Table for One

I'm not big into dates, but for some reason I love the start of the new year.  Even though there's nothing magical about the transit...

As a resident, I had almost no time off.  I worked as much as 100 hours in some weeks, often in 24-hour-plus stretches, so I was basically a...

Overwork crept up on my slowly. Work has always felt busy to me, but over the past six months, the intensity has been increasing.  An extr...

When I started medical school, I believed wholeheartedly that physicians were perfect.  I fully expected that, over the following 6-9 years ...

This has been a really, really rough week . Really. I didn't expect it at all.  I finished call at 8 am Monday morning; I had lots o...

Like a number of my favourite bloggers (see here and here ), I recently read Leo Babauta's post about how to not be frustrated all the...

For weeks (months? years?) I've been feeling overwhelmed by work.  My desk has been covered with charts and lab results, my dictation in...

When I was in San Francisco two years ago, immediately before I met my girlfriend in person for the first time, I visited a small bookstore ...

Monday night was a terrible, terrible night during which I tossed and turned in bed, thinking about the 2-hour presentation that I had to gi...

I find the Christmas season stressful.  I'm a person who prefers being undercommited to being overcommited*, so I get easily overwhelmed...

I had no intention of being absent from the blog for as long as I was.  Work got busy; life outside of work got busy; and somehow, in the mi...

I just had a very long phone conversation with a friend trying to figure out what to do with a mutual patient.  She is the patient's att...

I spend far too much time thinking about money. At work, I keep track of every one of my patient encounters, ostensibly to ensure that I...

When I was planning my schedule a few months ago, I thought that I would "start off easy" by being on the consult service for the ...

It's the evening before I return to work, and my feelings are alternating between excited and distraught and absolutely terrified.  It d...

The past few nights I've found myself lying awake for hours on end, stressing about money and my return to work and anything else I coul...

As of tomorrow morning, I will have only one week until I go back to work.  It seems like I've been gone forever; I've managed to re...

Oh this week.  This week has been one full of angst, coming from a variety of sources.  Even though I'm still on vacation (yay), I feel ...

Because nothing says vacation like dealing with your finances, I spent most of my morning today figuring out a strategy for getting myself t...

Before I started medical school, I was a pretty financially responsible person.  Since the age of 18, I had invested a minimum of 10% of my ...