<p>CountingDown, that is a hell of a life…</p>
<p>I wish you the best and that you stay alive.</p>
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<p>That’s the world I’m in. TP, WW, Hewitt or Mercer?</p>
<p>Subspecialty physician for 20yrs.</p>
<p>Looking at transitioning to teaching Art History at college level (I have an MA in it) over next couple of years. Will be teaching for a month this fall to see if I like it and it likes me. Have been amazed at how little it pays.</p>
<p>Will probably continue to do some per diem type work as a physican to pay the mortgage, college tuition for DD, and keep my credentials up.</p>
<p>Wow as someone who works in healthcare (pediatrics) I’m really surprised at all the docs leaving the field! I knew about lawyers jumping ship but not so much about docs - at least around here.</p>
<p>VeryHappy – TP, Philadelphia office, 1986-1990. Would still be there if I lived in Philly!</p>
<p>Thanks, dstark. I have S2 to thank for being here today and functional. CPR works. </p>
<p>Now if only fabric art paid anything…I miss having a paycheck and that feeling of productivity.</p>
<p>abasket, when DH went to law school, there were several doctors in his class who were looking to change fields - and were not looking at malpractice.</p>
<p>“Thanks, dstark. I have S2 to thank for being here today and functional. CPR works.”</p>
<p>Wow…
I am glad to read that cpr works.</p>
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<p>There would be more except </p>
<p>1) nothing they can do will pay nearly as much and they/their families can’t accept that they can live on less money
2) having spent all their life in pursuit of one thing, and thereby being unidirectional, they can’t think of what else they could possibly do for a career.</p>
<p>I do know at least a couple of docs locally in their 40/50’s who have gone back into training and changed their specialty.</p>
<p>I practiced law (PI firm) for 5 years, raised kids mostly for 12+ years, p/t special ed hearing officer for 4 years, part-time judge for 4 years & now running non-profit for 5 years. Am not sure how much longer I want to keep grubbing for grants. I like helping people but get tired of all the planning to plan and then the scrambling for funding and reporting.</p>
<p>Our mortgage is nearly full paid off and we have about 1 more year of tuition to go. S is currently full-self supporting and saving much of his income, we think. D may need a bit of help for room & board for a while, but we can help with it.</p>
<p>Am going to weigh my options & see what is attractive going forward. Nice to have the option of continuing with the non-profit or trying to turn it over to another org or whomever wants to carry it on.</p>
<p>Several of the docs I know will be working until all their kids tuitions are paid & then thinking of doing doctors w/o borders or other options. One doc went into financial planning instead of medicine; most of the other docs I know are still in medicine or at least public health.</p>