Senior Discounts

On January 1, 2019, I officially retired from the position I held for 28.5 years. Let the new era begin!In the interest of transparency, I have to tell you that was not entirely my choice; my departure was necessitated by " business reasons " , and, I am assured,not by any problem with my work. The metamorphosis from practicing physician to private citizen (and eventually, I suppose, topatient) is a process I had started a few years ago, when I cut back to working 26, and then 22 weeks per year, dumping call in the process. There were those who couldn ' t understand my action at that time, those who said I was not a " team-player " and that I was " gaming the system " . I strongly disagreed then, and I still do. If anything, at part-time rates, I was a bargain for the niche expertise I provided, but the attitude betrays a level of pain, both self-inflicted and externally-sourced, that many physicians experience, but won ' t discuss.I ' m not totally out of business, however, which I why I demurred on the retirement party the group wanted to give me. (They remind me too much of wakes anyway.) Our med-mal carrier allows us to work up to 60 days per year without additional tail coverage, and so I ' ll be able to keep my hand in the till, I mean the practice, for a while longer. This gives me, at age 60, a bit longer to reinvent myself. I love travel, and had planned on doing more in retirement, but the abrupt loss of revenue (not to mention having to pay $37,000 out of pocket fo...
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