Going Viral as a First Year Med Student with Amine

Preston: [00:00:00] It can make you feel powerless as though when the other shoe drops, you have no second chance. That's one thing I wish too. When people get something wrong, as a crowd, we're kind of like the French Revolution. We're like, take him to the guillotine. He finally fucked up his head's coming off and like people make mistakes, people have bad takes.

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Welcome back to How to Be a Patient, the podcast where Preston is flying solo for the first time ever. It's a solo episode with Preston and I have a guest, but before we get into the guest, so I'll take a moment and appreciate Margaret being on vacation right now. So if you're watching the video version, we're overlaying this beautiful photo of Margaret in Belize.

I think she's on a swing or something. I don't know. I'm, just getting like so jealous that it's hard for me to make out any specific details. She was actually supposed to send us a video, but I think she's vacationing so hard that she's like, honestly, guys, the photo's the best that's gonna happen.

And, I'm glad we got [00:01:00] anything, you know, because I'm pretty sure Margaret's completely converted to island time. And, I really hope those my ties are hitting and we'll do the best to, hold it down here in podcast land. So we have this, wonderful guest, this, his name is Amin. We're gonna introduce him in a moment.

Here he is. Y mean I believe on Instagram or TikTok. Essentially, he made a couple series of videos, which we're gonna play right now. 

Amine: Fuck going on with you. What? We got you coming in today? Twin. You said your stomach hurt, bro. Yeah. Does it go anywhere? It's like a sharp pain from the back pauses. Good.

We can take care of that for you though. We can take care of that for you though. You should wear my scrub pants. This shit.

Beloved. Beloved, we finna take care of you, beloved. [00:02:00] Don't even worry. I already put the orders in my boy. The orders are already in, bro. They already finna come dry your blood, bro. They already finna come dry your blood. Are you secure bro? We locked in like this. I'm gonna make sure you come out good bro.

I'm gonna make sure you come out.

Can I get you a. You no perk gang. Chill out. Boy. on my mama's not getting, no. 

Preston: So I, I know we, we cut it in post, but I'm still laughing 'cause it's funny to even think about these. It's, really this, fun series describing the different stereotypes of. Doctors engaging with patient populations.

So it, it got a little bit of excitement, but also got some backlash and that's kinda the purpose of today's podcast. And so, without further ado, let's get into the discussion with am mean.

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Preston: I mean, I would show you the socks that I'm wearing, but I'm too comfy under this cozy earth cuddle blanket to get up.

I'm actually not sure if I'll ever get up again. I might just live here. 

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Margaret: and in the meantime, we wish you a lot of emotion regulation. You're gonna need it for the rest of this episode, 

Preston: or at least a blanket.

Well, welcome back to how to Be Patient. I am flying solo today because Margaret is currently in, [00:04:00] Belize, so. I'm joined actually by a temporary cohost or a guest. This is Amin. 

Amine: Thanks. Thanks for having me. 

Preston: Yeah, we're glad to have you. And Amin, I, first came across your stuff when, you were doing this TikTok series, and I noticed you had a pretty small page.

I, I felt like almost like a venture capitalist investing early with some of your really high quality videos, which they did blow up. And I guess just to kind of give a little bit of summary, I, have my impression of it, but I kind wanna hear, like. What your inspiration was for posting on TikTok and, what's your handle again?

Is it Y Amin on TikTok? 

Amine: on, yeah, so on Instagram, it's Y Amin on TikTok, it's Amino Live with Two Eyes. and as far as inspiration right, for why I post TikTok videos, I feel like growing up I've always been a creative person, right? just naturally in anything I do. I've always been a creative person when I.

I got to college. I went to, UCR to [00:05:00] University Cal, California Riverside for my undergrad. a couple of my friends had, you know, some music equipment at their house. and I would go over and I just started, you know, kind of making music for fun. And one thing I had realized was when I was making music, I was like, why don't I sound good?

Not, you know, in, in terms of my music being good or whatnot. That's outta the picture, just sonically. Why don't I sound good? Why does Drake sound like the way he does? And I don't. So through that I just started just, you know, diving into it through YouTube, online, whatever I could find. I just started to figure out how do you make music sound, sound good?

Preston: It's like a mix, it's a mixer, right? NFL studio. There's certain like packages you can buy to sound more like Post Malone or Drake. Is that exactly this kind of rabbit hole you found yourself in? 

Amine: Okay. Exactly. Ing So I found myself, yeah, I found myself in the mixing rabbit hole. and I went to college in 2019.

So. 2020 came around and we all got sent home. I was, you know, the COVID [00:06:00] class. So I was at home doing nothing, but, you know, keeping up with my studies. And then what else did I have my computer? So then I just started looking into mixing more and learning about things more. and I would do it every single day, whether I was eating food, I was watching a mixing video, or if I was just chilling in bed.

I was watching a mixing video and I had no idea what anything meant. Like these guys were saying stuff that like, it sounded like rocket science. Just by watching, and like, you know, applying things here and there. I started to do it, you know, it, it started to make sense. I started to make things sound good.

I started to work with people in my, city. You know, later on once, you know, COVID restrictions kind of started going down a little bit. Word of God around some people from outta state heard about me. They came, I worked with them. They enjoyed my work, you know, and then I started going across the country for it.

So it was, amazing. Fast forward. You know, we can get into my life in music, you know, a little bit later, but fast forward, I want to go to med school. [00:07:00] I still do music for fun, but I still wanted a way to like, you know, express myself creatively. I've always been. Mm-hmm. I feel like. 

Preston: And how many years were you in music now before you went to med school?

Amine: So, let's see, 20, 19 to 20, 24, 5 years. 

Preston: So yeah, half a decade. Fully invested in music. I guess almost like instead of a language immersion program, you're, in a mixing immersion program. 

Amine: Mm-hmm. 

Preston: And now you're trying to find a way to unify this artistic interest with. Career. and to clarify, you're a, MS one, is that right?

Amine: Yeah, So MS one or OMS one? I'm actually a DO student. 

Preston: Okay. Okay. 

Amine: And this is one thing I should clarify. In undergrad, I was a bio major, so while I was doing music, I balanced music and, you know, undergraduate biology pre-med was like the thing from the, from the jump, if that makes sense.

It's just that I found music during college or university kind of was like, I don't need to do medicine anymore. I really like doing this. I'm really good at it. To then later [00:08:00] on, after I graduated, being like, I still want to be a doctor. Right. and then, yeah, as far as the TikTok videos go, that's kind of where the, a little bit of the motivation comes from is just that artistic drive, that creative drive that I feel like I naturally have.

and, you know, just a way to express myself. and from there, while I was in the app cycle, I started to kind of make these videos, you know, just occasionally. And yes, since then I've just been making videos. I was making a lot before med school started. Now that I'm in med school, it's kind of slowed down a little bit, but you know, whenever I get an idea, I'll jost something down.

Preston: I noticed you have a lot of different videos, but the ones that I think resonated the most with me and, kind of I think drew a lot of attention to your page were when you basically said, practicing for when I do residency and X place, and then 

Amine: mm-hmm. 

Preston: You almost kind of launch into, An accent and you, take on the mannerisms of, I think in some ways the stereotypes of people are there, but also in a way that I think is [00:09:00] like endearing and actually like validating to people that are like, from that culture.

I, you know, I think you did one for Ottawa. I'm, I've never been to Ottawa, but the, you know, the people, that comment seemed to resonate a lot with the work that you were doing, and I thought it was really interesting. So I think someone called you a cultural anthropologist. So I, we all have things we wanna express.

you know, I express many different things on my page, I guess through that series. What, was one part of yourself that you were kind of hoping to get at or to articulate? 

Amine: I think the, I feel like I'm a pretty diverse person. I feel like growing up I've been around a lot. My, like, I've kind of moved around like a decent amount.

Like I was born in Minnesota, super random, right? I lived in Oregon up until about the fifth grade. I moved to California from there, but in that time in between, living in Oregon from like the first of the fifth grade, I lived in Virginia for a little bit, and then I lived in Canada for a little bit, [00:10:00] Montreal, French speaking part of Canada.

Right. And then came down in California and you know. When I was living in California, when I was doing music, like I said, it took me to a lot of places. I went to Atlanta for the first time. I went to New York for the first time. I went to Chicago, you know, Miami. all these places that, have such a rich history in music.

Wherever music was, you know, for lack of better words, popping. That's where you could find me. 'cause that's where the work was. so I feel like what I was trying to get out with that video was one, like I feel, my diversity right? My ability to adapt in new places just because of the fact that I've been to so many new places with so many different crowds.

And as far as the objective of that video, while it being funny, was kind of like that patient physician trust relationship that I feel like is, you know, [00:11:00] because of. Outside circumstances kinda lacking in healthcare. Right. I see it with my own parents. 'cause I'm from Algeria, so we're not from, you know, we're not from the United States.

So it was something that I wanted to shine light in, you know, with comedy, because that's the type of person I am. I joke about everything. I'm very optimistic. It's everything. I put it in the light, not the dark. 

Preston: Comedy at its core is always a spotlight. And in, in a way, it's, it allows us to look at the hard parts of society without that same, I guess, painful reflex that you get.

You know, people are like, don't make me look at this, but if it's through the lens of comedy, they're like, it's okay, and you can kind of digest it more. One thing that kind of struck me actually watching that was how different cultures are between like, I guess the treating class and the treated class within healthcare and patients, so.

I mean, like I'm, wearing my like business like [00:12:00] fitted like business casual, white collar looking ass shirt right now. And even like other white people like you feel this kind of like rigid distance between you and that's, often furthered by the language that you use. And, ultimately, and, especially for me in psychiatry at, its core, the patient provider relationship is one of mutual trust, I guess.

And so. One thing I think you're kind of describing or you're getting at, and maybe this is something you'll probably learn a lot more about once you get into the clinical rotations and start actually, practicing residency is how important that relationship is. And that sometimes that the expense of traditional professionalism, you can build that rapport and actually provide better care to that patient.

Amine: No, I, definitely agree. I think, one way that, that I've thought about it almost is. Is the patient, kind of, kind of, there's a moment where they, when they realize like, oh, this guy's in touch, [00:13:00] you know, depending on, or a physician that's so out of touch, like, you're so out of touch with who I am, where I come from, what's my day to day.

Does that make sense? And 

Preston: yeah, 

Amine: even like mentioning, you know, like a meme that's, you know, viral on TikTok that a patient would be, would probably have seen that meme. Like, you know, you look at the patient, you're like, okay, younger, patient, probably on TikTok, probably seen this meme. If I somehow mention it, well, walls just come down, right?

Preston: Mm-hmm. You're, a person. You know, I, see you in a way I couldn't before. Yeah. I had a patient the other day ask me if I could put an order in the hospital, and I was like, oh, yeah, I got you. And they replied, they go like this. They're like, yeah, that's my doctor. And the nurses were like, what is she doing towards you?

And I was like, oh, it's tea. You know? She's happy putting the order in. Like there's nothing else to it, you know? whereas like a lot of people, it kinda goes right over their head and even I think just like slang in of itself, like that's, [00:14:00] I'm bringing the term linguistics, but it's a great way to signal to someone that you're within the same cultural group or class.

Amine: Yeah. 

Preston: and I guess if, we can use some of your clips at some point, I, 'cause they're actually not on your page. I think you took most of them down, right? 

Amine: Yeah. Yeah. At the, unfortunately. 

Preston: But yeah, it sounds like you had a lot of. Positive are altruistic reasons we're doing this. In a way, it kind of unites your experience in music where, what sounds like music was your thread through these different cultures, and then you're combining that with healthcare.

Like you, you have knowledge of these communities that other, you know, traditional people in healthcare don't have. So it got a lot of really positive responses. But it sounds like you got some negative responses too. What, happened there? 

Amine: Well, yeah, I mean, my school, you know, my school notified me that they'd received complaints.

From who? I'm not sure whether those were local or, you know, not local. there wasn't much detail around, [00:15:00] you know, the complaints, just that it was insensitive to stereotypes, to which at the end of the day, comedy you can't, please everyone. Right? And you also, sometimes jokes can be at the expense.

Of something or someone. and that's something obviously we never want. That's something that's def definitely wasn't my goal at all. Right. but unfortunately something being at the expense of someone else isn't okay. And it, it comes to the point where it's kind of like the image, whether it's my image or the image of the school, right.

And if, things got back to the school, I can't risk their image. You know, I can risk my image as much as I want. that's my image to risk. And if, you know, I lose opportunities because of that, you know, that's on me. But it's, you know, it's the same thing that I've spoke, kind of spoke about before with others where it's like, okay, there's a world where I get into a residency interview and they're like, oh, I've seen this guy on TikTok.

Hell no. [00:16:00] You know, you know what I mean? No. There's a world where I get into a residency interview and they're like, whoa, I've seen your videos. You're hilarious. And I don't even, you know, then I have an unfair advantage against everyone around me because I'm already known. Then the interview's already cool.

We're talking, we're joking around. So it's, you know, it's kind of a give and take. but as far as if, you know, if certain people. Really feel, you know, like I'm coming at them with my content. That's something I never want to do. And if, that's the case, then I just have to pivot and do something else that's more inclusive.

Preston: I thought your content was funny. And also I can see where the complaints are coming from, even if I don't necessarily agree with them. I wonder if there's a way to rewrite that skit that maintains its humor without stepping on toes. And, I don't even know if that's possible. I think sometimes the more.

I don't know, I guess blunt you are in comedy, like the better the message is delivered, but sometimes like it, it's gonna [00:17:00] ultimately lead to someone being offended. 

Amine: Yeah. 

Preston: even in my comedy, so, or on my fourth year when I started posting, I kind of ran into a similar thing. I started out just kind of whatever I, felt like talking about.

I was just letting loose and, I've definitely watered it down and maybe even subconsciously in a hope of like, not even pleasing the audience, but avoiding conflict. It sounds like this is kind of what happened here. you were, sounds like surprised that some people took it as offensive, which wasn't your intent.

And then, in hopes of avoiding conflict from, you know, people complaining to the school and also like representing your school, you ultimately have like corrected course. I know you're still posting, but I guess to engage this hypothetical, like how would you carve something like this going forward to.

To both accomplish that goal and maybe not step on toes. 

Amine: It's hard. It's hard because I'm a very, well, first of all, controversy draws attention. [00:18:00] So you want a video to go up, you know, to make something controversial, first of all, second of all, my true, like, my thoughts about my video, I don't like, yes, you could say stereotypes.

Yes you could, you know, you could say it's offensive, but. I don't remember accents, you know, being something that's of a particular race, it's a particular group of people. It's, you know, it's an accent. If you go to Atlanta, that's how people over there talk. If you go to New York, people over there talk a certain way.

If you go to Toronto, people over there talk a certain way. In California, we talk a certain way. Everyone talks a certain way somewhere. You know, if my question was now is if, let's say I made. One, like in the UK and I start talking in a British accent. Is that stereotypical or does everyone in the UK have that accent?

So, to me, like slang I don't think is something that's, that you can attack. But you know, ev everyone has their own feelings on it. those are just how I feel. And I don't, know if you think if you, you think the same way? 

Preston: Yeah. I, guess [00:19:00] it's interesting to me, maybe we're getting too meta about this, but you said that it was negative because it's.

Propagating stereotypes, I guess I like, I don't know if that's bad in and of itself, like, is that a negative thing? Because by satirically enhancing a stereotype, you can draw attention to it, right. whether it's a negative one, and I think some people say, well, you must be like from that group in order to do that, or something.

just so that you have good intention, but also I think like the stereotypes that you are playing into. I think independent of themselves called, into account the differences in culture between, you know, medicine or the people at traditionally go into medicine. The people in, like the groups that they're caring for because like, while a Dr.

May be almost homogenous in how we, like picture them acting in the clinic and we have these like stereotyped ideas of a doctor, right? The, patient is gonna be very different in Atlanta and in Canada, in [00:20:00] California, and in Nevada. And, like that's, I think that's what that series captured is, like, how different the cultures are around there, and also like how you need to like cater to those things.

Like I think you're, I guess what I saw was like someone who was taking, was studying the culture that they were planning to practice in and then using that to be a better doctor who could engage with the population. Those are really positive things to me. Yeah. And, like I, I practiced in North Carolina, or I guess I did med school in North Carolina.

I grew up in Colorado originally. And the things, you know, like I started saying like, well, I'll be, or bless her heart, you know, and. You start, bringing out the stuff like that, like people warm up to you a little bit, you know? Yeah. you start, you talk to 'em about nascar and you're bringing up, you know, the, apple crisp that you're gonna make, and then collard greens and like, you know, people engage with you more.

[music]: Mm-hmm. 

Preston: Like, it's, all just like about like paying attention to the population that you're treating [00:21:00] and, I think that's like why I resonate with those comments that you're like a cultural anthropologist and also. Could acknowledge that, you know, people are, were frustrated with like the amplification or amplifying stereotypes.

Amine: I think one of the, like if you look at it like to the, core of what it is, remember growing up what, like, one of the strongest things in making friends was what? Commonalities. If you had commonalities with someone, you skipped, you know, the barriers to making friends tenfold. If you like soccer and your, boy like soccer.

You guys are automatically friends. So I think that's it. That's that same concept kind of coming again. Right? Whether it's an accident, like you said, talking about NASCAR or you know, just speaking in the same way. 

Preston: Mm-hmm. 

Amine: I feel like it definitely, definitely does something. 

Preston: And even like me practicing as a psychiatrist or I guess, I PGY three in psychiatry.

We, we had, Mark Mullen here on the podcast earlier, and he said like, depending on the population, you know, sometimes. If they, it's almost like breaking the seal. Like if the patient [00:22:00] SSEs first, then I'll cuss next. 

[music]: Mm-hmm. 

Preston: It's like there can be something very validating to being in a room with the patient.

I'm like, this is fucking stupid. And you're like, it fucking is. Even that, like, it's enough to, it, it cuts the air, it breaks this, plexiglass of professionalism lets them be more open with you. So I've thought about finding a name for it. I guess the cussing specifically, almost like it's like.

Professionally directed unprofessionalism, you know, like intentional unprofessionalism because 

Margaret: mm-hmm. 

Preston: Like while profanity may be unprofessional in and of itself, considered as such, building a strong rapport with the patient, I would argue is a very professional thing to do and therapeutic. So it's, I don't know, it's an interesting concept.

Where do you find yourself going forward with social media? Do you continue seeing this as a place to just express yourself? Do you have plans for weaving this into your career? What was your response to this and how to direct it? 

Amine: Before I jump into that, just to [00:23:00] answer your question before is how do I circumvent right with social media?

Honest to God, I'm not too sure. I just, the way I make videos is dumb ideas come into my head and then I'll go film it real quick and then I like kind of think, okay, is this crazy? Yes or no? But, so probably I would think about it more, probably I would, you know, kind of reach out to some close friends before I upload videos and just be like, Hey, what do you guys think?

Like, can this be taken any way at all? And in terms of what I see myself doing with social media, I'd like to continue posting, I'd like to continue making healthcare related content. you know, people have told me like, oh, why don't you upload, you know, day in the life videos or, something, something else like med students do.

But I was like. Yeah. Other people do that. That's the problem. Right. I was like, the videos I make is my niche. Right? There's not too many, you know, medicine influencers that come here and kind of bring a funny side to medicine or bring, you know, something that's a little more outside the box than [00:24:00] how I studied for step one day in the life of a med student.

You know, like how to get research, like, like, come on bro. Like it's getting boring at this point. Like, let's get, let's spice it up a little bit, right? That's, mm-hmm. That's kind of what I wanna do. I want to bring joy to medicine. There's so many people that don't understand that. Like they think hospitals are so serious.

You go inside, you go into a hospital, all the faculty in there, or not the faculty, just the employees in there. Whether it's physicians, nurses, pharmacists, everyone's joking around, everyone. It's, you know, it's very lighthearted, you know, when it, can be right, obviously. but yeah, I just want to kind of bring that and kind of show it to the people.

Not everyone in healthcare is so serious. You don't have to be like, get ready for a super serious conversation every time you go to see a physician. Like it can be, you know, it can be lighthearted, it can be, a good experience. I remember growing up, every time I saw a doctor, I would be excited, depending, like, because my practice or my primary care physician was such a funny guy.

Such a nice guy, right? Moved to [00:25:00] California, I got a new person. They weren't as much. I didn't like coming to the doctors as much, but growing up I liked coming to the doctors. 

Preston: So you moved and the new guy was bombing? he didn't have a tight five. 

Amine: Yeah, pretty much. 

Preston: And I mean, medicine is a performance in a lot of ways.

Maybe not necessarily around your colleagues. I mean, everything's a performance, you know, that asterisk aside. But you play a character when you get into the room and you're engaging with the patient. And you have to control your affect. Adjust what emotions you want to express and find a way to relate to them.

So like tho those are the things that you, hope to cast a light on. I, find it funny too, like you mentioned the day in the life high sight for step one. Here are the top five things that got me through, like my deck. it's almost like. Social media had this kind of taboo side of it and then some, a few trailblazers [00:26:00] did it in a very safe way, and that became the safe thing to do.

So now it's like if I'm like a very vanilla, well-respected, I don't do anything outside the, don't call outside the line social media influencer, then it can be a positive part of my career. Like people don't necessarily look down on it just for its own sake, but it just kind of becomes like another layer on top of things.

what do you wish med talk looked like 

Amine: because of the nature of medicine? I feel like it's very hierarchal, right? It's very like, it matters what the people above you think and it matters. It's just, it's kind of constricting. I feel like even if certain students, maybe some of those day in the life talkers, maybe they are, they're really funny.

Maybe they are really funny and maybe they wish they could post that content, but they're too scared to kind of step out of those boundaries and, you know, kind of test the waters a little bit. Yeah, I wish there was a little less judgment, judgmental, jumping to conclusions, you know, [00:27:00] cancellation, if you wanna call it, whatever the case may be.

Preston: Yeah. It can make you feel powerless. 

Amine: Yeah. 

Preston: And as I think that's a perfect 

Amine: word, 

Preston: when the other shoe drops, you have no second chance. 

Amine: Mm-hmm. 

Preston: That's one thing I wish too, is that when people get something wrong, as a crowd. We're kind of like the French Revolution. We're like, take him to the guillotine. 

[music]: Yeah.

Preston: He finally fucked up. Like his head's coming off and like, people make mistakes, people have bad takes. And I'm not saying, you know, like excuse everything. Like some things are unforgivable, but ultimately, like if our goal is to try to like correct people and like make us all better as a group, like I think just like more forgiveness and grace would be so nice.

Amine: Yeah. I, but. I think, that's the nature of content or fame or being in the spotlight, because you're almost sometimes, in some cases, right, like [00:28:00] not, viewed as human, right? You're like almost just viewed as a thing. Like, oh, this guy, like he makes videos, right? But people forget like, oh, this is a real human being.

He plays Call of Duty. You know, he goes to the gym, he, does normal things. He can mess up just like you can. Because, you know, everyone knows this person and they're successful and what, whatever the case may be like, and also mob mentality, that's a big one. Because if you see two people, three people doing it, five people doing it, seven, 11, then it just gets exponential after that, everyone does it.

So if one person starts hating and that video gets, or that picture gets some comments. Everyone will start jumping on, you know, the train. 

Preston: God forbid that someone was funny when they were hitting on it too, then, it's gonna spiral. I feel bad. I think that was me for Nickelback. Like I, I think I joined the bandwagon hate for Nickelback in my teens.

And then you start hearing [00:29:00] some of their songs again and you're like, you didn't deserve this, man. I'm sorry. You know, like photograph is a great song. Well. I appreciate you coming on here and talking to us about your stuff. I look forward to seeing how your career progresses. I think you're a funny dude.

I think that you have a really unique talent in comedy that not a lot of people have, and, you don't need me to say that. The, cool thing, I mean, we've talked about some of the negative parts of TikTok, but the cool thing about it is that if you make something that's golden, it'll rise to the top.

Amine: Yeah. 

Preston: And like it's gonna get its flowers eventually. that's what makes TikTok effective. So like, I really hope to keep seeing what you make. And I'm excited to see, I know you call 'em dumb ideas, but I think they're just ideas. They're gonna find their way to the phone. And if you ever want someone to pre-approve something, Margaret and I, we send each other videos.

We're happy to screen 'em. We'll send you some of our dumb ideas too. Well, I can't speak for Margaret, but I have plenty of dumb ideas coming through the [00:30:00] pipeline. as we, I guess kind of close, is there, I guess anything else that you wanna say, for like how life and medicine has been, how the, I guess the response has been from your friends at your school, because I imagine they probably think it's kind of fun.

Amine: Oh yeah. I mean, everyone around me has loves it. As far as the videos, and of course they make fun of me. They're like, oh, this guy's on cloud nine. He's let it all get to his head because I troll them too. You know what I'm saying? Like with the video going up now I'm like, ah, don't talk to me anymore.

I'm not studying with you guys anymore. You know, dumb things like that. But see, that was the thing too, is I didn't get any negative backlash, whether it was through the comments, through 8,000 comments on that video, did I get one person, you know, trying to cancel me, especially in 2026. We just talked about that mom mentality where if you do something cancelable, people will rush to cancel you.

Like, you know, or even in person, no one's, you know, came up to me and [00:31:00] been like, oh, it was offensive or anything. So it was a surprise to me, honestly, when, I was met with, you know, the request to take the video down. as far as life in medicine, first year, it's been, it's kind of crazy. I feel like I'm a machine.

Like, I've, like, I like, this is the first time I moved out, right? So I'm living alone. So not only am I handling med school, but I'm doing like chores and stuff. Not that I didn't do chores at home, but like, I gotta, do my own laundry every time. Now I gotta get the dishes every time. I gotta make sure I eat every night.

You know? Like just before I got on this pod, I was like 10 minutes before the pod started. I was like, I can go do some dishes right now. Hold on, let me lock in real quick. You know? So just super, I think, the, word of M1 for me is efficiency. 

Preston: An executive function. 

Amine: Yeah. Literally.

And, that's what I preach in my studies is the first thing I did the first month of med school was like, okay, how can I get as [00:32:00] efficient as I can? I don't care about learning the content. I don't care what's the best way I can learn this content. And I did that every block until now I'm so efficient.

Like I could. Med school isn't like crazy hard. It's like, okay, I gotta get this done, and I know I can get off by now and hang out and do whatever. 

Preston: And, there's your video. Most five most efficient things that, I mean, did to get this content in my brain. 

Amine: Yep. But see, then I turn it into those guys.

I'm sure that video would do well. 

Preston: And, then you'd be, a real robot right. At that point. that's how you become the machine. 

Amine: Yeah. Literally, yeah. But as far as anything else I wanna mention, if any anesthesia or residents are watching this video and want to help me out, you know, with research and whatnot, help me out.

I'm a do, I'm trying to lock in, you know? 

Preston: Right. That's so funny. Yeah. Be plugging, a mean he's in Nevada, so if you're anesthesia and you're trying to hook him up, that's funny. [00:33:00] So my best friend from med school, Daniel, he's an anesthesia resident. So I'll hit him with your line. I don't know, I don't even know what slang I'm trying to use here, but Yeah, I'll let you know.

He was, the guy that recorded all my POV videos when I was doing stuff in med school, so I got you and, you're like, 

Amine: no, that would be amazing. 

Preston: Now that you're in the like medicine, social media, family circle, like you'll see how small it is and how many people have your back. Is now you're on this podcast.

It's, produced by Dr. Glaucomflecken. You're in our whole ecosystem now. So if you need anything, like there are very few people who know what it's like to both like, deal with the backlash of a viral video and then, the positive and positives and negatives of it, and also like negative feedback and then dealing with this, like the frustration of complaints.

You, you won't find someone, or it'd be very hard to find someone who doesn't have a story like yours. 

Amine: Yeah. [00:34:00] Yeah. 

Preston: So, I, wanna offer to not let it discourage you and keep fighting the good fight. Do what you think is funny and the crowd will tell you the rest. 

Amine: Well, f first of all, shout out to Dr.

Glock Flecking. That was pro, probably one of the first medicine type tiktoks I've seen. Funny guy, I watch all his videos. Amazing. I didn't, I actually didn't know that. secondly, when problems do arise, like this one, it's definitely, it's like another added. Stress on top of me doing my schoolwork. Like I was in, you know, the last week of the block we just did repro, which I hated by the way.

but it was last week of the block. I'm, now, I'm having meetings with the school and things are up in the air and I still have to do well on the test. Like, that's something that like, I feel like not everyone even experiences that, you know? so I'm glad you mentioned that. it's cool. I definitely didn't know, You know, most of the community did go through the same things. I'm sure I should have assumed, but going through it the first time is definitely, it's definitely new. 

Preston: You [00:35:00] never know. it's like it's nothing that you can picture being retold. You have to experience it yourself in a way. But I'm glad you're here, man.

Amine: Glad to be 

Preston: here. So, for, all the audience here, thanks again for listening. This is kind of like a special episode for us, just 'cause we're, flying solo today, but we, got our amino acids on board, or am mean over here. Yeah. 

Amine: Yes, sir. 

Preston: thanks to everyone who's been leaving the great feedback, Jake Lut said, thank you guys for such a great podcast.

You both are so down to earth and make psychiatry interesting to learn about. I also love how you guys are so open about discussing deeper topics. That's from our last one, where we'll be do more existential discussion, but honestly, I mean, you're down to earth too, even though they were referring to, me and Margaret.

So if you're listening again, let us know how that show is. Let us know what you think. If you want us to talk to more, like people who are experiencing social media and medicine together. I think these are unique and fun conversations, so we're happy to bring more [00:36:00] people on board. If you wanna hear more from Amin and his journey in anesthesia.

In music, we can bring him back to make him make some music for us. Contact the team directly at How to be patient po.com. You can see more from me and pre, me and Margaret, either on my YouTube at it's prerow or Margaret at Bad Art every day. You can also find full episodes on Spotify and YouTube at How to Be Patient and it's Prera on YouTube.

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They probably exist for real. But in the meantime, I'm just gonna pet lilac and then I'm gonna go dance in the [00:38:00] background.