If you have the necessary attention span, I recommend this life lesson/reflexion titled “I Was An MIT Educated Neurosurgeon. Now I’m Unemployed And Alone In The Mountains. How Did I Get Here?”
In the video, he very eloquently explains what he learned during his 20 years of learning and then practicing as a neurosurgeon, especially:
- How the healthcare system doesn’t do what you expect it to do;
- How you should actually approach your health;
- What to do when you’re not aligned with the system;
- How it feels to not have a plan.
I think it’s really valuable to hear this from someone who has on the inside and got out.
My key takeaways:
- The medical system deals with reducing the pain, not with the cause of the problem. It’s like redoing the damaged inner walls of your house without fixing the leak in the roof that caused the damage.
- This comes form a doctor!
- People with healthy lifestyle habits appeared to heal without surgery.
- People who switched lifestyle habits also tended to heal.
- People with bad lifestyle habits had new issues come up after fixing the first one by surgery.
- The system needs to make money. All the procedures are designed to make money.
- Most doctors don’t question whether or not the standard procedures are the best option.
- Don’t blindly trust your doctor…
- Don’t eat meat every day.
- Sweat! (physically)
- Not having a plan is freeing.