If you're a new attending or about to finish residency, this one is for you. I cover the things nobody sits you down and explains before you cross the line from resident to staff physician: how stress changes rather than disappears, why saying yes to everything will cost you your schedule and your sanity, how to think about flexibility in your contracts, and why your finances need more attention than anyone is probably giving them right now.

This is the conversation I wish someone had with me on the last day of residency. Whether you're freshly graduated or a few years in and something isn't sitting right, these are the fundamentals worth knowing.

0:00 Introduction

0:39 Stress Doesn't Go Away

2:37 Learning to Be Selfish

4:00 Not Everything Is an Emergency

5:28 Don't Make Medicine Your Whole Identity

7:35 Protect Your Flexibility

9:53 Financial Traps New Attendings Fall Into

12:45 What's Coming Next

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I am a physician (M.D.) practicing a mix of hospitalist medicine, and urgent care. I learned a lot in my journey to becoming a physician and about more than just medicine. Follow along as I reflect and teach what I wish I knew, which for the most part, is the stuff you don’t learn in school.

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