A doctor has hit out at trolls who call her "unprofessional" for going to raves as she refuses to hide her party animal lifestyle any longer.
The critical care doctor, who goes by Doc D, used to be "embarrassed" about her love of EDM but is now proud to share the other side of her life — where she blows off steam by going to wild raves across the US.
The medic, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, insists "not everyone" in the rave scene uses drugs and said tries to rave "more responsibly than others".
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But despite this, the raver has received some backlash from people who think her wild partying clashes with her professional life.
Taking to TikTok, where she goes by the username @drnopantsgirl, she told viewers about some of the criticism she's received.
In one video she started by being stood in a hospital while wearing scrubs and a surgical mask, adding the subtitles: "You can't be a doctor AND go to raves, it's unprofessional!"
The video then switched to a series of clips of her going wild at raves set over Katy Perry's Part of Me.
She captioned the post: "This is my #wellness".
Her raving has seen her sporting some extreme looks, including tiny bikini tops, florescent hairstyles and cut-out bodysuits.
One racy fit even saw her showing off some underboob in a bright psychedelic patterned top as she bared her bum in matching pants and fishnet tights.
Some viewers were ecstatic to see her enjoying life outside work and praised her for showing doctors can have fun personal lives too.
"Being a professional doesn’t mean you have to be boring," one commenter wrote.
Another joked: "Damn. Thank god. Now I can roll balls even harder knowing docs be showing up to these."
A third added: "Truth! We can be doctors and still have lives outside of medicine."
"You just rave more responsibly than others," another viewer pointed out.
Doc D responded: "I try!!"
But some people agreed with the trolls.
One person said: "Personally I wouldn’t want her as a doctor but I’m sure there is some people who are fine with that!!!"
"Would never want a doctor like you," a second viewer wrote.
A third agreed, adding: "Ya I wouldn’t want you as my doctor."
Doc D hit back at the critic, telling them: "Good!"
One person questioned the heavy drug use associated with rave scenes, asking: "Are you seriously going to deny there’s drug use in the EDM scene???"
But the doctor claimed not all ravers are drug users, replying: "I never said that, I am saying it’s wrong to assume EVERYONE in the scene is a drug addict and bad at healthcare if they like EDM."
In another video, the doctor revealed she used to keep her raving a secret because she was "embarrassed" about the bad reputation it gets.
She said: "I've always loved raving even when I was a lot younger and through medical training and I was always really afraid to talk about it.
"I think it originally stemmed from when I was in college where it was kind of embarrassing to say that you like EDM, that's at least what I thought at the time.
"Now the rave scene has morphed into something totally different and for some odd reason it keeps getting associated with horrible things like drug use and badness."
But the Covid-19 pandemic changed her outlook on life and she's finally decided to embrace her love of raving, no matter what other people think.
She explained: "Everything changed for me during the pandemic where I was training in pulmonary and critical care medicine and I realised I was giving 100% of my life to medicine.
"After I graduated I made a lot of changes and I prioritised my health and my love for music and dancing.
"I became a lot more open about my interest with my friends and developed a little rave group and then that interest turned into hobbies and a full passion."
Now she's encouraging other medical professionals to follow in her footsteps.
"No matter what your role is in healthcare it doesn't mean that you need to hide your love for raving and music and if you work in healthcare and you're prioritising the welfare of your patient, that's all that matters," she added.
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