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I wrote the following post a year and a half ago while brainstorming my next steps. Part 1 is what I thought would happen. Part 2, the companion post, will describe what actually occurred. It’s been a mere 15 years since graduating residency, and by all accounts I should be in the prime of my career. An auspicious new gray …
Precious few times in a life – so few you can recount them with great specificity – you manage to catch every green light. Maybe you’ve been paying attention to traffic trends, counting the lapse in time between lights, noting the details that primed you to alter your speed just so, in a manner where – if you ever caught …
I’ve accepted a position outside of clinical medicine. It represents an opportunity to continue to support the community health system I’ve been a part of to continue to ensure it’s viability for the future, at the hospital where both my kids were born. A little like going from player to coach while supporting the same team enterprise. Making this decision …
I’ve spent a great deal of time thinking about what my encore career might look like. Some of that thinking has to do with how to go about deciding on that first action. Do you dip a toe in the water to an interesting idea? Do you commit fully and completely to your best option? How much is the right …
During a long family car ride, we collectively listened to an excellent interview with the Swiss-German, three Michelin star chef and owner of Eleven Madison Park, Daniel Humm. He is not the typical role model one might hold up as an example for children. He dropped out of high school at age 14 to cycle competitively. He was living with …
You are in your late 20s, at a cocktail party, and strike up a conversation with a friendly and socially lubricated stranger while standing in line for a drink. Five minutes into the conversation, the stranger asks you what you do. How do you reply? It’s a probing question, and it can mean a ton of different things. Is this …
An Unexpected Pivot My father spent most of his career in sales and marketing, which is why he it surprised us all when he opted to pursue an encore career as a substitute teacher for junior high and high school students. In retrospect, it made perfect sense, what with his primary qualification being that he is an eleven year boy …
Doc 2 Disco is a refreshing new voice in the physician finance blogosphere, urging her readers to “tackle the burn through personal finance and hustle.” A highly-trained, dual-boarded specialist within a niche area of medicine, on the surface she might seem the unlikeliest of candidates to walk away from her career. Like many of us, an accumulation of ever-increasing aggravations …
Dr. Y is a rare and exotic species among Docs Who Cut Back: a surgical subspecialist who completed a decade-long course of training in a highly competitive field. More unusual still, she opted to cut back 4 years after working full-time as a subspecialist attending (to be fair, she worked one additional year as a general surgeon prior to entering …
I enjoyed many guilty pleasures in my TV gorging teen years, but none were so satisfying as tuning into a “Where are they now?” program. Whether it was one hit wonders on VH1 or my favorite child actors from Punky Brewster, Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life, I could not get enough of this silliness. There was the male …