 Welcome back to the channel, everybody. For those of you who are new around here, my name is Michael, AKA Dr. Cellini. I'm a board certified interventional radiologist in New Jersey. Now let's go ahead and address two. Well, that's four. Two elephants in the room. Actually, there's three elephants in the room. One, this is a brand new chair I'm sitting in. It only took six months to arrive in my house. We're making progress. Two, whatever this is on my face right now, this is just me being lazy. I just got back from Paris and I haven't shaved. Even though I've been working all week, I've just been a little lazy. What can you do? And number three, when I got to Paris, I had a real bad cold and I'm recovering from it now. This is now like a week later and I'm still stuffed up. So I sound a little sick, but I'm doing very well. I'm no longer sick. And I do not have that virus causing the pandy-wandy because you have to get tested before you come back to the US. So there we go. So now I'm just kind of struggling my way through this video. So I apologize if I sound a little sickly. So that was a long intro, but nonetheless, we have a great video for you today. It is along the similar lines of a recent video I did, link up here where we're talking about quitting med school. I think now that I'm in the YouTube algorithm, these videos just pop up on my feed and this one popped up today. So I was about to click on it and then I was like, no, no, no, let's go ahead and do a reaction video. So that's exactly what we're doing today. Let's react to my husband quitting med school. I'm really curious to see why all these people are quitting med school. But I guess we'll find out in this video. Haven't seen the video yet. This may be a two minute video because this may be an awful video, but let's go ahead and get into it. Let's go. All right. So I'm adjusting to this new chair here. I'm trying to see like it's a little taller than usual, but nonetheless, I still think we can do it. So let's get into the video. That didn't work. Okay. Hello, YouTube. Hey, let me go ahead and stop the video because I have no idea who these people are. So let me give a shout out to them since I'm doing a video on them. Madison Mealy and her husband Blake. I don't know what year of med school he is. She's not med school he is apparently from just the caption that I read. Life kind of got in the way and we stepped back from YouTube for a little bit. Never take a step back from YouTube. We are just going to answer some of the main questions that we've been getting, at least on my Instagram. The first question is what happened? Why did you drop out of med school? So he actually dropped out of med school. I need to know more information here. I need to know what year this guy is. I need to know a little more details. Maybe they'll all get into it, but I'm missing out. Also, sorry if I sniffled during this. Apologies. Thanks for fine, in my mind. I definitely did not think that Blake was going to be dropping out. There's no part of me that would ever happen. I wonder if he just randomly just dropped that on her and was like, hey, by the way, are they married? Oh yeah, my husband. I wonder if he just showed up one day and was like, oh, by the way, I dropped out. I got a call from Blake and he was having like an anxiety attack and just like hyperventilating. And I initially thought when he first called me, called me that like he was hurt. This is like very common. The stress of med school is so mind-blowingly real that you really can't relate to it until you've actually been to med school. And it's hard to really prepare someone for the stress that you endure. And it's not just in the pre-clinical years. It's all throughout med school. And then the stress that's involved in residency is like three times as much, maybe like 10 times as much. And the stress never really ends and it's still kind of stressful to this day. But nonetheless, I think Androna will tell you even in intern year, there's been a few different times where you just get like so stressed out. And I've actually, literally, this is crazy. Like I've literally gotten so stressed out before that I just wanted to like crawl under my desk and just like sit in the corner and cry to myself. That's how stressful this can be. And I'm not one of those people that like, you know freaks out and like has panic attacks and stuff, but it can be so stressful, even for people who are like sexual multi-taskers who can handle all the stress in the world, it's stressful. So I'm curious to see what's his breaking point. You can explain it just quickly, kind of what happened that day. Like nothing happened, but like kind of like what happened that week. Nothing happened is the first day of a new rotation is inpatient internal medicine. Okay, so he's third or fourth year med student. And that's pretty far into med school to be, you know, quitting, dropping out. I mean, that's over halfway. So he's already done like the harder parts of med school. And then, so I guess he's, or maybe he's in a different place where they do like pre-planetary years first. I don't know. I clearly have done zero research. Actually, let me do some research. Pause please. That way you guys know what the heck is going on here. They say they're influencers, but they just started a channel. So, oh wait, oh, she's a big influencer. Didn't even know. I guess I don't have a family yet, so I can't really relate. But I'm really curious to see, hold on a second. I'm going to do this research for you all. So you don't have to do this. He has to have like a white coat ceremony, something along those lines, comma, comma. Okay, so in short, I have no idea where he's going to med school or where he went to med school because I can't find anything. Maybe someone in the comments can tell me below. Also, while you're down there, smash the subscribe button please because a lot of you all, like over 50% of you watch my videos all the time and you don't subscribe. So just go ahead and hit that little red subscribe button. It doesn't cost you anything. I've never really had any experiences with anxiety before, but I started to feel like breathing was becoming really hard. Like my breaths were super shallow and like my vision was changing a little bit. So I told the resident like, hey, like I'm having like a small crisis. I'm going to have to leave for the day. In general, a lot of med students are very much like the last people who are going to take time off a rotation. If they're sick, they're going to work. Physicians as a whole tend to refuse to take time off. And the fact that someone who is obviously determined and worked this hard so far to get in med school and all the above, for them to come to like a resident or an attending and be like, hey, I really need the day off because something's going down, get the day off. I mean, everybody needs mental health day, but clearly what he was battling was something a little more and we'll get into it shortly. So I always assumed that medical school wouldn't be super fun and it wasn't. At least not for me. See, medical school is fun. It's not fun for everybody, but if it's right for you, it actually is pretty fun, regardless of how hard the work is. When we started medical school, it wasn't because I had a huge passion for healthcare or I wanted to be a doctor since I was in second grade. I just thought that it would be a great job, a super secure, dependable way to provide for my family. That is true. So a lot of people go into med school. Myself included, this was one of the biggest decisions for me is obviously I love medicine. You all probably know that by now if you've seen any of my videos, but for me, it was also about stability. So you have a stable career that makes pretty decent salary the rest of your life you're always going to be needed. The stability part, it's one of the very unique fields. And as we've learned from the pandemic, it's not that unique because there were a lot of layoffs of physicians, but nonetheless, it's a very stable field overall. Throughout years one and two, which are purely academic and especially when I got into year three. Wow, so he is over halfway in med school when he quit. That's insane. You know what I'm thinking about, student loans, because now you have like $120,000, $150,000 student loans and you better have a good job to pay for those because those are gonna start piling up. I was staying in it because I thought that if I dropped out or if I made a change, I would disappoint other people. So when I was a third year med student, a lot of the rotations I honestly didn't like. I liked being in the hospital. I liked seeing patients. I liked working as a team in healthcare as a whole. But a lot of the rotations I didn't like. And I was like, is this right for me? Until I found... Why does this always go off? I didn't really find my niche until I found radiology and I just stumbled on it one day, luckily. So I know exactly what he felt like. I'm very happy with my decision because throughout, not the whole time, but towards the end, towards my end, at the beginning of third year, I realized that I was just sticking it out because I was worried of what other people might think if I quit. I'm still kind of confused why he quit. Like, did he generally not like it that much? He couldn't do another year and a half or whatever. I wonder if he just found the right specialty if he would change his mind. Cause you can do anything in medicine. You don't have to be a clinician. You can be a pathologist. You can be an administrator. You can be a medical advisor to some board of a huge Fortune 500 company. Like, just get the MD or DO and it opens up a lot more doors. I'm surprised he didn't want to finish. I didn't want to be like a B grade doctor that didn't really want to be there, but I got stuck because of loans or because of routine and all these different things. Again, I just want to reiterate. I'm really surprised why he wouldn't just stick it out another year just to get his MD, DO and do something else. You can work for a big pharmaceutical company and be a medical director or chief medical officer of a big company or something. There's so many opportunities once you get that degree. You don't have to be a clinician. You don't have to be a radiologist. You don't have to be a pediatrician. There are so many avenues you can take. We feel so incredibly blessed to have my community on Instagram because without it, we would not have been able to stay debt-free. Oh, I guess he is debt-free or they are debt-free. I wonder how. Did they like donate to them or something? Why can't people donate to me to clear my debt? Just kidding. I wonder if his decision would have been even harder if he actually had like $100 plus thousand dollars and stood alone debt. Because that's when you started being like, you know, your head is under water, but good for them for having no debt. I thought that Blake really, really wanted to be a doctor always. And then that's when he kind of started opening up to me a little bit more, like, I don't know, like I haven't wanted to disappoint anyone. So I haven't been totally honest about like my feelings lately. And that's when he told me, and as soon as I heard like how things have been going, I was like, we haven't, we have other options. That's a supportive wife right there. They have a really good relationship. Clearly they communicate well. That is very awesome for them. I'm glad they can talk about this kind of stuff. A lot of people can't talk about this stuff and they feel guilty and all that stuff, but clearly it works out for them. It was a couple of months that I went by that I was having like small thoughts creep into my head like, are you sure you want to do this for the rest of your life? And, you know, think about your other options and you barely see the kids and I don't know, like you're not really enjoying your life right now. Keep in mind too, if he continued on, you don't have to be a full-time physician. We have part-time radiologists in our practice working a few times a week. That's not a bad life. Working, you know, eight to four, two or three days a week. It's not that bad. And he still made pretty decent money. So I don't know why he wanted to just go down the path, but clearly he did not like medicine and that's obvious. A huge question that I've been getting lately is, is like going to be an Instagram husband, a man fluencer if you will, now. No. Yeah, he'll be in my content more for sure. He's going to be around more, but I think. Which we are very excited about. I'm super excited to work more with Matt and just spend more time together. Is he going to work or just like work for her and do her business? It's clearly she does pretty well on Instagram with her big following and that can be pretty lucrative. So I guess they're kind of worked together on that. But I guess he's just done with it all. I don't know, to each their own. If this makes them happier, then all for it. Okay, and do you have advice for anyone wanting to go into healthcare with a family? Yeah, I had a classmate that had four kids at home and she drove two hours to campus. Whenever we needed to be there. And that's passion. That's passion. A lot of my classmates had children as well. A lot of my residents, co-residents had children. It's very feasible, very possible. Especially in the right specialty, radiology, that actually had a crop there. But yeah, it's definitely possible to have a family and be a physician and not be at the hospital all the time. Just to be completely honest, I don't have that level of passion. But it's seriously. And that's why you're done. You know, I give them props for actually realizing that because the hardest thing to do in life is make a huge change like this. I mean, you see so many people in like the corporate world per se who just work to get that paycheck and they actually hate what they're doing on a daily basis. I was one of those people. I did a whole video on why I quit the corporate world for medicine and I finally discovered my passion. So if he felt like I did when I was in the corporate world then I know exactly how he felt. And that is why I got the heck out of there. So kudos to him for making a big change and actually following through with it and following his passion. All right, so that is pretty much it. I guess I'm getting a lot of these videos lately and they're actually pretty good and I can offer some good advice for people who are probably in these shoes when I do them. So if you like them, let me know in the comments below. If you think I should shave, let me know in the comments below. I'll probably shave tonight regardless. But nonetheless, make sure you smash it. Like and subscribe button. Please subscribe to my channel. Don't be a lurker, be a follower. I'm not a follower, but a subscriber. Follow me on Instagram and TikTok if you don't already and I'll see you all on the next video. Bye.