Ali decides to go back into medicine part-time, with shifts in emergency medicine (2021)
project history · status: lapsed · last event: paused (2021-11-30) · owner: Ali
Told alongside: Ali's one-year sabbatical from medicine (2020)
About: Emergency medicine
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-14 | announced | In March 2021, eight months after he last set foot in a hospital, Ali has decided to go back into medicine. | Why I Left Medicine (And Why I'm Going Back) 00:10:26 |
| 2021-03-14 (happened 2021-01) | milestone | In mid-January 2021 an emergency medicine consultant at Ali's local hospital agreed to give him extra shifts in the emergency department, despite his lack of experience there. | Why I Left Medicine (And Why I'm Going Back) 00:21:01 |
| 2021-03-14 | setback | Ali cannot return to work as a doctor until his criminal records check clears; six weeks on, it is still being processed. | Why I Left Medicine (And Why I'm Going Back) 00:21:31 |
| 2021-10-20 | setback | Ali is still thinking about medicine but leaning towards leaving it completely. (hedged) | Everything's Changing - Life Update 00:39:04 |
| 2021-11-30 | paused | Ali tried a few part-time shifts in medicine but found them nowhere near as much fun as his work online, and has decided to leave medicine for good. | Why I Left Medicine... Forever 00:04:40 |
What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2021-05-26 · How To Figure Out What You Want To Do With Your Life — Ali's ideal ordinary week two years from now has team meetings on Mondays from 10 to 1 and full days in the emergency department, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., on Tuesdays and Fridays. — 00:06:52
- 2021-10-20 · Everything's Changing - Life Update — Ali's plan had always been to do medicine part-time for fun, maybe training in emergency medicine, with YouTube on the side; when Lewis Howes asked whether he really enjoyed it, he answered honestly not really, as teaching is his passion. — 00:37:13