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Is Medicine different?
Thinking about how leaving the medical profession makes me wonder how or if it differs from leaving other professions or occupations. Is it different for a person leaving Medicine than for someone leaving for example th teaching profession or the legal profession? Probabaly not hugely. Any long time profession can have a huge effect on [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Gestation of a new book
Radcliffe has agreed to publish my new book about ‘Life After Medicine’ so now the work begins! It will be a few more days or weeks until I have the manuscript ready to send to them and the process of publishing can take another few months.
This process has parallels about life after medicine and retirement [...]
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 [...]
Letting go
When you leave medicine there is a big transition to make, particularly in relation to who you are. Your whole identity is so tied up in your role as medical practitioner that when you leave medicine it takes time for not only you but others too to see you as you are not as your [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Doctors suppress their creativity!
Maybe this is a controversial statement but I think that the way doctors have to be very precise and follow certain quite precise procedures, means that they tend to use their logical side (left brain) much more than their creative ‘right’ brain.
When I decided to leave medicine I wanted to paint (and maybe I still [...]
