Posts Tagged ‘Family Practice’
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Choose My Medical Specialty
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.
Read moreChoosing Your Medical Specialty: Family Medicine
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 specialty-to-be, family practice (renamed family […]
Read moreRural Practice Myths Busted
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 which are necessarily […]
Read moreFamily Medicine – Evolution and Rewards
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 my first child […]
Read moreThe Job Doctor Mailbag: Employment Gaps and Competitive Job Markets
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 making any progress. I am coming […]
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