Month: May 2020

I arrived at the office to find my staff cheerily smiling and expressing excitement about the day ahead. As I perused my schedule, it was moderately full but there was some space left over for addition of patients who called with acute problems that would need to be seen. As I looked more closely at…

(AKA Physician Finance 101) The road to becoming a physician involves a great deal of pain. Don’t believe me? Ask my brother the Doctor (or his wife) who spent untold hours counselling me through Undergraduate, Medical School, and Residency (regarding fears not just limited to failing an exam…a list that would certainly be too long…

The other night, I was asked by my daughter to review her personal statement for Medical School applications (yes, despite watching what her father goes through, she still wants to go to Medical School-probably because her mother, who is also a physician, chose a specialty that is not Primary Care) for grammar and content. When…

Physician pay is a hot topic in both the lay-press as well as in the medical community. The current political climate which has pushed for wealth equity as well as calling for a new “corporate accountability” (Sen. Bernie Sanders) that will put an end to a system that allows corporate CEO’s to earn millions of…