Month: April 2025

Today, I’m closing our series, Things I Wish I Knew Before Quitting Medicine, with a topic close to my heart: standards and self-worth.
I’d like to start with a quote that changed my life years ago. Don Miguel Ruiz wrote:
“Nobody treats you worse than you treat yourself. If they did, you would have left immediately.”

In this post, I continue my series on “Things I Wish I Knew Before Quitting Medicine.” Today’s topic may resonate far beyond the world of healthcare: values and integrity.
This is no longer just a conversation about physician burnout—it’s about the spiritual crisis unfolding in our workplaces, and in our world.