Should a doctor leave medicine for another career?

Leaving clinical medicine, going part-time or locum, going back.

Axis: leave and don't look back … keep a foot in medicine

Answers by date: 9 records in 8 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2019, 2020), never reversed, in these records.

date	who	answer	source
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied)	Ali	Ali still wants to be a doctor, but part-time: three days a week would be really fun, while doing anything five to seven days a week risks burnout and stress.	How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber 00:10:31
2020-12-13	Ali	Designing his life from scratch, Ali would not be a doctor five days a week but somewhere between one and three; he enjoys being a doctor but wants to do it part-time, as everything is more fun part-time.	Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions 00:16:54
2020-08-06	Ali	Given the choice, Ali would not spend his life as he spent the last two years, 48 hours a week in hospital with an hour's drive each way; designing his life from scratch, he would do medicine two or three days a week because it is fun.	My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections 00:27:32
2020-08-06	Ali	Ali is in the camp that there is no rush to become a consultant: nobody cares how long it took, medicine is a lifelong career, so taking a year out to explore other interests does not matter.	My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections 00:06:09
2020-07-03	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.	I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update 00:19:02
2020-04-29	Ali	Ali is glad he did the medical degree and finds the job quite fun, but doesn't want to be a doctor for the rest of his life, at least not full-time, hence YouTube and his businesses.	Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive 00:31:24
2019-09-24	Ali	With his passive income Ali could quit medicine if he wanted to, though he won't, and that gives him more freedom to travel the world and do things.	Ready Player One + 'My First Million' - Monthly Favourites #12 00:07:24
2019-08-16	Ali	Ali wants to keep being a doctor because it is fun and interesting, with content creation on the side.	Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions 00:17:43