[vehicles2b]

I'm wondering, does anyone know what are the chances for returning to neurosurgery after an extended hiatus? Person in the video practiced for a decade (edit: nearly a decade of practice, and two decades total including training), I'm sure burnout is common in the field, but I wonder if people that left ever make their way back.

[silverquiet]

I'm more curious if he could re-specialize in a surgery that he finds more rewarding. I'd think orthopedics could provide very clear and quick resolutions for patients; hip replacement is known as the "surgery of the [previous] century" for having such clear quality of life improvement.

[chubot]

Yeah that was partly my reaction too ... Why not steer your career -- i.e. accept a temporary setback -- instead of walking away from the whole thing?

But it sounds like he already did that once. The first part of the video talked about how he wanted to specialize in brain-machine interfaces, and then he came to the belief that the approach would never work.

It did feel like he had very high expectations for himself. Almost a bit of a hero complex.

But I don't think that's a bad thing. I think we need people like this to tell us the truth sometimes!

It's not the whole truth, but what he's saying is definitely part of the truth.

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As a particular example, I have noticed that doctors and dentists don't talk to each other ... It's not overstating it to say "the system" essentially discourages that. But your body doesn't know anything about these divisions, and I agree with the observation that the mouth is one of the two main openings in the body and is central to health !!

i.e. the condition of your teeth are a good indicator of general health, not just dental health

This relates to the part of the video where he says: "if your body heals, it doesn't just heal the spine -- it heals everything"

It is comforting to know that people can see with what I think of as "blank mind" -- see and think from first principles -- rather than falling back on all the technical jargon that we use to justify ourselves and our jobs

[moneywoes]

why not? isn't their a shortage