Work/Life Balance

If medicine is your true calling, balancing home and work is much easier - even if you hate some parts of your job.

At my practice and at home, things are always busy. There's laundry or homework, or a patient with needs.

When my non-practicing physician husband said he was considering home schooling, work-life balance debates resurfaced.

As a physician and a parent, you do the best you can at work, and the best you can at home, and you try to stay sane.

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Looking back on my 20s and the rigors of med school, I definitely feel more grounded now.

Forget about work-life balance! How do physicians find work balance?

I’m not just a physician, wife, and mom. I’m also writing novels, teaching Sunday school, and want to learn knitting.

Can women, especially in medicine, have great professional success and a healthy family life?

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Sometimes the best thing for you - and those around you - is to get out of the office and travel.

It’s ironic that in the health profession, work demands make it difficult to model healthy lifestyle choices to patients.

How the Sequester and SGR issues illuminate the need to find some type of balance in healthcare spending.

Regardless of whether you work or stay home, it isn’t always easy.

As physicians, grasp how much work you can do in one day, adjust your schedule accordingly, and start fresh each new day.

Those of us who are farther along in our careers, who’ve achieved work-life balance, should allow others to learn from our successes and failures and extend a helping hand.

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Why a standardized approach has to be flexible - or the standard has to change.

There is a good reason consistent clinical practice guidelines exist, even though patients have specific needs.

For physicians trying to manage work-life balance, sometimes the problem isn’t what you think it is.

Good advice - the kind that sticks with you and serves you well - is priceless. We asked physicians and clinical staff to share the best career-related guidance they ever received. Here's what they said.

With reimbursement cuts and other financial threats on the horizon, having a future-oriented money strategy is more important than ever.

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Cardiologist David Mokotoff writes about why he has decided to retire; and why he won't miss the constant overseeing of his work by faceless bureaucrats, politicians, and third-party payers.