Gary Brecka

A college student that says they want to...

be a psychiatrist and help people with schizophrenia, or a nurse's aide who works in a nursing home.

It's a different group of people that have this incredible sense of compassion, and that's what unites all of us.

If I meet a doctor in another country or a nurse at the train station, there's this incredible bond that we all have, that we have chosen a career at a sense of compassion.

But what we do is we take these bright, creative, altruistic young people, and we beat them down for years and years.

We give them this rote memorization and regurgitation curricula.

And they come out as robotic.

And they burn out.

We burn them out.

And then, of course, they're a little entitled.

And you fast forward.

And you go through this residency, medical school, memorized regurgitation thing, and they're different people.

I mean, the medical school essays I would read of the pre-med students that applied to Johns Hopkins Medical School when I was there.

90% of them wanted to do missions, if not full-time, part of their practice.

They wanted to do charity work locally or overseas.

I mean, these are incredibly bright, creative, altruistic people.

And then they come out reciting a catechism over and over again because it's a self-preservation survival mode.

It's not their fault.

It's just like it's not the fault of six-year-olds that they're obese.

This is something adults have done to children, right?