In Part 2, I explore even more critical factors you may not have considered when vetting an endocrinology physician job.
Category: Fourth Wall
In response to my recent post “Medicine is Well and Truly Screwed, so I Quit”, an endocrinology fellow asked me, “For fellows who are looking for first jobs, what are some things/questions you would highly recommend we look out for/ask?” Realizing that my initial inclination to tell her it’s all hopeless and to give up now might be construed as somewhat unhelpful, I decided to more carefully consider her query.
I finally accepted the fact that the practice of medicine is no longer tenable…so I quit. This is the unflinching look at how I got there.
In a special guest post, HD’s daughter gives readers a peek at what it’s like to live with an Endocrinologist. Hint: sugar is a four-letter word in the house.
Living during this time of the all-consuming coronavirus is ridiculously stressful. If you had the choice to merely survive this ordeal or actually thrive, which would you pick? Yeah, me too.
Can you believe I’ve been doing this for three years now? Fortunately, I’m particularly susceptible to inertia, which has made it fairly easy to continue doing what I launched back in March 2017. Regular readers will remember the victory lap I took in March 2018 after achieving all the goals I set out in my original mission statement. My two-year update in 2019 was not quite as dramatic, but there was some meaningful stuff in there, including the cliff-hanger about a talk I was asked to give to a national audience of Endocrinologists – so let’s kick off the year-in-review with that!
Since the blog’s inception, my philosophy regarding comments has been to allow anyone to say anything. Unfortunately, my permissive approach has allowed a certain type of comment to flourish – the kind that espouses some of the same non-evidence-based claims that this blog was created to debunk. Well, there’s a new sheriff in town.
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