As a doctor, you have now firmly ingrained yourself in an honorable profession… with a ton of red tape. Somewhere in the mess that is your life during and after residency you will hear the term “credentialing”. This is the bane of all physicians everywhere, which becomes exponentially harder the more jobs you have, and more places you have been or are currently credentialed at. Now, what exactly is “credentialing”? At its core, it’s a doctor […]
Medicine
PRIORITIES – PART TWO: THE LIST Don’t rent a posh apartment. Rent a reasonable apartment. If it’s just you, you only need a studio or a 1 bedroom in a reasonable and safe area close to the hospital, especially for those of you living in a metropolitan area. If you’re ok with it, get a roommate or two and share a 2 or 3 bedroom apartment. Having roommates saves you a ton of money. If […]
Priorities – Part 2 of 3
This is kind of my version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. You have finished medical school and been granted the MD (or DO) behind your name. Congratulations Dr. Jones! I welcome you to a very exclusive club and a very honorable profession. Quickly you will find yourself drowning in an ocean of medical knowledge as an intern, doing your best to soak up enough of it to get to the next day. However, that is a […]
Mr. Smith and Dr. Jones
Doctors are usually viewed as infallible beings… which is patently false. Having gone through the majority of our lives striving to be the best and continually trying to be correct and trying our hardest to make no mistakes… it hits us even harder when we are incorrect or make a mistake. We are only human. However, we forget this many more times than we remember. During the course of your residency and your career you will make mistakes. For many, […]
Being Human
PRIORITIES – PART ONE: INTRO I felt it is important to talk about priorities. I had a very difficult time about how to formulate this post due to its depth because I don’t want to bore people. This first post will be a primer for what NOT TO DO. I will then go into much more depth about priorities, which will be subdivided into needs and wants. As a 4th year medical student with the cruise control button […]
Priorities – Part 1 of 3
The struggle is real. Oh so real. The realest. Ok, so here’s the deal. As a doctor you have firmly established yourself as middle class, with possible candidacy for upper-middle class. The likelihood of ever being upper class is pretty low. However, as soon as you get an MD behind your name, everyone you know thinks you are ballin’ out of control and makin’ it rain in the club… and well, that is patently false. […]