About Doctor Ethan
Doctor Ethan’s journey on social media began in 2016 when he first attended medical school. At the time, sharing of creative content was rare in healthcare and Ethan wanted to give an insight into a busy and exciting medical career. This was through providing fun yet educational content and exactly the type of information that Ethan wished was available to him when he was applying to medical school.
During Ethan’s time at medical school, it’s fair to say that life was not straightforward. Ethan battled chronic illness while studying arguably the most rigorous degree possible but this battle only strengthened his desire to help others. He would use his own medical experiences to improve his relatability to the patients he was caring for on the wards.
This became hugely successful and through the documenting of his medical school journey, Ethan amassed 50+ million views. He became the most followed medical student in the world and a leading figure in health education.
When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in late 2019, false information became prevalent across social media and the internet.
- At the age of 13, Ethan knew he wanted to become a Doctor due to his love of science and his own experiences of seeing close relatives pass away from terminal illness. Five years later, having achieved 15A* across his GCSES and A-Levels and completed a gruelling set of interviews and admissions exams, he packed his bags ready for medical school. Ethan attended Nottingham University in the U.K to learn from some of the most highly respected clinicians and academics in the region and in 2021 he graduated as a medical doctor.
- Doctor Ethan’s journey on social media began in 2016 when he first attended medical school. At the time, sharing of creative content was rare in healthcare and Ethan wanted to give an insight into a busy and exciting medical career. This was through providing fun yet educational content and exactly the type of information that Ethan wished was available to him when he was applying to medical school. This became hugely successful and through the documenting of his medical school journey, Ethan amassed 50+ million views. He became the most followed medical student in the world and a leading figure in health education.
- During Ethan’s time at medical school, it’s fair to say that life was not straightforward. Ethan battled chronic illness while studying arguably the most rigorous degree possible but this battle only strengthened his desire to help others. He would use his own medical experiences to improve his relatability to the patients he was caring for on the wards.
- When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in late 2019, false information became prevalent across social media and the internet. Extremely dissatisfied by this, Ethan used the new and rapidly growing social media platform, TikTok, to combat this misinformation. Ethan provided engaging and interactive, short-form content to people across the world. Complex medical topics were made simple and hundreds of myths were dispelled across healthcare. This ranged from COVID Vaccines, body processes including sneezing and hiccups as well as rare medical conditions and fascinating body facts. This grew into a worldwide phenomenon and to date Ethan has over 3 million likes on this platform alone. There is a growing need to provide accurate yet exciting medical content and Doctor Ethan is one of the leaders in this field.
- As his platform has grown, Doctor Ethan has appeared in many publications and took part in major radio appearances to spread his primary message: ‘That medicine should be fun, exciting and interactive and not something we should be afraid of.’ Unfortunately, Ethan has experienced like so many of us, the loss of close family members and he wants to be able to use medicine as a power for good rather than solely as a process of loss.
- Fast forward to today, Doctor Ethan has become a global education platform and one of the leading medical creators of his era. All at the age of only 23!
