Hallie Bulkin (speaker) recounts a personal experience that motivated her to reject "gatekeeping" in healthcare. She describes gaining passion to learn and share knowledge, argues that gatekeeping hurts patients, and urges clinicians to mentor and educate the next generation rather than hoard expertise out of fear of being replaced. The excerpt frames gatekeeping as harmful and driven by a fear-based mindset within the profession.
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It was wild. But that also gave me the passion to learn and then want to share that knowledge. And that was a big thing in the beginning. I was like, no more gatekeeping. Gatekeeping only hurts the patients. Why are we so afraid? And not we, you and I, but just as a profession, why are some of the incredible brilliant minds who are at the forefront of what is being taught here so afraid to educate the next level and mentor the next level or the next, you know, the rising, you know, leaders of the future in this space? Do you feel like they're going to replace you and you won't be irrelevant anymore? Like there's enough of us to go around, there's enough patience to go around. I don't know where this fear based mindset comes from that we can't actually step out and mentor and educate fully, you know, those who are in our circles and those who reach out to us. And so that's like, like you said, I was like, I want to gain this knowledge so I can help others. I want, I can help other patients, I can help other clinicians. You know, gatekeeping, it is harmful and there's just so much of that in our profession. I don't know why.
