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Hello and welcome to Clinician Lifestylist! A little about me here- I have a clinical doctorate degree and professional license. After finishing my training and preparing to start a “real job,” I very quickly I realized that personal finance and lifestyle management were going to be just as valuable skills. 

I work in a respectable academic medical center, with hospital privileges and a faculty appointment. By many accounts I have “made it” as an early career clinical professional. On the other hand, there’s living in an expensive city, seeing the full reality of working in my chosen profession, and thinking about the next phase in adult life. 

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There are some well developed websites out there for doctors, but I was also somewhat discouraged to constantly hear about family medicine docs, psychologists, nurse practitioners, veterinarians, and many clinicians described as “low-income” and advised in a different manner. This kind of relative thinking can lead to a downward spiral that might contribute to poor mindset and consequently poor lifestyle management. Everyone knows at least theoretically to avoid Keeping Up with the Joneses, but who wants to be told that they are the Littles? The reality is that the best advice will generalize broadly without much calculation about if it will work for you compared to others. Even more, we know that positive mindset and positive environment are some of the most valuable tools in developing and maintaining helpful skills.

Onward

I’ve enjoyed sharing my ideas with people and my life and would love to build a community here to discuss how clinicians and medical professionals are crafting their lifestyle. So pull up a chair, subscribe, follow, or direct message me. What do you think?