Quick-Read References
Life after Medicine
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Life's Third Act
Jane Fonda, TedxWomen (2011)
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How To Ikigai
Tim Tamashiro, TEDxYYC (2018)
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How to grow old: Bertrand Russell on what makes a fulfilling life
Maria Popova (Brain Pickings 2018)
- 6 things this doctor learned after retiring
Cory Fawcett 2018
- Life After Medicine: 3 Keys to a Fulfilling retirement
Robert Nagler Miller (2017)
- Retiring early from medicine: Is it ethical?
Val Jones (2018)
- Confessions from a Physician who Failed Early Retirement
Douglas Segan (2017)
- "I Think it's time": Physician Retirement the way you want it
Jenna Payesko (2018)
- Doctors who retire early often met with scorn
Roger Collier (2018)
- Life After Medicine
Alan Roadburg, PhD (2008)
- Retiring from medicine: Do you have what it takes?
Harvey White (2002)
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The Joy of Being a Woman in her 70s
Mary Pipher ( Jan 2019)
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Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
Mary Pipher (2019)
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Why retirement is a flawed concept
Neil Pasricha (April 2016)
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How Japan is Helping Pensioners Stay Happy and Have Fun
Amelia Martyn-Hemphill (March 2019)
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Character Strengths Survey
VIA Institute on Character, Neal Mayerson (2001)
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7 Strange Questions That Help You Find Your Life's Purpose
Mark Manson (2014)
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Jobs, Careers, and Callings: People's Relations to Their Work
Amy Wrzesniewskia, et al (1997)
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The Purpose Of Life Is Not Happiness: It’s Usefulness
Darius Foroux (2016)
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The purpose of Life Isn't To Be Happy--It's to be Fulfilled
Zat Rana (Sept 2107)
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Coursera: The Science of Well-Being
Laurie Santos/Yale
- Retirement Reinvention: Make your next act your best act
Robin Ryan (2018)
- Shifting Gears to your life and work after retirement
Carolee Duckworth & Marie Langworthy (2018)
If You are Still in Medicine
- "I've had it with medicine!" 16 options for second careers
Leigh Page (2014)
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Physician Burnout: It just keeps getting worse
Carol Peckham (2015)
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Doctors and Retirement: It's complicated
Invested MD Management (2019)
- Doctors are fleeing abusive medicine
Dr. "G" (2018)
- MD Exit Strategy
Closed group Facebook page.
- The Doctor's Guide to Smart Career Alternatives and Retirement
Cory Fawcett (2017)
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10 Jobs For Retired Doctors
Jane McGrath (2012)
- The Challenges of Physician Retirement
Roger Collier (2017)
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Solving physician burnout requires so much more than self-care
Linda Girgis (2018)
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Wounded Healers
Sharon Kirkey (2018)
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Physicians Experience Highest Suicide Rate of Any Profession
Pauline Anderson (2018)
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Medscape National Physician Burnout & Depression Report 2018
Carol Peckham (2018)
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Caroline Elton Helps Doctors Heal Themselves
Claudia Dreifus (Jan 2019)
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The ugly side of becoming a surgeon
Miko XX (2019)
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How Retirement Was Invented
Sarah Laskow (October 2014)
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Maybe You Should NEver Retire
Drake Baer (June 2016)
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Doctor, Quit Your Job!: How to Leave Medicine, Change Careers, and Reclaim Your Freedom Once Again
Alex Ding (2014)
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The doctor is out? Why physicians are leaving their practices to pursue other careers
Nicole Spector (August 2018)
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This is why too many doctors are leaving the profession and too few new ones are joining it
Cal Thomas (August 2018)
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The Real Reason Docs Burn Out
Jeffrey Bendix (January 2019)
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Survey Report: Physician Views on retirement
Chad Saley, CompHealth (July 2017)
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How to Break Your Addiction to Work
Rebecca Knight ( Harvard Business Review, May 2016)
Perhaps You Just Need a Change?
On Opting Out
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Regret after leaving a medical career behind
Physician on FIRE (2017)
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In 'Drop-out Club', desperate doctors counsel each other on quitting the field
Sarah Kwon, May (May, 2017)
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Docjobs.com: Jobs beyond traditional clinical and academic jobs in the last 90 days
Dropout CLub LLC (2018)
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The Doctor is Out? Why Physicians are leaving their practices to pursue other careers
Nicole Specter (August 2018)
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Leaving Medicine
medicfootprints.org (September 2018)
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15 tips on what to do if you want to quit medicine
Anjalee Perera (April 2016)
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Best non-clinical jobs for doctors
Heidi Moawad (MD Magazine 2016)
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I retired at 34 with $3 million—here are 5 downsides of early retirement that no one tells you
Sam Dogen (June 2019)
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- How Doctors Think
Jerome Groopman, MD (2008)
- Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors
Caroline Elton (June 2018)
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Leaving medicine: Is the grass always greener?
David Oliver (2017)
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Leaving Medicine
Justine I Davies (2009)
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Leaving Medicine: Is your personality making a career change harder?
Heather Fork (December 2018)
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Do you feel like you wasted all that training?
Michael J. McLaughlin (2013)
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Don't want to be a doc? 15 other jobs you can do with a medicine degree
Student World Online (November 2017)
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Physician Side Gigs
Closed Facebook Group/ Nisha Mehta (since 2015)
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Tired of Medicine? 20 non-clinical career options
Leigh Page (March 2018)
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Careers for medics beyond medicine
Medicfootprints.org (2018)
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Five key findings about how Canadian physicians are preparing for retirement
MD Financial (May 2019)