Doctor left medicine and went to the mountains – the reason

“Dr. Jobe” – not his real name – was a physician, educated at MIT.

He worked as a neurosurgeon for 10 years, but decided to give up his career and leave everything behind.

Goobie — who has a YouTube channel called Goobie and Doobie — explained that he has always been interested in how the brain and consciousness work.

“I’ve been more unhappy than ever…”

When he got his first job, he remembers, something went wrong. Although he was well paid, had good support and good colleagues, he was very unhappy.

“I was more miserable than ever and I couldn’t understand why,” he says today.

He recalls that he had just gotten married, and although his wife tried to help him, he couldn’t describe what made him feel this way.

“There were too many and I couldn’t help them.”

Primarily, in his day job, Goobie performed spinal surgeries on patients with lower back pain.

“It’s like you had a house and the roof had a leak somewhere, and rainwater got in, destroying the drywall,” he explained.

Although he has helped many people, Joby said there are “many more” he can’t help.

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After trying to understand why he felt so unhappy, he realized that most of his surgeries did not solve patients’ problems.

“What I was doing was doing the surgeries I knew how to do, but they weren’t correcting the problem,” he explained.

Joby realized that other factors, such as diet, sleep, and exercise, were much more important.

the problem

The former doctor explained that the way hospitals are organized does not always correlate with full assistance to patients.

“The way things are arranged is that the hospital has to make money, and it has to make money. They need to grow economically,” he said.

“The problem is, if you find a way to help patients get well, and that way doesn’t involve pills or surgery, then the hospital and the doctor are going to be in big trouble. Because if you find a way to help people get well and you can’t charge them for it, you’re just going to lose your job.

“The incentives are wrong”

“I really felt that medicine wasn’t focused in the right place,” Jobe continued. “It wasn’t about healing, it was about making money from surgeries and pills.

“I’m not criticizing any particular place I work. I work in very good hospitals and people are well-intentioned, but the incentives are not right across the system.”

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Realizing all of the above, Goobie decides to quit his job for good.

“The motives weren’t right. Once I realized what was happening, it was a huge problem for me morally.”

“I was doing something I no longer believed in. When you let go of something you hold on to so tightly, even if it hurts you, and let it go, you’re able to have something else that I hope is better for you.”

Dr. Goobie now spends a lot of time in nature with his dog Doobie, documenting their travels and adventures and sharing the footage with his followers.

“I wanted to spend some time outside, help my dog ​​live a full life, and capture those moments so that if I live beyond Doobie, I can look back on them,” she said.