Dr. Ed Tori (speaker/creator) describes burning out during his internship—working long hours, excessive worry about performance, and contemplating leaving medicine. He credits a single piece of advice from an attending with reversing his trajectory, leading to awards (Resident of the Year) and becoming chief resident. The chunk ends with a call-to-action offering a free follow-up video via email signup.
Hey, this is Dr. Tory from rookiedoctor.com. you know, when I started my internship, I started out pretty average. In fact, probably a little below average. And as my internship progressed, I quickly started to burn out. I was the first one in. I was the last one to leave. I was a complete stress ball about how I was performing on rounds. I was calling back in to find out how my patients were doing to make sure I was doing things correctly. I was just completely burning out. So much so that I actively started looking for jobs outside of medicine, meaning I was ready to quit. But what happened is that I had an attending that gave me a piece of advice that completely flipped my career around. Did a complete 180, to the point where I was ultimately called Resident of the Year. I won the resident of the Year award and then ultimately became the chief resident and one of the most celebrated residents in that particular residency. So how does that sort of thing happen? How does someone go from ready to quit to one of the more celebrated residents in the program? Well, it happened with a very simple piece of advice. And I'm going to share that advice with you in a free video. If you just put your name and your email to the right. Right there. I'll send you the link.
