Fightmaster MD Audio
A weekly treatise on committing to one’s heart instead of hiding inside a career of acclaim, acceptance, and complacency. In 2022 at 33 years old, I left my career as a doctor, where I could earn $400,000 per year. I owed $200,000 in student loans. I quit because that life was killing me. And it wasn’t medicine’s fault. I have plenty of friends who love medicine, who love taking care of patients. It was my fault; I never wanted to be a doctor. I needed to find out what I wanted. My life was on the line. Since, I’ve started a furniture company. That was a surprising plot twist. And I write. Every Thursday, I pen an essay aimed at sharing what it took (and what it takes) to own a life I love, and share the audio version here. If you’d like to join one of my free courses or check out other things (including books) that I’ve written, head over to my website https://fightmastermd.com/ Join my newsletter (https://fightmastermd.com/newsletter) and get first book for free today.
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Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Thursday Aug 15, 2024
I never denied it. But I never fully accepted it. In the end, this diabetes delusion led me into medical school. And now, finally, into an understanding of who I've always been.---
Essay Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/08/15/25-years-later-i-accept-my-type-1-diabetes-diagnosis/
Type 1 Diabetes Physiology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfyGv-xwjlI
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Thursday Jul 25, 2024
Thursday Jul 25, 2024
I thought I was fooling people, but I was only fooling myself. Everyone, deep down, knows if we're about it... or not. And I figured out the tell.
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Read this essay on my website: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/07/25/knock-knock-i-wasnt-home/
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
Thursday Jul 18, 2024
I thought it best to leave medicine behind me. It was just an eight year chapter that I wished to never repeat, right? Two years of time has revealed a surprising opposite: I can't survive without it. ----
Essay Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/07/18/cant-live-with-it-cant-live-without-it/
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Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Just because you leave an adolescent age (and enter medical school... and become a doctor... then become a psychiatrist), doesn't mean adolescence leaves you. Or so I've lived and understood, only now, at 35 years old.
Better late than never.
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Erikson's Stages of Development
Link to this week's essay on FightmasterMD.com
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Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
When it's all said and done, I hope to own a collection of choices that helped me understand who I am. And I hope I made the right ones because they're going to impact everyone I know.
We're all in this together. ...
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Essay link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/07/03/the-eternal-impact-of-one-choice/
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
Thursday Jun 27, 2024
For the past eight years, I've been afraid to pause, scared to rest, and reticent to enjoy. Unconsciously, I knew I couldn’t bear the risk. But now, I consciously understand I must.
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Essay Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/06/27/a-first-in-many-moons-the-hunt-stops/
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Thursday Jun 20, 2024
Thursday Jun 20, 2024
We play the game of our life to discover who we are. That and other revelations had while watching my wife's tennis tournament....
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Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
I just understood why I really wrote my first book: to prevent myself from ever making my medicine mistake again.
But playing the game not to lose is no way to play the game. To step forward, I remembered a sage piece of little league advice from my dad.___
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Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Thursday Jun 06, 2024
When I look back now, it seems I always meant to be a psychiatrist. Out of necessity. If I wanted to open up a door into a future that wasn't just a replication of my past, becoming a shrink was always the skeleton key.
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Book link: 32 Lessons from 8 Years Lost in Medicine
Essay link: Written in the Stars: Psychiatry and Me
Thursday May 30, 2024
Thursday May 30, 2024
They say, "Wherever you go, there you are." I'd like to add, "and so follow your object relations." When I went to medical school for my family, I unwittingly melded medicine and family together. Only after I left, could I see the two as separate, make peace, and gratefully love them both.
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Essay link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/05/30/infinite-reflections-in-medicines-mirror/
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