Achieving Physician Freedom | Francis Yoo DO

What I am enslaved by is what everyone else expects of me, their vision of what I should be like.

Dr. Francis Yoo

On Finding Fulfillment

Dr. Taylor Brana: Can you tell me a little bit about what was making you feel like you wanted to achieve your own freedom? 

Dr. Francis Yoo:

“I was doing clinical medicine, precepting students, residents, vice-chair to family medicine departments. I was kind of in charge of some QA projects and I was also starting new clinics. And then I thought, okay. Am I going to be the CIO of a gigantic hospital system? And do I want to be the master QA person? Not really. Do I want to be in this kind of clinical practice for 20, 30, 40 years? Not really. I realized I was doing – I mean, I’m not saying those experiences were bad, but I realized if I kept going on that route that I’ll be basically living a life or lives that really other people want for me, it really benefited them more than it would have benefited me.

And I know physicians are very good at making sure other people are okay and over it themselves. And I thought, what I am enslaved by is really what everyone else expects of me, their vision of what I should be like. This picture of the doctor.

And that is something school does a lot. … When you get a board certification, it’s great. That means you’re certified. You pass all these examinations and this training.

But another way to look at it is, let’s say I’m a family medicine doctor, and I died, or I was fired. How did they find a replacement? Family and medicine board certified. It’s just, it’s just an easy way to say this is the bare minimum that I want you to be replaceable with. And it might be a little bit morbid or cynical, but I think it’s a perspective that I think is worth looking at. And I felt like that, replaceable.

What impact am I really making? My interests, things that I want to do, what I want to spend my attention on to help people. I’m not doing enough of that. And I realized I was trapped, but I was also trapped by my own perspective of what was possible in life for me.”

Achieving Physician Fulfillment

Dr. Francis Yoo has released two books this year, Physician Freedom: Living Your Authentic Physician Life, and Covid Contemplations: For Self-Awareness and Personal Development. Find them on Amazon and Indiebound.

Show References

In this episode, we discussed several entrepreneurs, courses and books.

• Dr. Christopher Loo’s recent interview on The Happy Doc 
• Dr. Mike Woo-Ming’s BootstrapMD course
• Tony Robbins & Dean Graziosi’s KBB course
• Ramit Sethi’s course and book, I Will Teach You To Be Rich
• Dr. Christopher Loo’s interview on Dr. Mike Woo-Ming’s Podcast, BootstrapMD (stream available)
• Dr. Frank H. Netter’s drawings
• Dr. Francis Yoo’s books, Physician Freedom and Covid Contemplations

Follow Dr. Francis Yoo on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and check out his website here. 

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