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Dr. Jeff | An ER Doctor’s search for balance and meaning

Author(s): Jeff Yoo, MD | Emergency Physician and Trevor Vaughan
Video Release Date: May 13, 2026
Video Source: YouTube

In the high-stakes world of emergency medicine, Dr. Jeff Yoo spends his days caring for critically ill and injured patients in one of Canada’s busiest emergency departments. But outside the hospital, he searches for balance, meaning, and identity through climbing. Dr. Jeff is a documentary that follows an ER doctor in Vancouver, BC as he navigates the pressures of medicine, family life, and fatherhood, while pushing his personal limits across three disciplines of climbing: bouldering, sport climbing, and traditional multipitch climbing. From long overnight shifts in the emergency room to dangerous exposure high above the ground, the film explores the parallels between medicine and climbing: risk, fear, responsibility, obsession, and the pursuit of purpose. This is a story about passion, burnout, resilience, and trying to build a meaningful life while balancing career, family, and the things that make us feel alive.

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