Go from burnt out to FIREd up.
After catching my recent interview on the White Coat Investor podcast (thanks for the opportunity, Jim!), a like-minded reader wrote in asking if I had suggestions on how he might reduce or eliminate call responsibilities. Except for a year of failed experimentation in ER surge call (don’t ask), I never take call working in emergency medicine, so I’m a definite …
Few 30 year olds are able to accurately predict what they’d like to eat for dinner, much less how their future selves will feel in a career 1-2 decades out from completion of training, which is why this next interviewee rocked my world. She and her husband trained in Family Medicine and began a job-sharing arrangement from day one. They …
Today I’ll depart from my usual post and instead ask you to download the What’s Up Next podcast, hosted by Doc G and Paul David Thompson. Episode #17 tackles the very pertinent question of whether physicians should pursue Financial Independence (FI), and explores the implications of their doing so, such as: Do physicians violate an unwritten social contract if they opt …
Dr. McFrugal is an anesthesiologist and fellow physician finance blogger who has distinguished himself as my favorite purveyor of food porn – I’ve never seen a photo of one of his plant-based meals I didn’t immediately want to put a fork in. He espouses minimalism, frugality, and the selective pursuit of luxury that provides his family pleasure out of proportion. …
I’m a sucker for witty personal finance quotes as much as the next person. When we take a family excursion to the library, my magnetic north draws me immediately to the finance section (okay, sometimes it attracts me to the travel section as well). I relish the Rudyard Kipling poem “If” as deployed to devastating effect when excerpted by William …
BT is an emergency physician residing in the south. He’s married to an internist and a father to three daughters (the oldest just started university). His career saw him working at a community hospital, which he left to become an academic faculty member and researcher, which he left to return to community practice once again. He picked up and grew …
What’s an avatar? Before FinCon18, I assumed Avatar meant the James Cameron movie with a presumably thin plot padded by special effects (I’ve never seen it, so feel free to correct me). Now, I understand an avatar represents the theoretical person I’m trying to reach via this blog. This led to some natural soul-searching. I’d always thought I was writing …
I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Cory Fawcett, a “repurposed” general surgeon, at FinCon18. Since leaving medicine, Cory has authored several books and started a business, Prescription For Financial Success, geared toward helping physicians live sustainable lifestyles free from debt. He is credited by many, including my friend B.C. Krygowski, as having been a key figure in helping them …
Resolutions get an understandably bad rap at this time of year. Many people make empty commitments to implement change that are discarded almost as quickly as they are publicly announced. Go beneath the surface to understand the origins of the word and you might find a concept directly applicable to burnout in medicine. Etymology is the study of the origin …
GXA is a 43-year-old emergency physician in the midwest who has been front-loading his work life by consistently working greater than full-time since he graduated residency 15 years ago. I reached out via a comment he’d left on an article at Physician On FIRE, and he generously agreed to share his story. He is married, a father of two middle …