In this episode(  Becca finally joins again and we discuss our crazy hectic lives as I seek to learn eye surgery and develop surgical instruments and she navigates the wild world of night shift ER medicine and gears up for fellowship application time. We talk about our goals- old and new and what progress we're making on them and plans for the future. This is mostly a fun episode where we just catch up and riff. 

In this one I go solo and talk about how medical training broke me down mentally, physically, and emotionally and when I re-emerged from that low point I began approaching ophthalmology and my life in a different way that made me happier, more productive, and more successful. I learned this secret the hard way. Listen closely to me so you don't have to.  

I explore my personal reasons for wanting to pursue a solo practice setup and eventually build it into something great- for me meaning a multi-partner oculplastics group practice with an incoroprated fellowship. 

We explore why it's hard to give and get useful feedback in medical training and reveal some of the personal feedback we've had as doctors. 

We explore the book "Make it Stick" which talks about the scientifically-proven ways of learning and encoding information in our brains. What leads to true understanding of a concept and how is it solidified. 

In this one, I explore the humanity paradox and how medicine demands a highly ethical human being and then confronts them with situations that will strip that humanity- and the journey to find it again. 

In this episode we go over the difficulties of making friends that then move away over and over again as medical training transplants you around the country and how this is very psychologically and emotionally difficult. 

In this episode my new co-host and wife Rebecca Duron, MD explore the ups and downs of having a relationship when there's 1 or more parties in medicine. 

I explore how the medical machine steals your identity and what you can do to try to regain your sense of self and uniqueness that you may have lost along the way. 

In this episode we explore why it is so difficult to leave medicine once you are in the fold. It's reminiscent of the mafia in this way. The choice to pursue medicine is one we make a relatively young age, and then get more or less locked into. Let's explore why and whether or not this is a bad thing.