Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Part-Time Medicine & Career Change”
Mass media is a fickle entity. One minute medicine is approaching peak burnout and physicians are in crisis. The next we’ve never had it so good. The New York Times recently published the provocatively entitled article, “How Medicine Became the Stealth Family-Friendly Profession.” My first thought was that a journalist had decided to go rogue by rebuffing the conventional wisdom, …
In our second installment, we explored variables within Dr. PBO’s control that might reduce the unpleasant aspects of his job. Assuming he has adjusted those within his control, let’s talk about he might go about becoming (apologies to Seinfeld fans) a master outside his domain. Dr. PBO’s scenario already has one great advantage: he is a business owner, an increasingly …
In our first installment, we determined that Dr. PBO’s journey to Financial Independence (FI) needs to begin with an assessment of his starting point, his destination, and consideration of the vehicles he intends to use to arrive at FI. Variables Largely Within Your Control It can be surprising to realize that despite feeling stuck, many of the variables to improve …
If you read through my list of physician finance bloggers, you’ll note that shift-based specialists like anesthesiologists, radiologists and emergency physicians are over-represented. Where are the primary care physicians? They do not blog in proportion to the half of the physician work force they comprise, leaving a vacuum of first person testimony as to how such clinicians might cut back …
Doc G in an internist best known for his prodigious writing via his blog, DiverseFI, as well as being one half of the dynamic duo behind the What’s Up Next? podcast. We met at Fin Con 18, and I was not the only person struck by his gift with words. The details of how Doc G build his home-based concierge …
I Recently Overheard Someone At A Table Near Mine Order Something That Wasn’t On The Menu Docs who cut back demonstrate an aptitude for envisioning possibility where others cannot. They sacrifice income to gain time to pursue balance. They create and sustain unconventional arrangements with employers and colleagues, and find ways to package these arrangements fairly so all affected parties …
Dr. Academic To Community (ATC) is an emergency physician who was on an express track to an academic career when she and her husband started a family. Her goals evolved and she recalibrated her life accordingly. My fascinating interview with Dr. ATC proceeded in a non-linear fashion. A central theme was the struggle to balance career aspirations and intellectual passion …
The physician who blogs at ByWellDesign is an example of a specialist who cut back despite having a strong procedure-based component to her work. She was a decade into a typical nose-to-grindstone medical career until a cancer diagnosis forced her to reconsider her path. With wonderful clarity, her writing conveys how a cancer diagnosis immediately undermines assumptions about the future; …
Dr. Errin Weisman is a family medicine physician married to a farmer in rural Indiana, and a mother of three. She reached out to me via a friend in the close-knit community of physician bloggers. Errin’s experience with burnout in clinical medicine led her to a dark place where her “soul felt broken.” Working with a life coach, she dug …
[Disclosure: I have an affiliate relationship with Cory. If you use this link to purchase his course, I make a commission.] Cory Fawcett, a “repurposed” general surgeon, is no stranger to this blog. I’ve reviewed his book on career alternatives for doctors, and he’s been interviewed as part of the Docs Who Cut Back series. I met Cory at FinCon …