they want to.
Some healthcare workers also lost their jobs, that was scary too. Not knowing when you’ll be able to work next but also knowing your job could be incredibly dangerous when you get back, etc. I’ve had a toddler during the pandemic as well that in itself was hard. I felt bad keeping us home but a family member licking random things and putting his hands on everything didn’t feel too safe hahah
Health care workers lost their jobs due to forced coersion and refusing to take an experimental drug, let's not forget that! That is the real reason for staffing shortages. Let's all start thinking rationally and objectively and speak and act truthfully.
This is so true with nurses also. Nurse practitioners, travel nurses and nurses at the bedside. Idea job.
Thank you . Great video reaction
My old GP was Dr. Cellini. He was a super beloved MD in Hamilton.
Oh I loved this video!!! I follow both y’all and I’m not even in medicine, I work in HR LOL!
I love the lights behind the monitors!
Freedom is the best. No more 9 to 5!!! Great video.
Hi Michael! Loved that video!
I also think that because she is usually exposed to covid cases its hard to go home and have quality time with her children knowing that maybe she is a carrier of the virus to her own household. I love her aura now she really looks happy. more power Dr. Kristina! 🥳
So she’s doing the doctor version of travel nursing? That’s really telling about the future direction medicine is taking. The scary part is that if many doctors follow suit, what will “healthcare businesses” try to do to either stop it or take advantage of it
I don’t think we will really have to worry about the “what ifs” in the US because most large hospitals already privately contract doctors. It’s already becoming less common for hospitals to have doctors on staff because of how much it costs them to pay full time doctors. Especially when it comes to surgeons and anesthesiologists, most of them run their own practices and the hospitals have networks of doctors that they keep in contact with.
Maybe this could be an issue for on staff GP’s that work in inpatient facilities but still don’t think that’s likely to happen for a long time.
I wonder given the shortages and number of treatments needed if all Dr could work when they want to would we get the same level of care? Its a very tough balance, i appreciate medical worker even more. Im concern about where this is going to look like in future
multiple sources of income can have a positive impact on your freedom for the better. Also when you lose one source of income has less impact than having only one and losing that.
I totally agree. Medicine is a very rewarding career as long as you have time to take care of yourself and your loved ones. People who leave the field would probably be more likely to stay if the schedules were better.
I agree a flexible job is good for your mental health. Always have multiple streams of economy.
I love working remotely as a labor organizer!
OMG. I have been watching her for ages. :( I don't know why I haven't been getting notifications from her channel.
“Thats what everybody want’s in medicine, but unfortunately we gotta kinda burn ourselves out to get there.”
I love working per diem as a RN. I know I'm spoiled lol.
I’ve been a PRN nurse since for years now-since getting my nursing license. Never going back. Love being PRN
I mean… I guess .. I just feel like as a patient I have to keep establishing care w new providers and yea they have your chart but I want to have my provider and their care team… in my OPINION this kind of sucks for me as a patient
Agree.
This is exactly why I went to travel nursing. The ability to have FREEDOM!
So true, only when you have another source of income, then you can talk about your option.
It's the dream for all of us doctors actually! Love the passion you two have for medicine still despite the stress!
Awesome that she didn't actually quit.
Oh man getting an ad for a family friend is fun.
I have seen so many Doctors quit over the last couple of years. I hate for them to waste all that time of their lives to serve people, but unfortunately, the administration does not make it easy. They aren't giving time to their patients at all and dropping them with too much work. I am not a Doctor by any means, but I have seen the faces of struggling Doctors. I work as a PCT at a Hospital, and I can't tell you how many times I would see a Doctor completely exhausted after so much work.
I left a comment in one of her old videos predicting that she was going to quit medicine,
You should check out Dr Young a plastic surgeon in the Detroit area who also is a RUclipsr and apparently a tik-toker as well. I think he only works about 2 or 3 times a week. Loves his job but isn’t burning out
He also went through 7yrs of hell in residency. Gen surg residency is no joke. Glad he's loving it.
I work PRN as a hospital social worker and it’s THE BEST. I mean, the work is still hard and stressful. But being able to choose how many days I want to work each month has been a life saver. I’m 6 months pregnant and I love that I only work 3 or 4 days a week. After I have the baby I plan to work 1-2 days a week. It’s a great way to “stay in the game” and keep up my skills while having a healthy work-life balance.
@Megan B. After having to deal with some hospital social workers with the care of my loved ones, you guys and gals don't do much anyway so it really does not matter what hours you choose.
does interventional neuroradiology have flexibility? i keep reading mixed opinions about this. super torn. if someone knows plz lmk. and if you know how often they're on call?
Kristina is my sister. I’m proud of her choice. I’m an ER NURSE and have been for nearly six years. Healthcare is stressful, but the reward from helping others heal is what keeps me from being burnt out.
Your sis is mentally ill.
I did the same thing in nursing. I went to PRN in January and I love the flexibility!!!
Please please make a video on how to become physician assistant for international students, cost , living expenses, about student loan, salay after becoming PA..... everything
Teachers!!!! Teachers, we don’t get the pay that those in the medical field receive. What would we do without teachers?!?? But it feels like few remember what educators have to go through. We care for the future of our planet - we’re parents to them, counselors, there for boos boos & mental health concern, we’re cheerleaders, & so much more. We don’t get a fraction of the $ that medical people get. It’s time teachers are treated as the professionals were are!
Your job should be to teach them grammar and algebra, not to be woke teachers aka groomers forcing pronouns on them. So many people lost respect for you and are homeschooling, can't say I blame them.
@@milicadjordjevic4498 it’s become more important to educators to poison these young minds about the deviant behavior of choosing there a sex rather than learning about the holocaust and history
We don’t get the pay they do,but we also don’t train as long(4 vs.8-12 yrs). School districts also dictate pay for us. I choose to work in the city and some my classmates chose the “burbs” and make significantly more. So many variables
Nurses and doctors work weekends, holidays, nights,evenings, summertime and snow days. Plus, nurses and doctors save lives and spend more years in college than teachers do.
Teachers are underpaid too, but it's really not the same. Accounting for the yrs in education and time worked, a teacher likely makes more than a Dr, with a better quality of life untill a Dr is well over 40.
Ok. So... Now that I've listened to this whole thing. SHE DIDN'T QUIT AT ALL.
That’s awesome I also watch her videos and want to be a CRNA hopefully but good for her.
Self agency is a pipe dream for bedside HCW. As RN for 39yrs was constantly told pt comes first... agree. But also told I was selfish and shouldn't have had kids if couldn't deal with them and work.... disagree. Unlike gig docs, bedside is critical to seeing/tracking trends as they happen, I understand the immense power of care and skill so I bit the bullet. The bullet of myasthenia is a bitch, now I see more providers on line worried more about side gigs than health. This is a moral injury to me
It’s funny I actually love working a 9-5. I need the schedule and daily expectations in order to thrive. But most importantly I love leaving work at work and not having to deal with it again once I leave for the day. At 5pm my computer closes and my phone is off and work can suck it until 9am tomorrow. 😂
its the same here in england, our health care workers are totally wiped and burned out
The original video link isn’t the same that you’ve reacted to.