I paid off my medical school loans within five years of completing medical training. I did this on a salary of an infectious disease specialist, a salary that is lower than that of other physicians, a salary that today remains below the total amount of student loan that I accrued. My loans were all private […]
Death, Decrepitude and Familial Guilt
Life. Death. One of the greatest truths I have learned in medicine is that death is normal. Society operates from the standpoint that if we do “everything possible” death will not come. But death comes to everyone. And sometimes death is ugly, very ugly. I have come to the realization that we do a disservice […]
Living in Fear – When Patients Kill Doctors
As humans, we judge the people that we meet even before we know anything about them. Even before we hear what they have to say, we have categorized them in a box – “nice”, “stupid”, “racist”. When we hear bad or unpleasant news, it is tough for us to separate our feelings about that news […]
Is It Time To Loosen Purse Strings?
Major life milestone alert. Yes indeed. Finally, after five years I have watched my $230,000 student loan debt dwindle down to ZERO. Hallelujah! It has not been easy but I can say now “never again!” What misery those years were. I did not know when I signed the promissory notes for each of those loans […]
Ebola In the United States
The inevitable has occurred. While there have been four patients with Ebola physically present somewhere in the United States at some point this summer, today it has been announced that for the first time, a patient has been diagnosed with Ebola in the country. This is an announcement of historical proportions. Never before has Ebola […]
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