After two decades in medicine, I started questioning everything.
Dr. Ravi Kumar is a board-certified neurosurgeon who left the operating room to explore the questions that matter most about your health.
Listen to the PodcastEvery week, I cut through the noise of health headlines and marketing claims to bring you what the research actually says. No dogma, no agenda, just an honest look at the science that shapes how you live, heal, and thrive.
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How Burnout Almost Ended My Neurosurgery Career, And What Saved It
In this deeply personal episode, neurosurgeon Dr. Ravi Kumar steps out from behind the microscope and tells his own story. On stage with psychologist Dr. Trey Tippens, he traces how 80 to 100 hour weeks in a brutal neurosurgical residency ran his resilience down to empty, how burnout showed up in his body as chronic illness and depression, and how a toxic corporate hospital pushed him to walk away from neurosurgery entirely. Then the radical reset: selling everything, moving his family of six to a stone mission hospital in the Western Ghats of India, operating barefoot with donated tools, and rediscovering the gratitude, purpose, and mission that made him fall back in love with medicine on his own terms.
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About Dr. Kumar
A neurosurgeon who started questioning everything
Dr. Ravi Kumar is a board-certified neurosurgeon and assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of North Carolina. After years in the operating room, a transformative sabbatical in India changed how he saw medicine forever.
Now, through The Dr. Kumar Discovery, he explores the intersection of modern science, traditional wisdom, and the questions most doctors never think to ask.
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★★★★★"Dr Kumar's podcasts have been such a great find! As an OR nurse I have worked with neurosurgeons for years. I found the podcasts to be informative, easy to follow and just the right length."
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