Two Singapore Doctors Navigating Careers & Side Quests – Faith Nadine Choo & Isaac Ong

We Didn't Plan This – The Podcast for People Who Ditched Their Five-Year Plan

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If you've hit every milestone and still wondered “Is this it?” — this podcast is for you. We Didn't Plan This is all about raw, funny, and brutally honest conversations about purpose, identity, and what it actually takes to rewrite the script. This video podcast is hosted by Faith and Isaac — two doctor friends who wanted an excuse to have honest conversations with cool folks who've chosen a less conventional path, picked up an unexpected side quest, or just decided to build a life that actually made sense to them. New episodes fortnightly. Come hang.

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Two Singapore Doctors Navigating Careers & Side Quests – Faith Nadine Choo & Isaac Ong

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From Cadaver Lab to Breaking Bad News: What Medical Training Really Teaches You 04.07.2026 41:19

We started medical school by walking into a room with donated human bodies and a scalpel. And if you ask most doctors about it now, years later, there's this thing that happens — the memory is still vivid, but the weight of it has somehow… shifted. This episode is about that shift. Faith and Isaac talk through what cadaver lab was actually like — the smell, the pledge, the strange intimacy of retu...

Milestone Anxiety, Regrets & Side Quests: Two Doctors Questioning The Singaporean Dream 20.06.2026 41:39

Somewhere between a therapy session and a sparring match, this episode has Faith and Isaac putting each other on the spot with questions they actually want answered. No guest, no agenda — just two doctors who've both strayed pretty far from the expected path, asking each other the hard stuff: Was there a moment you knew the default wasn't for you? What did you have to unlearn to get here? And what...

We Chose Medicine — But Did We Actually Choose? | The Script We Didn't Write 06.06.2026 42:32

Faith and Isaac spend this episode doing something they probably should have done years ago — actually tracing back where their paths came from. Not the polished CV version, but the real one. The one that starts with Faith wanting to be a paleontologist, and Isaac presenting a Minister of Health flip chart at kindergarten, and both of them eventually just rolling into medicine because that's what...

Singaporean Doctors by Day, Side Questers by Night: Did We Let Singapore's Education System Plan Our Lives? 01.05.2026 38:52

Welcome to the first episode of We Didn't Plan This — a podcast for people who ditched their five-year plan. We really didn't plan this. It started with a lunch conversation a few months ago, and somehow became a full-fledged podcast. In our first episode, we (Faith and Isaac) share our backstories. Faith, a locum GP juggling a blog, side quests, and too many creative projects, and Isaac, a house...