A Life Outside Residency Starts Smaller Than You Think
Residents who come home too tired to do anything often blame their discipline, then set goals built for a 40-hour week. This post makes the case for a small, protected floor of one person, one body habit and one non-medical thing, sized for your worst rotation, and shows how to use the time ACGME rules already guarantee.
Ownership, Not Demand, Is Reordering Specialty Pay
Gastroenterology now has the highest starting offers while orthopedics still out-earns it in practice, and cardiology set record pay as its youngest physicians took a 19% cut. These gaps track practice ownership, consolidation and likely buyers more than clinical demand. Physicians and recruiters should judge offers by who owns the practice and where it is headed, not by specialty rank alone.