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2020

2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: China, the US and other countries are running trials of drugs known to work against viruses such as HIV, to see whether they work against the coronavirus. — 00:02:55
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali says Donald Trump's figures are broadly accurate: the seasonal flu kills 25,000 to 69,000 people a year in America, about 360,000 over the last 10 years. — 00:07:16
2020-03-11 (said on 2020-03-10, implied) · CORONAVIRUS vs. The Flu - A Comparison — Ali: In America, 23 people have died of COVID-19 so far, against tens of thousands who die of the flu each year. — 00:07:16
2020-03-23 (said on 2020-03-21, implied) · 10 Tips for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) - Advice from a Respiratory Physician — recommendation: Thomas Pulimood says not to compare healthcare organisations across countries: the right interventions depend on each nation's health system and population, so what suits America, Italy, South Korea or Japan differs from Britain. — 00:08:34
2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked why Ali wants to apply for residency in the US, the channel answers that it is for a sense of adventure. — creator comment
2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — Ali starts preparing for the USMLE, the medical exam taken by US medical students, because he is toying with the idea of applying to the US for residency. (hedged) — 00:02:00
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali, living in the UK since 2003, is contemplating living in another country: he would like to try America, Australia and New Zealand, and likes the idea of Hong Kong, South Korea and Argentina. — 00:24:53
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali would love to collaborate with Thomas Frank and Matt D'Avella; one big reason he wants to live in the US for a while is that it unlocks collabs with many of his internet friends. — 00:25:55
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — announcement: Ali tells Thomas Frank and Matt D'Avella he will contact them about collaborations when he moves to America. — 00:26:08
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: In the UK a future specialist such as a plastic surgeon spends four or five years, two foundation years and then core training, before specialising; in the US doctors specialise straight after medical school. — 00:03:10
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: While travelling Ali planned to prepare for the USMLE, the US medical licensing exam, partly because he likes exams and wants to relearn medicine, but mainly to keep open the option of moving to the US. — 00:05:20
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: The idea of moving to the US came partly from a video by Unjaded Jade, a study YouTuber, on how to decide what to do with your life. — 00:08:14
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali wants to do his medical training in a big developed country broadly similar to the UK, such as Australia, Canada or the US, rather than somewhere totally novel. — 00:13:27
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: Getting into American medicine means taking the USMLE exams, Step 1 and Step 2 CK and CS, but Ali likes taking exams, so this does not count against America. — 00:13:27
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: Being in the US would unlock collaborations: most of his YouTuber friends, such as Thomas Frank, Matt D'Avella and Sarah Dietschy, his agency Standard and productivity people like Tiago Forte and Nat Eliason are there. — 00:14:33
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: By Ali's YouTube analytics, about 27% of his audience is in the US, about 12% in the UK and about 12% in India. — 00:15:29
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: Moving to the US would give Ali content: he could vlog the move and compare the UK and US medical systems from working in both. — 00:15:59
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: An emergency medicine residency in America takes three or four years, against about seven years in the UK, two years of acute care training and then four or five as an emergency registrar. — 00:16:42
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: America's many peripheral draws, unrelated to medicine, which Canada, Australia and the UK lack, put it at the top of Ali's list for his residency. — 00:17:26
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: The process apparently takes about two years: Ali hopes to take the USMLE between December 2020 and February 2021 and maybe be in America around 2022. (hedged) — 00:18:09
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: A doctor in America working two or three days a week makes $200,000 to $300,000 a year, Ali says. — 00:18:34
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali makes more than a part-time US doctor's pay from his YouTube videos. — 00:19:02
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: High US pay is not a motivation for Ali: medicine is not how he wants to make money; he wants to earn on the side from other things and do medicine for fun, his goal since his first year of medical school. — 00:19:02
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali has no idea where in the US he would go, though New York seems cool; he might do residency there and then move back to the UK, to Canada or elsewhere as an attending. (speculative) — 00:19:25
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: The spark came from Ali's friends Usama and Shireen in New York: Usama, a dermatology resident in Manhattan, flies to the UK every year to run Liberty Medics' physical course on how to make it in America. — 00:21:54
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: Usama proposed that he and Ali go in together on the online course, Liberty Medics' How to Make It in America; on 2 January 2020 he and Shireen came to Ali's house in Cambridge and they spent two days filming it. — 00:22:54
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: Filming the course from behind the camera, hearing Usama describe life in the US and how to get there, Ali began to think of doing it himself. — 00:22:54
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: They changed the course's structure, adding filmed sofa discussions in which Ali questioned Usama on US pay, work-life balance and a system that denies care to people who cannot pay. — 00:23:37
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: In about two hours of discussion Usama answered most of Ali's objections to working in the US: poor work-life balance, resident burnout, 50 hard weeks a year, and checking insurance before treating. — 00:24:46
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: Adventure is the main thing that sells the move to Ali, and America for its other benefits. — 00:26:26
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: In the US the lives of residents and attendings differ: attendings have much more autonomy and can work part-time, while residency is not part-time. (hedged) — 00:27:35
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: None of these decisions is permanent for Ali: thanks to multiple streams of passive income he does not need medicine to survive, so he can leave America if he dislikes it. — 00:28:01
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali is not much worried about leaving friends: once working you see friends rarely, he sees his medical school friends about twice a year and could fly back from America more often. — 00:28:57
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali is not really scared of guns in America: he thinks a doctor has little to worry about. (hedged) — 00:28:57
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: Before talking to Usama, Ali's uninformed view was that people in the US who cannot afford care are denied it, making the NHS morally superior. — 00:29:42
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: In their 25-minute video on care for people who cannot pay, Usama defended the US position reasonably well, Ali says; he does not know enough to defend it himself. — 00:30:24
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — announcement: Ali's current plan: prepare for the USMLE, which he has started, ramp up once his job ends in August 2020, then aim for an emergency medicine residency in America, always subject to change. — 00:31:36
2020-07-13 · What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt — Molly Hunt is still not sure Ali will move to the US, but will let him prove her wrong. (hedged) — 00:30:09
2020-07-13 · What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt — Molly Hunt would never move to America: she dislikes working as a doctor in a system where people pay for care, and loves the NHS. — 01:25:59
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: A move to America would take at least two or three years of applications and Ali has not fully decided on it; for the next few months to a year he will prepare for the USMLE, the US medical exam. — 00:03:42
2020-08-11 · Study with Me - Hustle & Chill — Ali is preparing for USMLE Step 1 because he is vaguely considering moving to America for his medical residency. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2020-09-27 · Collecting My Tesla Model 3 - Day In The Life — Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked whether Ali plans to move to the US soon, the channel answers: not anytime soon. — creator comment
2020-10-11 (said on 2020-10-08, implied) · How to Invest for Beginners — Ali: As an example of inflation, a cup of coffee in America cost 25 cents in 1970 and $1.59 in 2019. — 00:00:57
2020-10-11 (said on 2020-10-08, implied) · How to Invest for Beginners — Ali: A stock market index is a list such as the FTSE 100, the 100 biggest companies in the UK, or the S&P 500, the 500 biggest companies in the US. — 00:10:25
2020-10-11 (said on 2020-10-08, implied) · How to Invest for Beginners — Ali: In the US most people Ali knows use Vanguard, which Mr. Money Mustache, his favourite blogger, also recommends; a few of his friends use Betterment. — 00:25:46
2020-12-13 · Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions — Ali is having second thoughts about moving to America. — 00:28:27
2020-12-17 · Stress, Regrets and Inspirations - Q&A with Kharma Medic — Ali has made a half-hour video on why he is interested in residency in the US; in essence, he thinks it would be more of an adventure. — 00:19:12
2020-12-17 · Stress, Regrets and Inspirations - Q&A with Kharma Medic — Kharma Medic takes USMLE Step 1 to keep his options open: it puts him on the path to practising medicine in the US or Canada, while he still works towards staying in the UK. — 00:19:34

2019

2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — Ali does not wish he were a doctor in America: if he wanted that, he would take the USMLE and go, but he does not want that kind of life. — 00:21:53
2019-07-26 · How I Manage my Time as a Doctor + YouTuber - 9 Time Management Tips — Ali cites statistics that the average American spends three hours a day watching TV. — 00:06:39
2019-10-30 · How I Read 100 Books a Year - 8 Tips for Reading More — Ali cites evidence that people in America who use e-readers read about 40 or 50% more books a year than people who do not. — 00:00:29

2018

2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Abi says an American doctor offered Charlie Gard an experimental treatment; his parents wanted to fly him to the US, Great Ormond Street Hospital said this was not in his best interests, and a court battle followed. — 00:00:58
2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Abi says the Charlie Gard case caused a huge media storm and was very highly covered both in the UK and, interestingly, in the US. — 00:01:27
2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says the Charlie Gard case got much US media attention partly because American courts are very politicised, with political parties appointing judges. — 00:11:52
2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says many American commentators claimed a US system would have cared about Charlie Gard's parents' wishes, and portrayed the NHS as holding him captive. — 00:12:21
2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Abi says US coverage conflated the state deciding with a national health service, amid American debates about their own health system. — 00:13:19
2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says Charlie Gard's parents raised £1.3 million through a fundraising campaign to fly him to America for the experimental treatment. — 00:18:02
2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says American media outlets still blamed the NHS, presenting the case as what happens with a taxpayer-funded system. — 00:19:01
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali: On people who choose medicine only to make a lot of money, Ali says you can do that in America but not really in the UK. — 00:09:35
2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — Ali hears Scandinavian countries have good healthcare, calls the American system absolutely crap, and loves the UK system, though the NHS probably can't survive in its current state. (hedged) — 00:27:16
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: To a Damascus University student thinking of moving to the UK, Ali says go for it, but nothing is particularly amazing about the UK: the grass seems greener elsewhere, as people in the UK think of America, so do not move for that reason. — 00:06:32
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: Using American English in the BMAT does not matter, Ali says: no one cares. — 00:15:22
2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — Ali: Medical technology is less developed in the UK than in the US, Ali says, so med tech or education tech is easier to get into there: a bigger fish in a smaller pond, without America's competition. — 00:17:21
2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — Ali: To work in medicine in the US after medical school in the UK you must take the USMLE, the biggest barrier, and have references, Ali says. — 00:25:28
2018-08-20 · Studying Medicine in Eastern Europe - A comprehensive guide — Abdullah: A European medical degree is accepted throughout the EU, where doctors can work without passing entrance exams; the UK will have the UK MLA, and for the US there is the USMLE. — 00:30:24
2018-10-01 · Is university worth it? The non-academic value of university — Ali contrasts the US and other systems, where graduates can be saddled with $150,000 of debt chased by banks and companies. — 00:10:38