Would you leave a highly respected job that paid over $600,000 a year if you felt like a fraud? This was the question that Goobie, a neurosurgeon with 20 years of experience, had to wrestle with when he found out his practice could fix his patients’ problems but never fully heal them.
The MIT graduate quit last year after a 9-year struggle with ethical concerns he describes were “killing” him.
“The way healthcare is set up in the country is to make hospitals money so they can grow,” he confessed in a YouTube video uploaded on July 9, 2024. “If you figure out a way to help patients heal and in [a] way [that] doesn’t include a pill or a surgery, then the hospital and doctors are in big trouble because then [they] can’t charge them.”
