I’m Ryan Fightmaster, MD. I graduated from medical school, completed residency, and earned my board certification in psychiatry, while never wanting to be a doctor. Why? Because being a doctor was easier than being myself. In the fall of 2022, I left medicine (including my $400K/year job while owing $200K in student loans) to find fulfillment in writing, restoring old furniture, and surfing. Expect a new essay to release every Thursday afternoon. Join my newsletter (https://fightmastermd.com/newsletter) and get first book for free today.
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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Read this essay: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/03/21/before-i-learned-how-much-i-needed-to-change/
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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.
To get where I want to go, some things cannot be sacrificed, like the present.
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Every Friday morning, I send an email from the trenches, where I'm working to build a life I love. If you'd like camaraderie on your own journey, follow this link to join our community.
The biscuit tastes like shit without a dash of risk.
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Every Friday morning, I send out an email, seeking camaraderie on the trail to a life we love. If you’d like join me, sign up here.
When you're no longer interested in looking back, it's time to stake something in the ground.
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Over nine years, I learned the implication of unrequited pride: in the truthful places.
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On Amazon and Kindle, get my first book for $2.99 (a limited-time sale). Thank you to everyone who's supported the book's launch. Let's keep livin' a life we love.
There are some things, once compromised, that the health food store's promises can't even keep alive.
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Now available on Kindle, you can purchase my first book 32 Lessons from 8 Years Lost in Medicine. For all the support since its launch, I cannot thank everyone enough. Let's keep on livin' a life we love.
Snoozing is harmless. Everyone snoozes, I thought to myself, when I chose to snooze today. After all, it's only nine minutes.
But nine minutes matters. Ask my throbbing ankle.
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My first book, 32 Lessons from 8 Years Lost in Medicine, just published on Amazon. If you’d like a copy of the e-book, here’s a link to purchase.
I don't always know why I'm doing things. If it feels right, I try to trust the process. But on Monday, after an episode of inverse déjà vu, I knew precisely why I did what I'd done: 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨.
( I recently published my new book 32 Lessons from 8 Years Lost in Medicine. If you’d like to a copy, here’s a link to purchase the e-book.)
I exercised. I slept. I hung out with friends. I meditated. And yes, I was happy. But something was missing. I always knew it.
Last week, I published my new book 32 Lessons from 8 Years Lost in Medicine. If you’d like to a copy, here’s a link to purchase the e-book.
There comes a point where one must be unreasonable. You have no choice.
This week, my new book 32 Lessons from 8 Years Lost in Medicine released on Amazon. If you'd like to buy a copy, here's a link.
Link to this week's essay: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/01/11/if-its-reasonable-its-a-lie/
People ask my wife and I why we moved to Asheville. Often, we haven’t had an explanation other than it felt right. Often, I've thought we’re kinda crazy. But last night, I felt a little less crazy and a little more alive, knowing that there in a shed while picking up furniture I couldn't wait to get to work on, my mountain biking stoke had survived to the other side, alive and well in Asheville.
It only took me eight years to figure out a back-handed compliment
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Don’t worry about me, I have no strip clubbing to purge from my system, no “legs and eggs” brunches calling my name; but I do own another desire, one I neglected a decade ago, that I reckon with now as I start a different career.
Until December 31st, I’m sending free copies of my book to anyone who signs up for my newsletter. You can join my community here and get your book today.
Seriously, you’re trying to make $50 off a coffee table? You have $200,000 in student loans! Wake the hell up! This isn’t going anywhere!
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