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What happens when the career you spent decades building no longer feels like the career you want for the rest of your life?

In this episode of Emergency Minute, Dr. John Parente sits down with emergency physician and entrepreneur Dr. Patrick O’Malley to talk candidly about burnout, career disillusionment, financial freedom, entrepreneurship, and what it takes to build a meaningful “second half” in medicine.

Patrick shares why he ultimately left clinical emergency medicine in 2025, how physician coaching helped him recognize that it was time for a change, and the two questions that fundamentally changed the way he viewed his career: Does emergency medicine still have something to offer you—and do you still have something to offer emergency medicine?

They discuss why physicians should begin thinking about financial flexibility and alternative career paths long before burnout reaches a breaking point, and how Patrick gradually transitioned from clinical medicine by building his Laceration Course and other entrepreneurial projects rather than making an abrupt exit.

Patrick also introduces Shift Change, his community designed to help physicians, PAs, NPs, and other clinicians connect with entrepreneurs, coaches, investors, technology experts, and other professionals who can help turn an idea into something real. His goal isn’t to convince clinicians to leave medicine—it’s to give them more options and help them build careers that better fit the lives they want.

Topics include physician burnout, career longevity, coaching, work-life balance, financial planning, side hustles, entrepreneurship, social media, networking, non-clinical careers, and building your next chapter in healthcare.

Learn more about Patrick and the Shift Change community at myshiftchange.com.

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