Doctor, What Makes You Remarkable?
While we have never met, I know something about you with absolute certainty. You are remarkable. You have a unique way of improving patients’ condition based on your unique gifts and passions and life experiences. Why is being remarkable important? The quickest way to grow...
Depressed doctor: “I’m angry and frustrated and lost.”
This is an email subject line from a doctor. Letter published with permission. Hello Pamela I have become so disillusioned with medicine. I do not know who to talk to any more or what to do with my life. I work one week a month in the ICU. I spend the other three weeks of the...
How to be a happy doctor
It was a physician employee, many times for many hospitals and clinics. I’d stay a year or two, but eventually I’d quit. Then, in 2005, I opened an ideal clinic designed by my patients. Ten years later, I still love private practice. Why? I’m finally practicing medicine the way...
Physician Happiness and Satisfaction Study
Physician Happiness Study and what you can do with it Last week the 2015 Great American Physician Survey, sponsored by Kareo, revealed a new statistic on physician happiness. In this study they interviewed 1001 physicians where the majority was male (58.7%) and employed by a...
Financial Secrets for Young Physicians: Funding the Future
You’re in bed, tossing and turning. You can’t sleep. You feel like you are in a financial prison, constrained by the shackles of debt and trying to still have fun and enjoy life. You’re wondering, how the heck am I going to break out of this joint and have financial freedom? In...
Secrets to Financial Success for Young Physicians
According to the American Medical School Association, 86% of medical school graduates carry educational debt and the median debt burden is $155,000 for public school graduates and nearly $185,000 for private school graduates. How can a young physician balance the financial...
Avoid Negotiating Landmines
After 10 grueling years of training to become a physician, you can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. You may be receiving countless emails that advertise amazing starting salaries, sign on bonuses, and/or loan repayments that almost seem too good to be true....
Physician Burnout Is Physician Abuse
Physician burnout is the latest trend among doctors. There are books, workshops, even special breathing exercises for physician burnout. Suddenly every other doctor I meet has burnout. And half of all med students have burnout before they graduate. WTF. We enter medicine as...
Best Practices for Physicians to Evaluate Compensation Offers
Compensation is a major factor in determining whether or not to accept a particular job offer. When evaluating various job opportunities, different compensation models and rates of compensation may be presented. Understanding the basis of how organizations determine...
Why Consider A Non-Clinical Career?
There are many great reasons to choose a non-clinical career. They often provide an opportunity to apply some of the skills that may not be as well utilized in a clinical setting or to expand your horizons and gain new skills and experiences. You can serve in a visible...
