It is July. You take over the inpatient service, and you can feel the tension before you open a single chart. The new senior is running rounds for the first time, and the pace is slow. The interns know the medicine. They do not know the system. One of them keeps locking himself out of […]
You forget the diagnosis. Most likely, you will forget names. You will never forget how someone made you feel. Every July, a new class of interns walks onto the wards. The patients change hands. The pagers change owners. Somewhere on the wards, a nervous young physician will learn what kind of place they joined. Not […]
Update April 2026 Many physicians reach a point where the demands of clinical medicine no longer feel sustainable. Some are burned out and want to redesign their practice entirely. Others are curious about nonclinical roles that better fit their talents and lifestyle. When you are standing at that crossroads, two paths commonly emerge: working one-on-one […]
