Candid conversation with Monisha Veerapaneni, a student who left med school to pursue health system change. I get tons of calls from distraught med students and Monisha and I did a Q&A session in hopes of helping others.

0:10    How come premeds aren’t told about high suicide rate in medicine?
1:00    Why didn’t we know suicide rate by specialty prior to my research?
2:35    Why do trainees fear asking for help?
5:02    Cartoon explainer on physician overwork & self-abuse
9:54    Physician betrayal cycle & institutional betrayal trauma
13:49  The foundational flaw in Western medical training
16:43  Why med students are forced to memorize (& then forget) 90% of what we learn
17:12  Med school outrageous tuition rates
21:24  What’s really causing the residency bottleneck?
24:35  How can for-profit med school exist? (& get away with subpar education)
26:46  Why should we care about sleep-deprived doctors?
30:38  Burnout is bullshit explainer cartoon
34:24  Why are med students & doctors afraid to get therapy?
37:43  Physician suicide & hospital crimes against humanity
38:04  Why the physician exodus from medicine to health coaching
40:00  Discussion on physician salary, overhead & reimbursement
41:50   Unique challenges for female physicians
44:44  Why are premeds clueless (or overly idealistic) about the medical profession?
46:22  Family pressure for a physician trophy child