Physician In Numbers – Page 2 – A female primary care physician opines on money, travel, fitness, and other topics to be determined

To Those About To Match

Match Day is coming up, and soon 4th year medical students will find out where they will be training for the next several years.

Best of luck to those waiting to hear the news, I hope any senior medical students reading are happy with their result.

A woman holding a bouquet and reading a letter. — A wish: You should look this happy opening your Match Day results.

From a financial standpoint, making the transition from a tuition-paying, negative income flow state to working (and paycheck earning) is huge.

Making better decisions during residency can really set you up for financial success as an attending.

I don’t like to imply that if you don’t get it right now, you’ll be doomed, because that isn’t true. However, you can really make your attending life easier based on habits you build earlier.

Fitness Log #330, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 years, and plan to continue doing so.

Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.

Fitness Log #329, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 years, and plan to continue doing so.

My Favorite Posts By Other People, February 2025

I read many blog posts each day. They mostly focus on personal finance, but also on minimalism and travel . Here are some of my favorite posts I read in February.

Fitness Log #328, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 years, and plan to continue doing so.

One More Year (Or Two), Here I Come

As I wrote two weeks ago, I had a meeting with my boss to discuss what my job might look like going forward. Actually, it was a pretty easy conversation, and all the changes I asked for were approved.

It’s very exciting, if a little scary, to contemplate cutting back significantly. I was able to put off thinking about it for a week, as my sister-in-law’s visit was quite a distraction. (Nothing bad, it’s just time consuming to have a house guest.)

Now I am starting to put the changes in action, talking to people at work about making those adjustments to my schedule and my paycheck.

What changes am I looking at?

Fitness Log #327, Friday Firsts, Fabulousness, And Monthly Goals

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 years, and plan to continue doing so.

Lack Of Moderation

After my blogging burst in January, my writing time seems to have dried up. With guests at home, I don’t think it will be reversed in time for a great post this Monday.

Instead, please enjoy a piece honoring our First President of the USA:

Fitness Log #326, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness

I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 6 years, and plan to continue doing so.

FIRE vs OMYS (one more year syndrome)

Just a short post today, as my thoughts have been darting all over the place in the past week.

I am meeting with my boss (one of my many bosses) this week, to discuss what my position might look like going forward.

Even though I think I know what I want, I’m torn between joining multiple friends in retirement, and continuing to practice medicine at my current institution.

A woman in a long white dress holds a large sketchbook in her lap as she sits in an empty studio. In the window behind her, a couple stands on the balcony of a distand building — This woman is literally at the drawing board.

Of course, what I want and what my boss can agree to may be very different things. Especially given the uncertainty these days with government funding.

I hope to have, as we say, some clarity about my future by the end of the week.

What’s new with you?