Category: retirement

  • Lifelong Learning “Not Excessively Rare”

    Lifelong Learning “Not Excessively Rare”

    As I get ready to go back on service at the hospital as a psychiatric consultant, I’m trying to get my head back into the game by reading papers like Psychiatric News. The March 15, 2019 issue (volume 54, number 6) has an interesting article about how medical students are learning these days, entitled “Wright…

  • Back in the Saddle–So Soon?

    Back in the Saddle–So Soon?

    A feature of phased retirement is that I’ve still got a foot in both worlds–the world of chasing all over the hospital as a consulting psychiatrist and the world of retirement. Maybe it’s more like flying through a wormhole vortex between two dimensions. I’ve been off service for months and will be back in the…

  • The Retiring Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist

    The Retiring Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist

    I’m a retiring Consultation-Liaison (C-L) Psychiatrist and this blog is a chronicle about my transition from being a physician to–what? I’m not exactly sure, but I’ll find out. I won’t be offering financial advice about how to prepare for retirement. There are plenty of experts out there for that; I’m not one of them. I’m…