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Eric Levi
Personal blog · ericlevi.comhealthcareer
Eric Levi's personal blog at ericlevi.com covers health and career. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Dark Side of Doctoring”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Eric Levi's blog, written by an Australian ENT surgeon, for essays on doctors' work-life balance and hiring, including the career realities of medicine.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dr Eric Levi is a triple-Fellowship trained Specialist Otolaryngologist (Ear Nose & Throat), Head & Neck Surgeon in Melbourne, Australia.
Most-linked posts?
- The Dark Side of Doctoring2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-15
What Hacker News says?
Thank you for the eye opening insight, my significant other was accepted to med school in the states and she/we are double minded on her pursuing the field of medicine due to the dismal work life balance you mentioned, considering she has a science masters and works a 9-5 in medical research. She didn't have the undergraduate grades and did masters + high MCAT score to finally get in at 30 years old. Given the curre…
Comment linking /2017/05/13/the-dark-side-of-doctoring/
on “Hire people who aren’t proven”- dy · 2017-05-15
Submitted The Dark Side of Doctoring as a story · 347 points
HN discussion Huh, you're right! This is by an Australian doctor: https://ericlevi.com/ - "Paediatric & Adult Specialist Otolaryngologist, Ear Nose & Throat, Head & Neck Surgeon" in Melbourne.
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on “The darker side of being a doctor”Submitted Restoring Hope and Humanity to Health Care (follow Up to “Dark Side of Doctoring”) as a story · 1 points
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