Agree 100% Attending life is so much better than being a resident. The winter of Intern year I believe studies have shown has been most dangerous for burnout/depression due to the holidays occuring and you have such little time off and they are cold days with little sunlight. Not to mention Interns just not knowing what they are doing for most of the first year. It gets better! Our poor residents get I think 2 weeks of PTO, and that includes any time taken off if they get sick. I have 5 weeks PTO now and will up it to 6 weeks next year. I think your advice to consider your specialty carefully is important. Some specialties like Interventional Cardiology, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, or Trauma are just very hard to have your nights/weekends/holidays off and to work closer to a 40-hour week no matter how hard you try to find an accommodating health system. I work in Primary care and while the hours directly seeing patients are not so bad (8-5 Mon-Friday) there can be an additional 10-20 hours per week of in-basket work. (my colleague called the in basket work after seeing patients as "starting our second part time job"). I'd advise medical students to consider their specialty careful in terms of their passion as well as the anticipated lifestyle. Also do your best after graduating to avoid lifestyle creep. Once you buy your expensive dream car or get a mortgage for your dream house it can be difficult to give those things up if you desire to cut your hours.

Not seeing people and wanting to be in the dark do not sound like dealbreakers

Thank you Dr. Gupta for being an inspiring and motivating figure out here! Your videos really helped me choose radiology and I remain positive that every day of training makes tomorrow even better. Thank you :)

me (resident in surgical specialty) and my wife (med student) love to watch your videos , it really gives us hope that one day we can do what ever we want and enjoy our lives. thank you for sharing this content❤

PGY-1s need to watch this video. I agree with everything you say.
I am happy I didn't give up as a PGY-1 IMG.
PGY-3 IM resident here. Locked in and look forward to being done.

Great Video! If possible, can you make a video about how you felt during residency (i.e if there was any imposter syndrome, how to navigate feelings of like you are the only one struggling, etc)

Nice video! Great to know attending life is much better! Would you make a video on your attending job choice -- different PP/academic options and why you chose your current job?

Thank you for sharing your perspective on these topics!! Burnout is so prevalent nowadays and it's nice to have information to prepare ourselves for the future

Positive vibes. Thank you for being honest. Stay blessed.

Thanks for this positivity filled video!

Hi Doc Yasha! I'm a 1st-year radiology resident here in the Philippines. Thank you for being open to things about the field of radiology. Can I ask for any tips on how did you master anatomy?

it doesnt matter, residency has made me hate medicine, I literally laugh every time I look back on all the work I did to get into urology residency. Its a garbage job full of stress, its really sad actually. Now what once I graduate I get paid more money to do a shit job. Ive never met worse people in my life, insensitive uncaring and self important.  Its sad because I was a pretty happy dude and really did start like excited.  Literally anyone reading this go to AA school you can make 250k for sitting on your phone