EP 59: Would You Do This? Leaving Medicine, Cosmetic Work on Yourself, Career Regrets — Part 2

Skinfluence with Dr. Dustin Portela · Oct 15, 2026 · 27m

There is a version of medicine where the answers are clean and the path makes sense. Then there is the version Dr. Dustin Portela and Austin Lee actually live, where the most honest conversations happen not with patients, but with themselves.

Part 2 of the "Would You Do This?" series trades last week's clinical hypotheticals for something rawer: what these two providers genuinely think about the career they chose, and whether they would do it again. Would they leave medicine tomorrow if they didn't need the money? Both said no, but the reasons behind that answer say more about purpose than…