Category: Financial/Legal

• Healthcare Advocacy in an Age of Turmoil

  

  Healthcare workers will tell you that it is their job to, first and foremost, ensure that the health and wellbeing of their patients are at the highest levels possible. The general public, of course, wants to be healthy and have access to quality, affordable healthcare. Even (some) politicians want the same. Benjamin Disraeli, an English…

• Addressing Abuse of Power Dynamics in Medical School

  

  Rethinking Residency spoke with Sierra Norman, a fourth year medical student and now activist working to change the culture of medical school and prevent the abuse of power directed at learners. We could tell immediately that Sierra was poised and confident, but that this was a difficult subject. She shared with us an incredibly personal…

• Overcoming Addiction In Residency & Fellowship

  

  Dr. McKeown tells her story of battling, and overcoming, addiction in both residency and fellowship. She tells her story so that others struggling with addiction or substance abuse can know that they are not alone.

• Using A Physician Contract Lawyer: My Experience

  

  I have found that this level of detail is rarely shared with current residents, but hopefully this helps provide a glimpse into the actual process of negotiating your own physician contract for your first job out of residency.

• Getting Disability Insurance In Residency

  

  Step-by-step guide for a resident physician to obtain disability insurance, with comments from my own experience (for reference, this policy was designed for me as a female 30 year old resident, nonsmoker)