Fightmaster MD Audio
A weekly treatise on committing to one’s heart instead of hiding inside a career of acclaim, acceptance, and complacency. In 2022 at 33 years old, I left my career as a doctor, where I could earn $400,000 per year. I owed $200,000 in student loans. I quit because that life was killing me. And it wasn’t medicine’s fault. I have plenty of friends who love medicine, who love taking care of patients. It was my fault; I never wanted to be a doctor. I needed to find out what I wanted. My life was on the line. Since, I’ve started a furniture company. That was a surprising plot twist. And I write. Every Thursday, I pen an essay aimed at sharing what it took (and what it takes) to own a life I love, and share the audio version here. If you’d like to join one of my free courses or check out other things (including books) that I’ve written, head over to my website https://fightmastermd.com/ Join my newsletter (https://fightmastermd.com/newsletter) and get first book for free today.
Episodes
I never denied it. But I never fully accepted it. In the end, this diabetes delusion led me into medical school. And now, finally, into an understanding of who I've always been. ---
Essay Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/08/15/25-years-later-i-accept-my-type-1-diabetes-diagnosis/
Type 1 Diabetes Physiology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfyGv-xwjlI
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I thought I was fooling people, but I was only fooling myself. Everyone, deep down, knows if we're about it... or not. And I figured out the tell.
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Read this essay on my website: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/07/25/knock-knock-i-wasnt-home/
I thought it best to leave medicine behind me. It was just an eight year chapter that I wished to never repeat, right? Two years of time has revealed a surprising opposite: I can't survive without it. ----
Essay Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/07/18/cant-live-with-it-cant-live-without-it/
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Just because you leave an adolescent age (and enter medical school... and become a doctor... then become a psychiatrist), doesn't mean adolescence leaves you. Or so I've lived and understood, only now, at 35 years old.
Better late than never.
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Erikson's Stages of Development
When it's all said and done, I hope to own a collection of choices that helped me understand who I am. And I hope I made the right ones because they're going to impact everyone I know.
We're all in this together. ...
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Essay link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/07/03/the-eternal-impact-of-one-choice/
For the past eight years, I've been afraid to pause, scared to rest, and reticent to enjoy. Unconsciously, I knew I couldn’t bear the risk. But now, I consciously understand I must.
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Essay Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/06/27/a-first-in-many-moons-the-hunt-stops/
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We play the game of our life to discover who we are. That and other revelations had while watching my wife's tennis tournament. ...
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Read this essay on my website: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/06/20/what-does-it-mean-to-lose/
When I look back now, it seems I always meant to be a psychiatrist. Out of necessity. If I wanted to open up a door into a future that wasn't just a replication of my past, becoming a shrink was always the skeleton key.
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Book link: 32 Lessons from 8 Years Lost in Medicine
Essay link: Written in the Stars: Psychiatry and Me
They say, "Wherever you go, there you are." I'd like to add, "and so follow your object relations." When I went to medical school for my family, I unwittingly melded medicine and family together. Only after I left, could I see the two as separate, make peace, and gratefully love them both.
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Turns out, owning a sense of self kinda matters. Essay Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/05/23/how-little-everything-else-matters/
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Life was "... not so clear to me as I have for a long time imagined." Thanks to Rousseau, I've seen my motivations for what they are: obscured by the lies of my whys... until I'm ready to see the truth.
Today's essay link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/05/16/all-my-whys-were-lies/
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I went to medical school to secure my family's love. I found out what love really is while becoming a psychiatrist. And ultimately, I left medicine to put that love into practice.
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Link to today's essay: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/05/09/the-hardest-gift-to-give/
Good days deceive. Bad days reveal. Thanks to my dad, I remembered the difference.
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Essay link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/05/02/a-lit-match-away-from-internal-combustion/
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The only way to live a life without regrets is to have regrets. Regret is where our story starts... as I came to understand this week by watching The Devil Wears Prada. ----more----
Article Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/04/25/the-betrayal-the-regret-the-wholeness-deliverance-by-the-devil-wears-prada/
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I wasn't one for the jungle gym. I'm a kickball guy. I knew that once, it's just taken me awhile to remember it.
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Essay Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/04/04/kickball-beats-the-jungle-gym/
To play the game, the battle to figure out who we are, we have to pay the cost of admission. House rules.
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"Fighty, we're all on the road back to who we were in high school."
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Along with the wrong lessons, I lived out a few of the right ones too. My first book is a summary of all 32 of those lessons, available now on Amazon.
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