 Baby can't overtake me. I'm sorry. All right get out here. Welcome back to the channel everybody for those of you Who are new around here? My name is Michael aka dr. Chalini, and I'm a board certified diagnostic and interventional radiologist now We haven't done one of these Q&A type videos and that stands for question and answer for those of you who didn't know That and we're going to do another one today because it's been so long and as always well Not always as of the last one I did I was joined by a very special guest someone who hasn't been on my channel In a very long time someone who has been on youtube in a very long time. Please welcome my lovely wife, Andriana She always goes to the other side. Sorry Wrong side you have to speak into the microphone as well. Wow. This is a new device. This is fancy now So this is Andriana for those of you who don't know she will be reading off the questions today I have not seen these questions. I don't even know what question she's going to read off But we'll see what happens. All right. Do you have anything to say to yourself to the audience? Not to yourself. No. Cool. What a good start This is your phone time. She has her phone and she's doing a Live chat with someone about returning her product while we're doing The refund status Would you say at this point in your career that medicine was worth it? Also, do you have any advice for non-traditional pre-meds? Yes I think I've done a whole video on that right where I said it's I think I've actually done an entire video That says yes, it was worth it So maybe they're not a true subscriber to my channel. Well, put the link right over here Yeah, put the link up here. I think it's literally called was it worth it? But yes, it was worth it I love my job. I love where I'm at right now. It was all worth it in the end training was terrible This whole long process was awful. But now I paid off. All right question number two Did you start investing in rental properties while in medical school? Do you pay cash for homes you own by yourself or do you finance them something a little bit out of the medical space? Yeah, it is did I do it in med school? No, we bought when did we buy our first home two years ago? Two years ago. Yes, two years ago. So I was in oh, yeah, I was in fellowship I don't think that would have been possible as a med student I had zero dollars. Maybe not even like the first couple of years of residency. Yeah, actually all of residency I don't think that would have been possible. Honestly. What was the other part of the question? I forgot Did you pay for them in cash? Oh, no, we did not pay for them in cash We put a down payment We put 25 down on each house The reason we did that is because you don't want to spend all your cash on one house when you can have cash flow from Multiple houses being rented out simultaneously. So contrary to what the kind of older mentality is You don't really pay for your house in cash unless you have like boo-koo boo-koo's of money. Is that the right word boo-koo? I've never heard of that. Don't ask me Boo-koo boo-koo money. I just think of merci boo-koo. Anyways next one. Would you like to do more travel videos? What do you think? Sure. Babe, you're hitting my camera. Oh, sorry I think you base it on how you feel like sometimes you just kind of want to enjoy your trip and not videotape it but other Video record videotape But other times I feel like other times I feel like it's just natural just to kind of film If we're just kind of casually strolling. So I don't know. I guess you kind of do it in the moment But when you're watching this video, we will be in spain. So maybe we'll videotape that Maybe after this video releases, there will be a travel vlog in there at some point I don't know yet because again, it depends on my mood. Okay. Last time we went to church's and cake house on our vacation Oh, well, that's that's just more like a relaxation what there's not much to videotape besides us swimming at the beach So it'll probably be yeah, we didn't do anything that trip But it'll probably this is more of an adventurous trip because we're going like different places in spain So maybe it'll be easier to travel vlog this Did you finish paying off your student loans? No Link to the video up here where I talked about why I'm not paying off my student loans Okay. Well, I'm I'm still paying off my student loans, but I'm not paying off like a lump sum So watch the video you'll understand if you had total control over a hospital for a year In what ways would you improve the radiology department? I like that question. Wow That's probably the best question. I've ever been. Yeah, even another follower commented saying nice questions Really? Yeah, that's probably the best question. I've ever been asked. What would I do differently? I think that question is so broad in terms of like all things radiology efficiency is key So I think the workflow is everything you have to make the images make sure the images come in Make sure everything's uploaded the indication so that the radiologist can just like keep trucking through and in terms of ir You just gotta have the patients down and ready to do procedures to make sure everything's done efficiently and safely But that's kind of a broad answer and I would like to go into depth more about this Oh, maybe you should do a video on that. Yeah, but I don't know how I would like discuss what I would do I don't know. Maybe we'll think about it. Sorry for not answering that correctly I would have to go into like every specific example of how I would change it and that's really tough in time to To me Okay What is something you would say to your younger self with the knowledge and experience you have now? I have another good question. What would I say to myself? Yeah, keep working hard. Don't stop Would you change anything? I wouldn't change anything. That's good Maybe the only thing I would change would be to Mature earlier and find out my true passion earlier rather than it taking so long So like obviously I took a nontraditional path into medicine So I finished college started working in real estate and then finally figured out a couple years later that I wanted to Go back to school to go to med school. So if I didn't have to do that, I would have been out now for like multiple years So that would have been better. So that's something I do regret But that's just that probably shaped you who you are though If you didn't have those years of experience in another field, totally probably wouldn't have found your passion. Totally agree Yep, it all works out in the end next question All right Well, my arm is about to break off a lot of people have been asking I'm just going to combine a couple of questions just as for my IR nurse here all the doctors I worked with what a big fancy house after fellowship Can you explain your financial decision to continue to run? Is there a rationale you're following or just Didn't find something you like. Thanks. Love the channel and another person asked. Why are you still renting? Then someone will have a comment because he's probably in debt and he's smart Many MDs get into debt way over their heads. That's very true. All those answers are true First of all, we started a new job in a new state in a new area that we're unfamiliar with so We wanted to yeah buying a house immediately when I don't really know if the job is gonna work out If the area I'm gonna like or all that stuff I think it'll be too soon to just jump into a house because what if I didn't like the job and like three months later I wanted to leave then I have to sell a house blah blah It's much easier to just like be in a rental and not have to worry to the market that oh, yeah The market now is just absolutely insane and then three I think space wise for the just the two of us that kind of works I think it's kind of easy to have an apartment where you can just kind of close your doors And kind of go away and not have to worry about much of the maintenance Plus, I mean we did buy how we have houses. We just don't live in any of them. Ultimately. Yes We will probably buy a home. Yes sometime most certainly Just don't know that will that we will actually live in correct. Yes. Oh, yeah buy a home for ourselves Yes, okay next question. I lost the questions. Oh, no, how did you lose the questions? I don't know Coming back. It's all coming Okay What advice would you give people in their early undergrad years who are hesitant to go into medicine because of Corporatization and provide our burnout I would say you are on to something because that's very much Something to think about but I think there's burnout in every job. Just it depends on the degree of burnout There is a lot of burnout in medicine So I encourage you to go out and really shadow doctors and see what it's all about and see what the day to day is Actually like because it varies across specialty across private practice Academic and all that stuff. So you'll find out if it's right for you But also so many doctors told me not to go into medicine because they were burnt out and then I did it anyways I think if you have a good work life balance, it doesn't really matter. Yeah, that's key work life balance is key What investment opportunities would you recommend for medical students to help get us started or even to begin building our portfolios and someone commented research the most popular medical procedures then find out the corresponding manufacturer Then ensure they are included in your portfolio I mean, I don't know if I agree with researching the best companies that you do procedures with or whatnot because a lot of the Procedural companies, especially the new ones don't make a profit. So this market those companies are doing terribly I mean even the apples of the world are doing terribly right now in this market So what I would do this is not investment advice, by the way The first thing I would do is use the link in my description join weeble Which is a trading app and if you use that link you'll literally get six free stocks If you just deposit one cent, so it's free money So you should do that first and then this is not financial advice But you should probably invest in like ETFs just something safe like total market index funds like VTI or the s&p 500 VOO stuff like that or the SPY. That's what I would probably do and open a Roth IRA next question You almost poked me in the eye. Oh no, I would have given you a corneal abrasion No, no I started medical school in a few months if you could do medical school over again What would you do differently? These are all about medical school, huh? No, I threw in some financial advice. Well, that's true. If I could do it all over again, what would I do differently? Nothing Honestly, I don't know what I would do differently. I feel like everything worked out the way I wanted it to So I would just work just as hard as I did this time again. You want to switch over to Instagram now? No, we forgot the most important question. We did. Yes our poor instagram folks are doing. How's andriana doing? I'm great. Thank you for asking. That was the most important. Yep. Okay. All right Tips for couples when one is in medical school and the other is not. What do you think? Michael and I weren't dating when he was in medical school, but I guess probably for the better Yeah, I guess residency doesn't really compare just because you kind of have more of a real life schedule and more of a life I don't think I could have dated her in medical school because I was in the library every single day Like nonstop for at least the first two years. The third and fourth year were different But I feel like you just you just don't have time to devote anything to a relationship during those two years So it would be really hard and also the person you're dating who's not in medicine doesn't really understand what you're doing through Which is why you'll see so many couples get together in medical school because they like understand Each other and what they're going through because you really don't know unless you experience it How are PA's utilized in IR? Okay, let's let's go a much Should I get on my high horse here for like the millionth time here people always say like oh, blah, blah, blah We cannot function in IR without PA's or MPs. We need them to help us do procedures We need them to help us do orders. We need them to do Consults like we literally wouldn't even be able to do my job without PA's We have a team of PA's that worked with us and even then we just need more because there's so many procedures and so many consults and like orders and like constantly coming in that you just you have to have them They're essentially a necessity period I guess Michael really advocates for Well, this is non-biased because I'm married to one if I I guess would go back or choose another specialty To practice medicine and I think I would choose IR I really like the way that PA's are utilized in IR and I really like the way that your practice and your hospital utilizes PA's So I always recommend like any new grad PA to kind of scope out the IR scene Nice mix of procedures and medicine and consults and you know interacting with patients Kind of like a little bit of everything and this isn't just in private practice Because PA's are used in every academic place. I've ever worked in as well Like again, even with residents you can't function without PA's or you probably could function But I guarantee if your hospital or department hires PA's it'll function like exponentially better that goes for IR I can't say it for any other specialty, but IR specifically. It's almost a must next question All right, tell us a time when all three dr. Chalini's got into trouble as a kid I got into the most trouble as a kid and I'm the middle child, you know, I have middle child syndrome I'm always up to no good high school. I was never very needy. Yeah, very needy I never did anything bad, but I was just always like, you know getting in trouble at school or something I don't know. I wasn't a good kid, but I wasn't like you didn't answer the question Was the time of all three of you? Oh, we're all three of us. Oh, I don't know. I can't remember. I don't even know I don't remember my childhood like you do though. Yeah, he has a bad memory She remembers like everything from kindergarten comment below for the people who don't remember anything from like elementary school I barely I don't even know what the halls of my elementary school looked like She can remember like what she got on a quiz in second grade. All right. Make no sense We'll do one more one more one more What would you be if you were not a doctor? I would be I probably do a full-time youtube I thought that doesn't count Um, I would do your your youtube started from medicine. So you can't actually say that. I don't know. What would I be? I mean, I don't know. Maybe like stockbroker All right. Dr. Chilini would it be a stockbroker real estate developer? Really? I don't know. I like that stuff Oh, all right. Yeah. All right. So send us out. Okay one moment. I have to read Why do you have to get so high up? Send us out All righty So if you enjoy this youtube video make sure you like and subscribe to dr. Chilini's channel And if you like to see more guest appearances Then make sure you double like On this youtube video follow me on instagram and tiktok follow andriana on instagram And maybe her youtube channel. Maybe she'll put out content once in the next two years Someone someone did ask that question. Oh, of course. So, you know, it's a little sleepy over there on her channel But as always, we'll see you all on the next video. Bye. Bye. Oh, you're breaking my leg