Nobody Warns You About This Part: Loneliness, Dating, and Building a Life Where Your Program Sent You
Resident isolation isn’t a personal failure—it’s a design outcome of schedules that prevent recurring commitments, programs too small for co-resident overlap, and relocation to places where you know no one. This piece names the structural inputs, addresses dating honestly, and argues that proximity to family and social infrastructure belongs on your rank list and job criteria.
First Physician Strike Signals Pay Leverage Shift
A four-day walkout by 150 Allina Health physicians produced a first contract built around compensation-model transparency, staffing autonomy, and noncompete release rather than salary percentiles — a signal that physician pay negotiation is moving from individual productivity formulas to organized bargaining. With 82% of physicians now corporately employed and nearly half open to unionizing, exit-based leverage is weakening while collective leverage builds. Federal CPOM legislation and state noncompete limits add a second requirement: evaluating who actually controls the compensation formula before signing.