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Chapter 1: Leaving neurosurgery
0:044 secondshi I'm Gooby from Gooby and doobie so I used to be a
0:1212 secondsneurosurgeon I trained or I went to college at MIT and did uh four years of medical school
0:2020 secondsand six years of neurosurgery training and and I I I was a neurosurgeon
0:2626 secondsfor almost 10 years after after all of that so that's 20 years of my life and I
0:3535 secondsquit I quit last year and nobody understood why I
0:4747 secondsquit uh people would ask but you know a decision that involves 20 years of your
0:5555 secondslife you can't really answer in a couple minutes and most people don't have
1:021 minute, 2 secondstime to sit and listen to uh a 10 or 15 minute story or however long it takes to
1:091 minute, 9 secondsexplain why someone's doing something that most people would never do and they
1:161 minute, 16 secondsdon't really understand why I would do that so that's why I'm making this
1:241 minute, 24 secondsvideo uh first to help sort my own thoughts out about the whole thing because there's a lot of factors but
1:331 minute, 33 secondsalso to maybe help somebody else who's in U in a tough
1:401 minute, 40 secondsspot uh if they're in a tough spot like I was maybe hearing my story will help
1:481 minute, 48 secondsthem get out of that tough spot um I'm going to put my hood on
1:561 minute, 56 secondsbecause there's some mosquitoes out here so I
2:022 minutes, 2 secondscan think without being distracted by them
Chapter 2: The dream of neurosurgery
2:132 minutes, 13 secondsso I became a doctor uh to help people and I remember
2:222 minutes, 22 secondsat the beginning of medical school when um I was just starting there was a u
2:322 minutes, 32 secondsthere was a ceremony and we all took a hypocritic oath I remember there was one of the old older faculty docs and he
2:412 minutes, 41 secondssaid that your job as doctors is to relieve suffering it's not
2:482 minutes, 48 secondsto it's not to uh do a surgery or give a pill it's to relieve
2:572 minutes, 57 secondssuffering that that might be for from doing a surgery or a pill but it might be just listening
3:053 minutes, 5 secondsacknowledging what someone's going through that stuck with me all through medical school and residency and
3:143 minutes, 14 secondsafterwards um how I became a neurosurgeon is is
3:223 minutes, 22 secondsum well I've always been interested in how the brain works how Consciousness Works how
3:293 minutes, 29 secondshow our our brain and body is able to perceive this mountain
3:363 minutes, 36 secondsside um the stream that's nearby um we have so many choices in
3:453 minutes, 45 secondslife like is there such thing as a good life and if so how do you live that those are all questions that I was
3:543 minutes, 54 secondscurious about and that led me to be C ious about the brain and at that
4:024 minutes, 2 secondstime at my medical school there were some researchers and they still they still are working on this um uh working
4:094 minutes, 9 secondson connecting brains to computers uh through a brain machine interface so this was this was like science fiction
4:204 minutes, 20 secondsum like uh
4:284 minutes, 28 secondscreating a robotic arm or leg that's controlled by a person's thoughts that was really interesting to
4:374 minutes, 37 secondsme and there were people working on that so I wanted to go into neurosurgery and learn about that and do research on it
4:454 minutes, 45 secondsand maybe one day do do a surgery like uh a Luke Skywalker replacing his arm kind of
4:534 minutes, 53 secondssurgery so I went into uh neurosurgery training
5:045 minutes, 4 secondsI got in and uh I spent six years learning how to do brain surgery
5:135 minutes, 13 secondsand most people don't know that neurosurgeons spent half their time also learning how to do spine surgery because
5:205 minutes, 20 secondsum spine problems are more common than brain problems so I spent six years learning
5:275 minutes, 27 secondshow to do both brain and spine surgery and I did some
5:345 minutes, 34 secondsresearch uh working on rats and electrodes putting electrodes in their brain
5:405 minutes, 40 secondsand and um I was slated to go go up to Toronto to work with the guru of uh
5:475 minutes, 47 secondsbrain machine interfaces but as I did more research
5:545 minutes, 54 secondsinto the problem I I found that um this dream
6:026 minutes, 2 secondsof being able to give people robotic arms or legs I don't think will ever happen and
6:116 minutes, 11 secondsthat's because the brain the brain knows that these small electrodes that listen to the brain are are not part of the
6:186 minutes, 18 secondsbody so it rejects it builds up a wall of Scar and then the electrodes they can't hear the they can't hear the
6:266 minutes, 26 secondsneurons the little tiny cells in the brain that send the signals
6:336 minutes, 33 secondsso so the the goal that I wanted to to
6:406 minutes, 40 secondsaccomplish which was to become a neurosurgeon who specializes and does research
6:456 minutes, 45 secondson on um brain machine interface work um I thought that that
6:566 minutes, 56 secondswould that would not work out in the end because of those
7:047 minutes, 4 secondslimitations and after putting in 4 years plus at that time 5
7:107 minutes, 10 secondsyears of my life that's nine years of my from 20 to 29 years old it's like the
7:197 minutes, 19 secondsprime of my youth I I I I had put it invested it in doing medical school and
7:287 minutes, 28 secondslearning how to do brain and spine surgery I at the age of 29 I realized
7:367 minutes, 36 secondsthat where I wanted to go I I would never be able to make it it's just not not
7:437 minutes, 43 secondspossible and after putting N9 years of my youth into that job um I didn't want
7:507 minutes, 50 secondsto throw that away so in my last year of residency I
7:577 minutes, 57 secondsum I learned how to do spine Serv urg cuz that's what most neurosurgeons do it's the most common thing is what a
8:048 minutes, 4 secondsregular neuros surgery job is is fixing people's um worn out necks and
8:118 minutes, 11 secondsbacks and I had good teachers to do that and and uh you know I graduated and
8:218 minutes, 21 secondsI I got my first job and um yeah I knew that some something was
Chapter 3: Limitations of surgical care
8:308 minutes, 30 secondsnot right right away it you know I had good partners I
8:368 minutes, 36 secondshad good hospitals that I worked at uh but something was not right I was
8:468 minutes, 46 secondsvery unhappy I I and on the surface it didn't make
8:548 minutes, 54 secondssense I had um I was getting paid very well it was a very well-respected
9:029 minutes, 2 secondsjob I had good colleagues had good support but I was the most
9:119 minutes, 11 secondsunhappy um that I've ever been and I couldn't really figure it out for a long
9:199 minutes, 19 secondstime um I had gotten married before uh just
9:269 minutes, 26 secondsbefore getting the new job and and and that's the best decision I've ever made
9:329 minutes, 32 secondsuh my wife is so understanding and
9:449 minutes, 44 secondssupportive she tried to help me out uh but um really I didn't know what
9:519 minutes, 51 secondswas the problem I couldn't I couldn't describe it uh but you know now I know what it is
10:0410 minutes, 4 secondsso it's really complicated and I I'll do the best I can to explain it going back to medical school when
10:1410 minutes, 14 secondswhen I took that oath and I had that um older Professor say that your job is to
10:2010 minutes, 20 secondsrelieve suffering you know that's what I understood to um of what it means to be a good doctor
10:3010 minutes, 30 secondsand I had learned all these fancy spine surgery techniques to do all this
10:3610 minutes, 36 secondsincredible surgery work through tiny cuts and it's called minimally invasive spine surgery it's the latest
10:4510 minutes, 45 secondstechnology we use navigation like a GPS inside the operating room like all all the latest techniques you know I learned
10:5410 minutes, 54 secondsand I learned how to do well and I I did them and I I helped I helped a lot of people
11:0311 minutes, 3 secondsout but there were way more people that I couldn't help and that's because
11:1111 minutes, 11 secondsum you know surgery surgery like if if someone's got a what's called um degenerative spine
11:2011 minutes, 20 secondsthat means their spine degenerated it wore out could be a bulging disc pinching a
11:2811 minutes, 28 secondsnerve or a disc is just worn out and bones are rubbing on each other or there's a loose joint and the joint is
11:3511 minutes, 35 secondsbanging on nerves causing pain I can do surgery to cut
11:4311 minutes, 43 secondsout like a buling disc to to remove something and make more room for a nerve or I could I could do a surgery where I
11:5111 minutes, 51 secondsput titanium screws and rods into the spine and lock it down and remove motion
11:5911 minutes, 59 secondsit's all removing things the only thing that was adding things was putting in a little electrode
12:0712 minutes, 7 secondsto to block pain signals uh if there was nothing else you could
12:1712 minutes, 17 secondsdo but th those were the tools I had I I learned to use them really
12:2312 minutes, 23 secondswell but what I what I realized later on is that
12:3112 minutes, 31 secondsyou those those aren't fixing the problem there's so many people with with back problems neck pain back pain nerve
12:4012 minutes, 40 secondspain down their arms and legs surgery surgery might make him better for a little bit
12:4912 minutes, 49 secondsbut it didn't address what caused that disc to wear out or the disc to bulge or the joint to get
12:5712 minutes, 57 secondsloose or the the the disc in between the bones to disappear and then the bones are rubbing
13:0413 minutes, 4 secondson each other those surgeries they don't address
13:1413 minutes, 14 secondsthat so what what I was
13:2713 minutes, 27 secondsdoing so what I I was doing was
13:3613 minutes, 36 secondsum there's a lot of
Chapter 4: The leaky roof analogy
13:5413 minutes, 54 secondsmosquitoes so what I was doing was I was doing the surgeries that I learned how to do I was trying to help people but
14:0314 minutes, 3 secondsthese surgeries they weren't fixing the problem they would help some people feel better some people would feel the same
14:1114 minutes, 11 secondssome people would be worse u a lot of people I saw in clinic I had to tell them that oh surgery is
14:1814 minutes, 18 secondsnot going to help you and of course they would be devastated because I was sort of their
14:2514 minutes, 25 secondslast hope that all weighed really heavy cuz I
14:3514 minutes, 35 secondsthought I was going to relieve suffering and I did relieve some suffering but I saw so much more suffering that I
14:4314 minutes, 43 secondscouldn't relieve even if I tried even if I tried to do
14:5514 minutes, 55 secondssurgery I'm going to change the battery so um a PA a PA a physician assistant
15:0615 minutes, 6 secondsthat I worked with um he made a good analogy that the surgeries we're
15:1215 minutes, 12 secondsdoing is like this it's like you have a house and the roof the top top of your
15:2015 minutes, 20 secondshouse has a leak somewhere and rain water is coming down into the house and it's ruining the
15:2915 minutes, 29 secondsdrywall and you can see it you can see water damage the surgeries that I could do
15:3815 minutes, 38 secondswere like going into that house tearing down that drywall ripping out the moldy
15:4715 minutes, 47 secondsinsulation putting in brand new insulation and rebuilding the
15:5615 minutes, 56 secondswall but not not fixing the leak in the
16:0316 minutes, 3 secondsroof that's what I was doing and the way I I realized that is
16:1216 minutes, 12 secondsthat I could do a perfect surgery and some people would get better some people would stay the same some people would
16:1916 minutes, 19 secondsget worse even though I did the exact same perfect surgery and some people would get better
16:2816 minutes, 28 secondsbefore I could oper praying on them even with gigantic bulging discs they would get better if I scheduled a
16:3716 minutes, 37 secondssurgery a month out they would sometimes they would call me a week before surgery and say oh hey Doc uh you know my my
16:4516 minutes, 45 secondsnerve Pain's gone um do I still need to do surgery yeah I got a big disc in there a
16:5216 minutes, 52 secondsbig bulging disc right and you that that was
17:0217 minutes, 2 secondsuh that was very confusing to me you know I had learned some of that in nurse in residency
17:1017 minutes, 10 secondsbut actually being out there and practicing and seeing seeing what happens to people I realized that well
17:1817 minutes, 18 secondswait a second wait a second this this isn't
17:2417 minutes, 24 secondsquite what I thought it was I thought that um if I do a perfect surgery people are
17:3417 minutes, 34 secondsgoing to get better it wasn't always the
17:4717 minutes, 47 secondscase so over the nine years that 9 to 10 years that I I was a neurosurgeon
17:5717 minutes, 57 secondsI it really bothered me it really bothered me I felt that um I felt that wait there's something
18:0418 minutes, 4 secondsmissing here you know I my surgeries are not they don't seem
18:1218 minutes, 12 secondsto be they don't seem to be addressing what's causing people's health problems
18:1918 minutes, 19 secondsin their spine I mean it they sort of do but but not um not in the way that I
18:2818 minutes, 28 secondsthought not in the way that I thought when I was training and so over 9
18:3618 minutes, 36 secondsyears I did everything I could try to do to try to figure out but how do people actually get
18:4418 minutes, 44 secondsbetter and how do they get worse and um you I had help along the
18:5118 minutes, 51 secondsway I had a really good partner who was a pain management doc at my first job
18:5918 minutes, 59 secondsand he really clued me into um a lot of a lot of the things I'm going to explain
19:0819 minutes, 8 secondshere but I just started asking patients like everything I could think
19:1519 minutes, 15 secondsof um what do you what do you normally do what's your job what do you eat what do you drink do you smoke do you do you
19:2419 minutes, 24 secondselicit drugs do you uh you have a lot of friends do you you how's your family are you stressed
19:3219 minutes, 32 secondsout do you sleep well I I just would ask all my patients
19:4019 minutes, 40 secondsjust kind of this whole bunch of questions about their life and what I found
19:4719 minutes, 47 secondswas that um patients that did certain things would
19:5619 minutes, 56 secondsget better and patients who wouldn't do those things would get worse my surgery
20:0320 minutes, 3 secondsmight help them out a little bit but they would get worse after that um and those things that I I saw
Chapter 5: Factors for true healing
20:1420 minutes, 14 secondswere the following it's um people that got better people that
20:2020 minutes, 20 secondshealed they were doing following and not exactly but in general and this is my
20:2720 minutes, 27 secondsobservation uh they they were having a diet well diet seemed to
20:3520 minutes, 35 secondsbe the most important the food that people ate and the liquids they
20:4120 minutes, 41 secondsdrink the ones that would heal up they had a low salt diet like not it
20:5020 minutes, 50 secondswasn't really salty and most of them ate mostly plant-based Foods you know like
20:5820 minutes, 58 secondsvegetable vegetables fruits whole grains beans and this is not this is not like a
21:0421 minutes, 4 secondsvegan rant or anything I I I'm not vegan I enjoy a steak or sushi every once in a
21:1321 minutes, 13 secondswhile I'm just describing what what I saw over N9 years of doing spine
21:2021 minutes, 20 secondssurgery people that got better were having a mostly plant-based diet they weren't eating too much animal foods and
21:3021 minutes, 30 secondsthey were definitely not eating salty and they would do things that would make them sweat like exercise being outside
21:3721 minutes, 37 secondshiking like this going to a sauna um or they live in a warm
21:4621 minutes, 46 secondsplace um they didn't smoke they didn't drink
21:5321 minutes, 53 secondsmuch uh they usually had a good soci social support like uh loved ones family
22:0222 minutes, 2 secondsmembers children friends
22:0922 minutes, 9 secondsum like a way to socialize they would sleep they would sleep like eight hours every day and they weren't stressed out
22:1822 minutes, 18 secondsor they if they had a stressful job or something they they they found a way to like be mindful or meditate or like
22:2822 minutes, 28 secondsjust be present and um release the stress back into the Universe
22:3722 minutes, 37 secondsum that's what I saw and I saw that the people who did
22:4322 minutes, 43 secondsthat they would heal so quickly that I couldn't operate on them I mean sometimes I could but if I was booked
22:5322 minutes, 53 secondslike three or four weeks out a lot of times people would that were doing that they would heal before I
23:0223 minutes, 2 secondscould do the surgery that I thought would fix the problem and the opposite was true you
23:1023 minutes, 10 secondsknow patients that patients that um so they smoked like a chimney they
23:1723 minutes, 17 secondssat on the couch and they ate hot dogs all day they had no friends they were super stressed
23:2323 minutes, 23 secondsout and um they didn't sleep
23:3023 minutes, 30 secondswell yeah th those patients like I I could do a really good surgery I would get them temporarily better but 6 months
23:3923 minutes, 39 secondsyear later the same part of their back would have a recurrent problem or a
23:4723 minutes, 47 secondsdifferent part a different joint of their back would have a similar problem and I would operate on them and
23:5423 minutes, 54 secondsthey might get better for 6 months and then yeah then the same thing would happen so
24:0224 minutes, 2 secondsit's the it's the Leaky Roof problem so that that was my that was my
24:1224 minutes, 12 secondsaha moment it's like oh I know what's going on wait to actually heal you you need to
24:2124 minutes, 21 secondslike eat a certain way sleep a lot not be stressed out I have a good
24:2824 minutes, 28 secondssocial network exercise move your body stretch if you do all those
24:3624 minutes, 36 secondsthings you heal and when your body heals it doesn't just
24:4424 minutes, 44 secondsheal worn out joint in your neck or your back it heals everything it heals a worn out joint in your neck your back it
24:5224 minutes, 52 secondsheals the skin problem it heals um your digestive tract problem it heals your hair
24:5924 minutes, 59 seconds[Music]
25:0025 minutesissues when when your body heals it heals everything
Chapter 6: Incentives in the medical system
25:0825 minutes, 8 secondsand that actually became a huge problem and uh let me explain why that's a huge problem because most people will say wa
25:1725 minutes, 17 secondshow is that a problem that you figured out how people are healing uh it's a problem because our
25:2525 minutes, 25 secondsmedical system isn't set up isn't set up this way our our um our you know I'm I'm not knocking any
25:3525 minutes, 35 secondshospital or group that I worked with I've I had the privilege to work with really amazing people and amazing
25:4525 minutes, 45 secondshospitals amazing institutions but the way that everything is set up in the whole country it's not
25:5425 minutes, 54 secondsany particular Hospital the way things are set up is that the hospital needs to make
26:0326 minutes, 3 secondsmoney they need to make money they need to they need to
26:1126 minutes, 11 secondsgrow economically they need to grow economically and the problem there is
26:2126 minutes, 21 secondsthat if you figure out a way to help patients heal
26:2826 minutes, 28 secondsand that in that way doesn't include a pill or a surgery
26:3626 minutes, 36 secondswell then the hospital and the doctor are in big trouble because if you figure out a way to help
26:4526 minutes, 45 secondspeople heal and you can't charge them for it well then you've just um worked yourself out of a
26:5426 minutes, 54 secondsjob let's just say let's just say um like for example there's a hospital in a
27:0127 minutes, 1 secondtown and um you know there's an x amount of people with back problems um and the hospital that
27:0927 minutes, 9 secondsthere's a doctor say it was like me Dr Gooby was doing we'll just say 100 spine surgeries
27:1727 minutes, 17 secondsin a year to fix those the people in the community's backs and the hospital got paid Dr Gooby got play
27:2627 minutes, 26 secondspaid and um they Contin every year 100 people needed surgery from Dr
27:3527 minutes, 35 secondsGooby well the hospital's happy Dr Gooby gets paid Dr gooy may not be happy with his life
27:4327 minutes, 43 secondsbut he's getting paid and the do the hospital is getting paid but if Dr Gooby figures out
27:5127 minutes, 51 secondshey um yeah you know what this surgery can help some people but really the best
28:0028 minutesthing that people can do is eat a certain way exercise
28:0628 minutes, 6 secondssleep meditate be mindful you not be stressed hang out with their loved ones and friends and then their back problems
28:1528 minutes, 15 secondswill get better and if Dr Gooby actually
28:2428 minutes, 24 secondsrecommended that to his patients and they actually did get better well it's a big problem for Dr goobie's
28:3228 minutes, 32 secondspaycheck and the hospital cuz let's say in that town let's say
28:3928 minutes, 39 secondseverybody everybody ate more veggies and fruits they really watched the salt intake they did things that made them
28:4728 minutes, 47 secondssweat like being outside in the summer exercising enjoying fresh air and the nature and and uh spending time with
28:5628 minutes, 56 secondstheir loved ones and they slept 8 hours every day and they they meditated and they weren't stressed out let's just say
29:0329 minutes, 3 secondseverybody who had back problems in that town did that and they got better they
29:1229 minutes, 12 secondshealed then nobody needs spine surgery anymore in fact they probably don't need
29:1929 minutes, 19 secondsa lot of things anymore and then Dr guy's office is empty
29:3029 minutes, 30 secondsand the hospital's operating room is empty at least for Dr Gooby
29:3829 minutes, 38 secondssurgeries now I'm not saying that that's exactly what happened because not everyone's going to do all those things that
29:4529 minutes, 45 secondsI that I talked about but I had a lot of patients that did do those things and they got better I never had to operate
29:5229 minutes, 52 secondson them and they were very happy that they never had to be operated on and they got better better that the pain went
30:0130 minutes, 1 secondaway and um yeah so that that
30:0730 minutes, 7 secondswas that was what I figured out over N9 years and
30:1530 minutes, 15 secondsI I still did surgery because you know not everybody could can do all those things I talked about I mean just practically
30:2530 minutes, 25 secondsspeaking and so I I I still did surgery but I really felt
30:3530 minutes, 35 secondslike really felt like the focus of medicine wasn't in the right place it wasn't in healing it was in making money
30:4330 minutes, 43 secondsfrom surgeries and pills and images whatever you can make money
30:5230 minutes, 52 secondsfrom uh again I'm not knocking any particular place that I work I work for very good hospitals people
31:0131 minutes, 1 secondhave good intentions but the incentives are not not right in the whole system this whole country's medical system
31:0831 minutes, 8 secondsprobably not just this country but most countries um it's not about prevention
31:1531 minutes, 15 secondsit's about therapies so yeah once I once I figured out this
31:2431 minutes, 24 secondsproblem or figured out what was going on it was a huge problem for me
31:3131 minutes, 31 secondsethically I was doing surgeries that I knew weren't fixing the underlying
31:3831 minutes, 38 secondsproblem they may be fixing the drywall and taking out the insulation and putting in brand new insulation and
31:4531 minutes, 45 secondsputting a brand new drywall and some pretty color of paint on the wall but it wasn't fixing the Leaky
31:5431 minutes, 54 secondsRoof um and so I didn't know what to do I I I was
Chapter 7: The decision to quit
32:0432 minutes, 4 secondsdoing a job that I didn't believe in anymore it was the way I was getting
32:1132 minutes, 11 secondspaid and I don't know how to do any other job at that time my wife wasn't working I was the only
32:2132 minutes, 21 secondspaycheck we don't have kids thankfully makes things a lot easier uh we have dupy our doggy our doggy child and she's
32:3032 minutes, 30 seconds7 years old and but yeah we don't we don't have like a a human child and um yeah I I was thinking well
32:4032 minutes, 40 secondsI'm the only paycheck I I need to keep working I need to keep going to this job that I don't believe in
32:4732 minutes, 47 secondsanymore and that tore me apart I gained 40
32:5432 minutes, 54 secondslbs uh I was really sad I was really
33:0133 minutes, 1 secondangry frustrated didn't have hope I thought I was
33:0833 minutes, 8 secondsstuck I was stuck and then um this was the year
33:1733 minutes, 17 secondsbefore last year before last I was like I don't know how I can do this for the rest of my
33:2533 minutes, 25 secondslife most surgeons they keep operating till they're 60 and that time I was 38 I was like I
33:3333 minutes, 33 secondsdon't know I don't know how I can I don't know how I can operate doing this doing surgeries I don't believe in
33:4133 minutes, 41 secondseven though I I can do them I can do them very well and I can help some people out I helped out a number of
33:4833 minutes, 48 secondspeople but I I it was a moral dilemma or moral injury
33:5633 minutes, 56 secondsI think there's the term moral injury it was a moral injury um and it
34:0334 minutes, 3 secondsdevastated me and I kept going to work and I kept doing my best to do a good
34:1334 minutes, 13 secondsjob but um yeah it tore me up inside and I knew that if I kept going
34:2334 minutes, 23 secondsback to that job every day for another 20 years uh I would die before 20 years I I my
34:3234 minutes, 32 secondsbody and mind and soul they would
34:4034 minutes, 40 secondshave they would have just broken down and I don't I don't think I would have
34:4834 minutes, 48 secondsmade it I wouldn't have made it to 60 uh
34:5634 minutes, 56 secondsso so I I I knew that something had to change but I was stuck I I was the bread
35:0335 minutes, 3 secondswinner and I think a lot of people can relate to this I think a lot of people may may feel this
35:1035 minutes, 10 secondsway um and uh I knew that I was dying I I was dying
35:1835 minutes, 18 secondsinside and my body was dying so you know I I talked with my wife and I said well you know would it
35:2635 minutes, 26 secondsbe okay if if I I just work part-time maybe I'll cover the ER neurosurgery job for couple weekends a
35:3535 minutes, 35 secondsmonth or a week or week and a half each month and do something else something that makes me feel good like being out here
35:4435 minutes, 44 secondsbeing out in nature uh the rest of the time and my my wife you know I was I said earlier that
35:5335 minutes, 53 secondsshe's amazing she said I see what you're going through
36:0036 minutesI've I've lived with you through it you should just
36:1336 minutes, 13 secondsquit and I I said what H how can I quit you know you're not you're not working
36:2136 minutes, 21 secondsyet she's she was going to school for a second career and
36:2936 minutes, 29 secondsand she said well you know we'll be okay we we saved up some
36:3736 minutes, 37 secondsmoney it's not enough to retire but it's something to live off of for a few
36:4736 minutes, 47 secondsyears why don't you just quit and I thought about it thought
36:5436 minutes, 54 secondsabout it really hard and I knew that I couldn't keep going back but I didn't know what I was going
37:0237 minutes, 2 secondsto do instead for work but I knew that I would die if I kept going
37:1137 minutes, 11 secondsback so with my wife support I went to my job and I said hey
37:1937 minutes, 19 secondsI can't do this anymore I will do it for another I think it was nine months at that time I'll do
37:2737 minutes, 27 secondsit for another nine months until you can find someone to replace me so that our that hospital still have a spine
37:3737 minutes, 37 secondssurgeon um so I I I I just worked another nine
37:4537 minutes, 45 secondsmonths and I quit and nobody understood why I quit
Chapter 8: Life without a plan
37:5837 minutes, 58 secondsI I would try to explain but this video is probably already 40 minutes long and people don't have 40 minutes to listen
38:0538 minutes, 5 secondsto me explain why I quit you know so I would tell them oh yeah I was burnt out or um it's just too
38:1538 minutes, 15 secondsstressful I I just want to take a break or um it said I said all kinds of things
38:2438 minutes, 24 secondslike like that I mean they're all true but they weren't the full picture um and you at first I was like I was
38:3238 minutes, 32 secondsreally embarrassed to say that I'm quitting and that I have no plan of what to do afterwards that was
38:4138 minutes, 41 secondsembarrassing too um but
38:4838 minutes, 48 secondsafter after some time had passed and a lot of people had asked me that question and I told a lot of people I have no
38:5638 minutes, 56 secondsidea what I'm going to do afterwards it actually felt good if if
39:0439 minutes, 4 secondsit feels good to not have a plan it's
39:1139 minutes, 11 secondsum it's freeing it's I got because I don't have a plan I I don't have to be
39:2039 minutes, 20 secondsanywhere I don't have to do something at a certain time um
39:2839 minutes, 28 secondsand then I just kind of like leaned into it and someone asked me oh what's your plan I said I don't
39:3739 minutes, 37 secondsknow and I felt good about it and I could tell they felt embarrassed for
39:4539 minutes, 45 secondsme they felt uncomfortable where where whereas I was feeling uncomfortable initially saying that
39:5339 minutes, 53 secondsbut yeah over time I you know I I just accept it like I know I can't do
39:5939 minutes, 59 secondsneurosurgery anymore and I don't have a plan and I'm quitting and I won't have a paycheck uh I got I got some money saved
40:0940 minutes, 9 secondsup and I can live off of that for a while but I've got to work again at some point I can't retire um but yeah no I
40:1640 minutes, 16 secondsneed to do this I I knew I needed to do this and I and I did it so that was last September I
40:2340 minutes, 23 secondsquit haven't gone back and um you know at
40:3140 minutes, 31 secondsfirst oh so so you know this is I think what most people call a midlife
40:3940 minutes, 39 secondscrisis um but I would say the crisis part was really the nine years that I was super unhappy that was the
40:5040 minutes, 50 secondscrisis so I think that's what most people call a midlife crisis is what I would say was those 9 years I
40:5840 minutes, 58 secondswas really unhappy I I I knew something was wrong and I knew I couldn't live like that but I I felt stuck felt stuck
41:0741 minutes, 7 secondsin that situation felt like I couldn't um Escape it that was a crisis now that I've
41:1741 minutes, 17 secondsleft I haven't been this happy in my whole life it does not feel like a crisis right now I mean maybe financially it
41:2541 minutes, 25 secondsmight be a crisis that's some point but I I've never been this happy before
Chapter 9: New path and nature
41:3641 minutes, 36 secondsever it feels right um so so what I did when I quit
41:4541 minutes, 45 secondsis I just walked a lot outside cuz I you I had gained 40 lbs like I said earlier
41:5141 minutes, 51 secondsand yeah I ate healthy I slept a lot because you know a neurosurgeon they
41:5941 minutes, 59 secondsdon't sleep very well because they're they keep getting called about emergencies you I nobody was calling me
42:0742 minutes, 7 secondsI slept every night for a really long time and I walked and I spent time
42:1542 minutes, 15 secondsoutside I spent time with my dog I did the things that I wanted to do which like be out
42:2242 minutes, 22 secondshere um my dog she's Dobie she's seven years old and for the majority of her
42:2942 minutes, 29 secondslife she um unfortunately had a very boring life because I was so busy my wife was busy
42:3842 minutes, 38 secondsand we take her out for a walk every day for half an hour to an hour and then she would just lay at
42:4542 minutes, 45 secondshome the rest of the day and yeah made me sad made me sad that
42:5242 minutes, 52 secondsthat's her life or that was her life and so I I wanted to spend time with her and
43:0143 minutes, 1 secondspend time with her outside because she loves being outside um and so so I first started out I want to lose
43:1143 minutes, 11 secondsweight get back to a healthier weight I want to help my dog live a full life you know
43:1943 minutes, 19 secondsthe way she's having fun she's smelling things she's experiencing things outside
43:2843 minutes, 28 secondsthat's kind of where things started and I um I made that made this YouTube channel
43:3643 minutes, 36 secondsGooby and doobie to to um
43:4443 minutes, 44 secondsrecord the experiences I have with uh with dubie because she's not going to
43:5143 minutes, 51 secondslive forever if I live a fulllength life you know she's going to pass pass away
43:5843 minutes, 58 secondsbefore before um before I do and um I wanted to be able to
44:0744 minutes, 7 secondsremember the times that I've had with her and so that's that's why I made this Channel and recording our
44:1644 minutes, 16 secondshikes um where I'm going with this is is that
44:2544 minutes, 25 secondsyou know I didn't have a plan but so where I'm going with
44:3344 minutes, 33 secondsthis where I'm going with this is you I quit I quit I had no
44:4244 minutes, 42 secondsplan but when you let go of something that you're holding too tightly even though it's hurting you and you let go of it then you're able to pick up
44:5144 minutes, 51 secondssomething else that hopefully is better for you um
44:5944 minutes, 59 secondsI I wanted to spend time outside I wanted to help my dog live a full life
45:0645 minutes, 6 secondsby being outside with me and then I wanted to record those moments so
45:1345 minutes, 13 secondsthat if I live longer than duie I will have those memories I can look back at them and uh appreciate the time that
45:2245 minutes, 22 secondsthat I have with my dog um that's how this Channel got started
45:3145 minutes, 31 secondsand uh being outside with her I I started taking video
45:3745 minutes, 37 secondsof these Pleasant nature scenes and
45:4545 minutes, 45 secondsum I found them very therapeutic for myself
45:5245 minutes, 52 secondsum there were a couple stressful times over this past year due to family family
45:5945 minutes, 59 secondshealth issues and I found that hearing those uh nature
46:0646 minutes, 6 secondssounds really helped helped me feel better helped me process what was going
46:1246 minutes, 12 secondson better be more present and aware and and um kind of release that
46:2046 minutes, 20 secondsstress stress and anxiety um and so yeah that's that's that's how I that's how I I am I came to
46:2946 minutes, 29 secondswhere I am now by letting go of Nur
46:3746 minutes, 37 secondssurgery I am able to be outside be healthier my dog is able to live a
46:4346 minutes, 43 secondsfuller life and I figured out a way that I can help relieve people suffering by
46:5146 minutes, 51 secondssharing nature scenes with them it's not a surgery
47:0047 minutesbut but it it definitely works to at least one of those several things that
47:0747 minutes, 7 secondshelp people heal which is to relieve stress
47:1647 minutes, 16 secondsso yeah that's my story that's that's how that's how um an MIT
47:2447 minutes, 24 secondseducated neurosurgeon got to the point where they're
47:3147 minutes, 31 secondsunemployed and out in the mountains by themselves well that was a really long
47:4247 minutes, 42 secondsthat was really long and I hope that that might help somebody
47:4947 minutes, 49 secondsum I hope that you have a wonderful day if you're listening to this and uh you
47:5547 minutes, 55 secondsknow trust your heart trust your heart lean on the people that love
48:0548 minutes, 5 secondsyou and do what you need to do whatever that is