What's the story with this guy?

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https://youtu.be/25LUF8GmbFU?si=e7qiDo42nKf4_rk3

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Does anyone recognize him?

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Essentially, he explained he got moral injury from doing countless spine procedures that ameliorate people’s pain without solving the root cause.

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The root problem is we all should be eaten by lions by our 40s.

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"I am an old neurosurgeon who had the amazing pleasure of working with Dr. Doobie for several years. People watching this video must understand that Dr. Doobie was and is an extraordinary neurosurgeon, physician, and human being. I've worked with many outstanding neurosurgeons, and Dr. Doobie is among the best I've met. Thoughtful, meticulous, and caring. His patients and everyone who worked with him loved him. And we were heartbroken when he left. He is a brilliant young man. You don't get to go to MIT and Johns Hopkins if you are not. In his residency, he was considered an up-and-coming superstar. He never let any of this get to his head and was always humble and nice.
Now, I don't fully share his perspective as I do think we help a lot of people. And he's right that a healthy, balanced lifestyle is key on your health. Unfortunately, few can or will develop this lifestyle. The rest of us don't know, how don't want to or can't get there.
I'm so happy that he's found peace. But I am sad that neurosurgery has lost a virtuoso neurosurgeon and a decent, compassionate physician. Maybe the answer is trying to find a balance where you can continue working (especially if in your work you help others) and develop and protect your personal life. The desired philosopher's stone, the famous work-life balance. A dream for most of us.
Thanks Dr. Doobie."

Found this comment from a neurosurgeon named Alex Mendez, seems like he was at Minnesota
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-mendez-2a52051a/

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worked in minnesota but graduated from Duke. betsy grunch mentions training with him in her comment video. real name is jonathan choi.

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He sounds like he was a great surgeon and a good person, but i'm not a fan of his reasoning here. Sounds like to me he had lofty expectations for neurosurgery, he wanted to create the next robot human Luke Skywalker and when he ended up treating LDD he felt dissatisfied and burned out. But just because he didn't view degenerative disease as important enough to morally satisfy him doesn't make it less impactful for the patients.

No shit having a patient lose weight and be healthier makes them feel better, it took you 10 years of practice for that to hit you? What about the 98% of patients who won't or can't do that? I'm sure he's a good guy but this is whiny BS appealing to the "healthcare is a scam" crowd. Just say you burned out and you wanted to spend time in the mountains with your family, perfectly acceptable reason, no need to bad mouth all of spine surgery.

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Patient selection is everything.

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his take is pretty bitchy and not reflective of 99% of the impact neurosurgeons make on their patient populations. super weak take on the impact on neurosurgical intervention and honestly pretty embarrassing.

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and sadly misleading from a general population understanding of neurosurgery which isn't all spine. I get it if you get depressed about doing lumbar cases all day but man don't drag down the rest of the cranial field with your midlife crisis.

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The lay media is really taking this seriously

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Hey all, Goobie here. Was just made aware of this forum from an old colleague of mine. The purpose of my video was not to bring down the field as a whole, but only to illustrate my personal reasons for why I felt dissatisfied and chose to leave the profession. While there are a lot of great surgeons out there who make impactful changes in patient's lives, the truth is that most of us do not end up helping people in any lasting, meaningful capacity. Hope everyone doesn't take that the wrong way!