Peruzzi, the Nigerian artist and songwriter, recently opened up about his decision to drop out of medical school during his final year, sharing his struggles on the Zero Conditions Podcast.
Peruzzi revealed that the intense psychological toll of studying Medicine and Surgery in Ukraine led him to make the pivotal decision to pursue his passion for music.
Expressing the depth of his exhaustion, he shared, “I got tired for real, for real. I never felt like that in my life. I was done, like everything about me, in my head, I was done with medicine. And that was when I was about to start my final year so it was a lot. I had written my first MD already at the time. It wasn’t about how long I had left at the time, it was about me not wanting to do anything again. I didn’t want to do it anymore,” said Peruzzi.
Peruzzi had been studying at Odesa National University in Ukraine until his fifth year, when the pressures of Medical School compelled him to return to Nigeria.
He confided in his mother about his struggles and desire to return, and she set one condition for his return: “I really got tired, my entire being was tired so I left on the first of January and I didn’t even have my passport, I had lost it. So I went to the embassy and they gave me a travel letter because I needed to leave that urgently. When I got back the only person I told was my mum. I was able to explain how bad I was feeling and she said I should make sure to come back with my school result and everything from the first year to show that I was in school so I did.”
Despite his return, he kept the reason from his father, leading to murmurs within the church community that he had dropped out, given his presence during a non-holiday season. Nevertheless, Peruzzi expressed no regrets about his decision to leave medical school.