Over the past month, I’ve been living in Los Angeles, an inarguably expensive US city. I’ve managed to live here without a car though I hitch a ride with my girlfriend from time to time and piece the rest together by bus and ride-sharing apps. I’ve managed to live here comfortably working only 2 days […]
Category: Medical Career
I love the practice of medicine but medicine as a career is a disaster. I’ve been through all of it from fraud to medical board investigations to scrupulous bosses. I’ll discuss how to navigate our careers as medical professionals in this category.
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My Website, My Resume
Medicine – man, what a career. It’s a chaotic, lucrative, and rewarding mess which I’ve been involved in ever since 1996 when I decided to pursue it in undergrad. Medicine doesn’t care too much about my resume and so having a website to highlight my work is unnecessary. But my website is my resume when […]
I’m back in the clinic seeing patients in the urgent care. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen patients face to face; April 2020 – that’s 18 months ago. Even then, it was in a primary care clinic. So let’s talk about finding an urgent care job and how it’s been going. I wasn’t […]
Patient empowerment is putting the patient back in the driver’s seat. It’s making you their medical expert but helping them feel like they are in control. It’s what a lot of psychotherapy is designed to do. And yet in western medicine, our patient-doctor relationship often creates a power dynamic that achieves the exact opposite. Empowering […]
You know that feeling of being stuck in a relationship? You aren’t ready to leave the relationship but if something happened and it ended you’d feel so relieved. That’s been my feeling towards my medical career – feeling stuck in medicine and not knowing what to do about it. I write a lot about medicine […]
