Somewhere along the decade-plus in training, physicians are imbued with a damaging idea: that we can’t succeed anywhere outside of medicine.
Keep your head down
, we’re taught.
Don’t ask too many questions.
And the age-old line:
You may not love your work anymore, but who else will hire you?
In May 2025, after three years of full-time practice as an ENT surgeon, I left clinical medicine to find that out for myself. Along the way, I realized something: One of medicine’s best-kept secrets is hidden even from physicians themselves: The very tenacity, intelligence, and follow-through that made them doctors can help them succeed almost anywhere.
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— Source: STAT News (https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/18/leaving-medicine-physician-alternative-careers/)
