Jul 29
Pain I just finished a stretch of three months of full-time work due to my partners’ maternity leave. It was a tough transition to be honest, but I adjusted to the busier life within a few weeks. The worst part about it though, was about half way through I tweaked my back which is still …
Jul 21
He Blinded Me With “Fience” Last spring I found myself at Camp Mustache, a multi-day retreat centered on the ideas of the financial independence blogger Mr. Money Mustache, who writes about financial freedom and other related topics. I wrote about my experience there in this post. While I was drinking my coffee early one …
Jun 24
Adventures in full-time work I’ve been doing a part-time job share for almost 4 years now and have quite a few observations about work. If you are new to the blog, I’m a physician; a radiologist to be exact. My backstory is here if you are so inclined and have had enough coffee. …
Mar 30
Renting versus Buying a Home: The Happy Philosopher’s Experience This has been a busy week for guest posts on other blogs. Earlier this week I wrote a post over on 1500days about how to be the happiest person in the room. Today’s blog post is published over at PhysicianonFIRE.com. It’s about the decision process …
Mar 26
Physician suicide and identity I was out of town, working for several days at a remote hospital. It was about an hour after I finished work. The day was typical, busy but manageable. I was in a very good place in my life. I was about 6 months into my part-time experiment, and …
Dec 01
Recently I’ve been stumbling across more and more articles about physician burnout. It is a trendy term to use these days and I think a pretty darn good one. It was first used in the field of psychology in 1974 by Herbert Freudenberger, and the meaning has evolved over time. Social psychologists Christina Maslach and …
Sep 27
Several months ago I stumbled upon a personal finance blog geared towards physicians and financial independence, two topics that are very relevant to my life. A series of posts there detail the financial lives of four fictional doctors and how their various financial decisions result in radical differences in retirement savings and age at which …
Sep 07
My ideas and philosophies did not develop in a vacuum, and the context of my life will likely make my writing more meaningful to you, so here is a cliff-notes version of my story. Note that the human mind is notoriously poor at accurately remembering events so this reality is my reality, but it …
Jul 09
One thing people sometimes underestimate is just how valuable their mental well being is, specifically how this affects their ability to work. Although I’m an advocate for early financial freedom and the ability to retire by 40, there are many who will be most happy working a long and satisfying career. Burning out from …
Mar 16
Today’s post is a little different than my usual material. I published an article on KevinMD about physician suicide. It is more personal and there are some underlying themes that are very important and worth thinking about. I chose to publish it there rather than my blog because it will reach more people, the …
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