About this episode

Dr. Graham Walker interviews Dr. Orange, a primary care physician who anonymously shares the struggles of modern medicine and the challenges faced by early-career doctors.

Dr. Orange is a primary care physician, one year out of residency, practicing somewhere in the United States at a health system she can't name. She posts on TikTok as a talking orange, with her face obscured and her voice altered, because showing up as herself would cost her too much. Her employer might find out. Her patients might lose confidence in her. And after years of training and too much debt, she cannot afford either. What she says from behind that mask is not radical. It is what physicians say to each other in workrooms, in parking lots, in group texts that will never see the light of day. That the job is not what they signed up for. That the administrative burden is crushing. That corporate medicine has turned patient care into customer service. That they feel like children being managed by a system that owns them. She said it anyway. Thousands of people have found her. In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Dr. Orange for the most candid conversation about the state of medicine you will hear from a physician who is still inside it. They cover the financial trap that keeps early-career doctors locked in jobs they want to leave, the…

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