For all of you hard-core docs who put everyone's needs ahead of your own, please stop the self-abuse. Love yourself first.

Discover what really goes on behind the scenes at Caribbean medical schools before making a huge mistake. Here are the pros and cons from a student who knows.

The right mentor will help you manifest your goals in record time. The wrong mentor may undermine your best laid plans. An antimentor is a person you'd never want to become. Beware of antimentors and wrong mentors disguised as the right mentors.

Today I realized that if I become a dog walker and charge $25/hour and walk 5 dogs per day I would make my equivalent salary with a lot less hassles. I'm seriously considering this as a career move. I could be the most over-qualified dog walker out there with a bachelors, masters, doctorate and specialty certification!

Wellness is defined as the state of being in good health, especially as an actively pursued goal. Here's the problem: actively pursued sounds like work. Wellness is too controlled, measured, and almost forced upon us. Who's really excited to join a "wellness committee" this week?

What's it worth to have 11+ years of training and 200K student loans? Where does all that delayed gratification and self-sacrifice lead? Some urgent care jobs pay docs $75/hour meanwhile patients want to see doctors for a $20 copay. Is that all we're worth?

Sleep deprivation is more dangerous than working under the influence of alcohol. In fact, being awake for at least 24 hours is like having a blood alcohol content of 0.10% (higher than the legal limit in all states). Fatigue leads to car wrecks, plane crashes, and fatal medical mistakes. Thankfully, most employers have excellent safeguards so workers are well rested to prevent these catastrophes. Except for hospitals.

Most physicians appear self-assured. Yet even doctors have self-doubts. But who wants an insecure physician? A confident doctor inspires confidence in patients. So how do physicians cope with their hidden insecurities?

Last week I spoke at a residency retreat. A surgery resident asked for my big take-home message. Here it is (and this applies to everyone on the planet not just medical students and physicians).

Alexandra Friedman has been awarded $10,000 as the recipient of the 2017 Judith Wible, M.D., Scholarship for Visionary Women in Medicine. She just may be the first Chassidic woman physician in the US.