A female primary care physician opines on money, travel, fitness, and other topics to be determined
Nothing I wrote this weekend felt ready to publish.
Instead of skipping another week, I thought it might be time to post links to some interesting articles; I picked three on dealing with medical student loan debt.
Continue reading “A Monday Melange”I was so proud of getting back on track with blogging. All I had to do Thursday night was put a photo in here and press publish. And then the power went out.
Better late than never?
Continue reading “Fitness Log #28”What keeps you going? A question that seems deep and philosophical. Which it might be, but I have a slightly different question in mind. Maybe I am asking, what helps you stick with a routine, or a habit? How do I motivate myself to continue a project?
Continue reading “What Keeps You Going?”Last month, one of my partners left the office a little early to arrange for life insurance. She wasn’t quite sure how much she needed, so she had decided to use the rule of thumb of 8 to 10 times her annual salary.
We talked about this a little, and I realize this is a somewhat silly rule of thumb. Sort of like saying you need to save 12x your salary before you retire.
Continue reading “How Much Life Insurance Do You Need?”One of the favorite things I have heard from a patient is: you’re a doctor, you don’t have to worry about blood pressure. Implying, of course, that doctor’s don’t struggle with their health.
I most certainly do struggle with fitness and health, like many other Americans with sedentary jobs and a proclivity to eat treats. One of my goals is to make sure that I get my 150 minutes a week of moderate exercise (or 75 minutes of high intensity exercise, which probably won’t happen). I was doing well enough that in February I added a second goal of 60 minutes of strength training a week, which remains a challenge.
The last 2 weeks, I did walk part way home most days of the week, but didn’t quite meet my 150 minute challenge. As for the strength training, that didn’t happen at all. I was very excited to start exercising again this week. As I was off the ACP (Amercian College of Physicians) meeting, I was pretty sure I’d be walking plenty: in the convention center, for sure, if not also around the City of Brotherly Love.
I wrote plenty on Monday about financial aspects of attending the American College of Physicians meeting last week. Perhaps more than I planned to.
I thought I might write a shorter bit today about the actual meeting, which I enjoyed very much.
Continue reading “ACP 2019”I’m just back from ACP 2019, the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians, held this year in Philadelphia. I had a great time, and may talk about it all week.
Since I usually blog about financial stuff on Mondays, I thought I might write about some of the money issues around attending such a big meeting.
Continue reading “ACP in Numbers”One of the favorite things I have heard from a patient is: you’re a doctor, you don’t have to worry about blood pressure. Implying, of course, that doctor’s don’t struggle with their health.
I most certainly do struggle with fitness and health, like many other Americans with sedentary jobs and a proclivity to eat treats. One of my goals is to make sure that I get my 150 minutes a week of moderate exercise (or 75 minutes of high intensity exercise, which probably won’t happen). I was doing well enough for a few weeks that I added a second goal of 60 minutes of strength training a week; but then I backslid like crazy. I did turn things around, but long hours in the hospital can make things challenging.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #26”Life has gotten very busy with work, and work, and taxes. As I wrote last week, you can (probably) have it all, but not necessarily all at the same time. I’m taking a little break from blogging and will plan to be back next week.