Indoctrinated as the Fixer: The Trap in Medical Training

Medical training teaches you that you're the fixer — the solution provider, delivering healthcare to the masses. This clip names the trap in that: most of what determines a patient's health is entirely outside your control, yet you've been programmed to believe that not fixing someone means you've failed, that you are a failure. A hard look at a fundamental flaw in the Western conceptualization of medicine and healing — and the untenable position it places clinicians in.

Part of Roots of Care, a series on whole-person, trauma-informed primary care. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVtaeaNoZCQ4