Many of us would love to get out of the industry... but after years of training, hundreds of thousands in debt from med school loans or starting a practice, it’s easier said than done. And no, most of us didn’t realize just how malignant the culture could be until too far in. As a student, and even a resident, you are shielded from a lot.

I would love to have met your surgeon parent, cause I have never in my career met a surgeon who wasn’t a prick at least on occasion, and most are assholes the majority of the time. If every surgeon with a personality disorder just “got the hell out of the industry” it would leave nobody to perform surgery.