Rural's Schedule: How to Have a Life

One physician’s answers on how to have a life start right out with his Google Calendar. Good insight on how important it is and some good tips on how to go about it…get off the call registers when going on vacation too…BD

I know I haven't presented a very rosy portrait of a doctor's work/life balance, but then again this life isn't all roses, is it? If you want regular hours, ten holidays and four weeks of vacation per year, and don't like the idea of a 12-hour shift unexpectedly turning into a 16-hour shift (and this happens all the time), then medicine probably isn't the life for you.