by Heather Zamarron, PA | Jun 29, 2026 | Medicine, Personal Finance
A few weeks ago, I was taking over a shift in the ER when one of my friends was giving me sign-out. The department was already on fire (not literally… thankfully), and he started apologizing for how busy and rough the next 12 hours would be. I shrugged and said...
by Neill Slater, MD MBA | Jun 8, 2026 | Medicine
Not many laypeople think of physicians as lazy. Most people have at least a vague idea of what we have to go through to become doctors. We excel academically in high school and college. We run the gauntlet of volunteer...
by Heather Zamarron, PA | May 26, 2025 | Business, Medicine
I’m about to start my seventh year in medicine. I’m not exactly sure when I started to feel confident in my clinical skills, but I’ve earned a little “street cred” as a PA at some point. On the flip side, when it comes to owning a...
by Neill Slater, MD MBA | Apr 24, 2025 | Medicine, Personal Finance
During the last two years of my residency, I made over six figures annually, and this was in an era when a resident’s salary was less than $50,000. How? Through moonlighting, which I believe is a vital part of any resident’s...
by Heather Zamarron, PA | May 27, 2024 | Medicine
We live and work in an era where patients expect to get what they want and make their complaints known if they don’t. In the minds of many of our patients, steroid shots and Rocephin cure the common cold, and antibiotics are the only way to get rid of a sore...
by Heather Zamarron, PA | Apr 22, 2024 | Medicine
As medical professionals, we are used to everyone having all eyes on us during a crisis. We get paid to make decisions, right or wrong. We’re expected to be the adults in the room who know what to do. It’s part of the job description. As parents, our number one...
