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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Choose My Medical Specialty

By Ryan Montoya, M.D. - February 19, 2019

Choosing the right medical career is, like any other form of employment, filled with philosophically wondrous but functionally useless platitudes. The adage “do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life” decorates countless commencement speeches and career day addresses. Maybe that works for some jobs. In medicine, that strikes me as a bit backwards.

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Choose My Medical Specialty

Choosing Your Medical Specialty: Family Medicine

By Faith A. Coleman, MD - October 20, 2015

Sometimes (most of the time?) a career path chooses its "owner," rather than the owner planning and executing the carefully laid out elements of a career. When I was putting together a map for my

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Choosing Your Medical Specialty: Family Practice

Rural Practice Myths Busted

By Faith A. Coleman, MD - March 17, 2015

The phrase "rural medical practice" may bring images to mind of cows and silos, a primitive office with archaic trappings and your services paid for with a carton of eggs or a bushel of produce (none of

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Rural Practice Myths Busted

Family Medicine - Evolution and Rewards

By Faith A. Coleman, MD - October 30, 2014

Surgery was my passion. I worked very hard to earn a position with a surgical residency at a top-100 hospital. Six months before I was to start my own odyssey (a la Grey’s Anatomy), I learned that

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The Job Doctor Mailbag: Employment Gaps and Competitive Job Markets

By The Job Doctor - October 16, 2014

Pharmacist Job Search in Charlotte Not Working Out Jenny, Pharmacist from Charlotte, NC: I’ve been searching for a pharmacist job in and around Charlotte, NC for the past 6 months, and I’m not really

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