Leaving Medicine - Why I Quit & Don't Regret It

Stepping away from medicine was the right thing for me to do and I don't regret that decision at all. We feel like we owe so much to the nhs. It's such a hard decision to leave because of so many factors. It was so difficult. And it's like a mixture of things. It's. You know, I dedicated 10 years of my life to being a doctor. You know, six years in med school, four years of training. And so you do feel like a responsibility that you're kind of leaving the team behind. All the way through uni, I would always joke and say, I'm just going to quit and go to art school. Like, this isn't for me. I did love medicine as a topic, like, I thought was really interesting, and I got super involved in all of the societies and all that kind of stuff. I was even president of surgical society. Yeah, it is crazy. And even as a medical student, you'd be walking around the wards and you'd get. Registrars say to you, do something else. Don't do this as a job. Like, this is not what you think it is.