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A 2 Day Work Week Seeing Patients

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 […]

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Higher Hourly Wage With Part-Time Medicine

I figure the average doctor will have about 100,000 hours of work in them before they have to stop working. This is assuming a long career in medicine working full-time, straight out of residency. For primary care doctors it’s a potential for $10 million of gross wages (in 2018 dollars) over our lifetime. Or $30 […]

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Working Part-Time Medicine, Forever

There is no reason why you can’t practice medicine part-time. Part-time medicine isn’t advertised widely, but most medical groups and employers will allow for some sort of part-time work. Whether it’s something you can apply for directly or something that you have to strategically engineer is what we’ll discuss here.   Part-time Medicine A colleague […]

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Full-Time, Part-Time, or Per Diem for A Physician?

A healthy economy supplies abundant jobs, high incomes, and sexy investment returns. This is when doctors get comfortable enough in their positions to start looking around and seeing how they can improve their work-life balance. During blooming markets medical groups start expanding. They open more urgent cares, add more staff, build more medical clinics and […]