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Docs Outside The Box

Surgery or Emergency Medicine? Finding Your Path. #451

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

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! Choosing between two medical specialties when one means potentially giving up a vital part of your identity is not easy. A question from a medical student torn between general surgery and emergency medicine, launches us into a discussion of what it truly means to find fulfillment in medicine without sacrificing who you are. Listen now to join this fun conversation about maintaining authenticity in medicine...

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0:00.0

I'm torn between general surgery and EM.

0:02.2

I'm worried if I choose EM, I always wish I was in the OR operating.

0:23.7

And if I choose surgery, I'll lose the other parts of me that make me who I am. Music. Try to use your 80-year-old self to make your decisions. When you old as hell, on your gravestone, what's the story that you want people to say about you? When you're 80, are you going to be regretful that you didn't go for what you really, really wanted to do?

0:55.5

Which, it sounds to me, it sounds like you want to be a dope doc, and you also want to be an amazing music. A hip-hop artist. Do you want to be the Drake? Or do you want to be Kendrick? Being a doctor is no joke. It takes a lot of dedication, a lot of sacrifice. You're going to feel like you're on an island a lot of times. So I would say it's like, listen, like shoot for the stars. If you really love surgery, now is not the time to compromise. What's good everybody. Welcome to another episode of docs outside the box. This is what y'all say. We're super psyched about everybody who writes to us. There's so many different ways that you can reach out to us. Instagram, Twitter. Actually, not Twitter. Instagram, email.

1:00.5

There's text. Hey, listen, you know, there's a lot, man.

1:05.1

There's. Just go on in show notes. You'll find all the things. Yeah, you'll find it all there.

1:13.2

And we just want to say thank you very much.

1:17.5

And today, before we jump into today's question, which is a really super deep question about what specialty to go into, specifically if you have a passion for it, let's jump into real quick about

1:23.6

our previous episode where we talked about LLC versus S Corp and all that stuff.

1:31.9

So, guys, we recorded an episode where we were talking about the different entities,

1:38.1

the different Tykes entities for your business.

1:40.1

There's LLC, there's sole proprietorship.

1:43.0

Then there is, well, how do you want to get taxed by the IRS?

1:46.4

There's S corporation and C corporation. And in that episode, I thought I was whooping some ass and I thought I was being super clear as possible.

1:55.8

But there's always that one person who writes in and has, like, you know, share their information about certain things.

2:01.9

So we got a message here to, like, soup your head up even some more.

2:06.3

Let me see if I can share this page.

2:08.6

Let me see.

2:10.0

Boom.

2:10.7

You got to put somebody on blast like that, me?

2:13.1

You know?

2:13.8

No.

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