It’s been almost two years since returned to medicine after a three-year hiatus from practice. I recently finished the longest week of work I have had since starting this job. I had a family emergency and a conference all converge around the same week, and ended up cramming two makeup days into an already full schedule. It was long. It was incredibly tiring. I was very glad when I finally …
The key to physician job satisfaction: Being valued
Over the past few years, I have realized that I have come to resent the word “just.” Certainly not in the civil sense of the word: social justice is the driving force behind virtually all the work I do these days. I am talking about using “just” as a qualifier. As in, “Oh, I’m just the medical student,” or, “He’s just a nurse.” We use it blatantly as an offense …
Just: A word that I’ve resented since leaving clinical medicine
There are an awful lot of reasons that led up to my eventual resignation from a career in primary care medicine. I don’t know that any one of them is more important than the other (it really just depends on which day you ask me). One that stands out for me though as a universal problem shared by millions is Managed Health Care, and the imposition it has posed on …
Why this pediatrician quit medicine
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