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231 – Don’t want to practice clinically anymore?! I got the book for you!

Docs Outside The Box

Dr. Nii Darko

Career, Education, Doctor, Medicine, Careers, Job, Business, Health & Fitness, Finance, Investing, Premed, Black, Money, Lifestyle, Mindset

4.9516 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! What’s good everyone! Dr. Sylvie Stacy, author of 50 Nonclinical Careers for Physicians, jumps on the hot seat to talk about choosing not to practice clinically. Yes, I said it! There are a bunch of medical students, residents, and doctors who deep down know that clinical medicine ain’t for them. Who do they talk to? Where can they find out next what to do? Dr. Sylvie Stacy is a preventive medicine...

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0:00.0

What's good, everyone. This is Dr. Knee. So this is another rerun episode. Now, let me start by just

0:05.9

saying that over the last five years, I've learned a lot of different things. I've learned how to

0:10.7

podcast. I've learned the power of just talking to people and learning from their stories, right?

0:15.7

You've heard me say that in previous episodes that we all got this superpower that we need to share

0:19.2

with each other. All right.

0:20.9

I've learned that people can practice in so many different ways, right?

0:24.3

And that's one of the things that I pulled over these last five years is that practicing

0:27.4

medicine should look different to different people.

0:30.8

All right.

0:30.9

I'm going to say that again.

0:31.8

Practicing medicine should look different to different people, right?

0:36.3

And let me just clarify by just saying that I'm not talking about, you know, how you give antibiotics

0:42.0

or at a time that you give antibiotics or when someone goes to surgery or treatment patterns.

0:46.5

I'm not talking about that.

0:47.5

That stuff is in a different realm.

0:49.0

I don't want to jump into that.

0:50.3

I'm talking specifically about how you decide that you want to practice medicine in terms of where you work, where you live, what your practice lifestyle is, your work-life balance, things like being in a private practice versus being in a group practice versus being hospital employed, shift work versus individual practice.

1:09.8

I'm talking about those type of things right there has to be

1:13.4

or there should be room for medical professionals to thrive in all of those different avenues

1:20.5

and they should get equal attention so everybody knows what's available to them so on on this rerun episode, you're going to hear

1:29.6

from one of my guests, Dr. Sylvie Stacey. She is trained in preventative medicine.

1:35.2

Now, what you might be really interested in knowing is that she wrote a book called 50 non-clinical

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