Is retirement the end of the road?
Leaving medicine can be a difficult decision to make. You have been part of a very special professional group for very many years, probably though not necessarily.
However there seems to be something about being part of the medical profession that makes leaving it a very difficult decision. Perhaps it is because of the lenght of the training, the very privileged access to humankind’s high and low moments from birth to death and everything in between, that make leaving this privileged position in society a difficult thing to do. And yet for some (including me) it is the way forward.
It took me about a year to make the decision and since then I’ve had no regrets. However it took me several years to get out of the doctor’s skin’ and become ‘me.’
How about you? Are you wondering whether or not to take the plunge into the unknown of ‘Life after Medicine’??
When you make that difficult decision you will find there is a life out there. But first consider what you want to move towards outside of medicine. For some of you there may be a middle way, a way to combine working as a doctor and having more of a life too.
