No single job industry for doctors is saturated. Go after whatever you want to do.

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I rage-quit my academic pediatrician job in 2017 with lots of debt and no plan. Doctors don’t have to stay in jobs they hate. We can be successful everywhere.

Nothing creates a part-time job like a full-time resignation. Submit your letter of resignation. They may coming running after you with a part-time offer. If not, find a part-time, per-diem, or locums position elsewhere. No one tells doctors when and where they have to work.

Want to go part-time? Inform your boss/med director/dept. chair of your decision. Do not ask. “I am informing you of my decision to reduce my clinical FTE to 0.75 beginning July 1” Denied? Told it’s “not possible” because of staffing shortages and patient access needs? ➡️➡️

I resigned from my first doctor job when I didn’t want to work there anymore. No other explanation is ever needed.

I will not be bullied into being an underpaid pediatrician. An understaffed department is not my problem.

In medical academia, “protected time” = we’ll give you time to do your job and you should feel so lucky.

Locums isn’t just for near-retirement docs. I began doing locums 3 years after residency and never looked back. -High negotiable rates -Flexible schedule -Clinical work -1099 tax write offs -Opportunities in every specialty 125K/yr to 515K/yr as a pediatrician in CA. Worth it

What residency taught me: Clinical pediatrics. What I taught myself: Negotiation, resignation, malpractice insurance, launching an Scorp, contract review, personal finance, finding locums, per-diem rates, expert witness, VA disability, aesthetics, and medical writing.

Imagine telling a doctor they’re “not allowed” to go part-time. Girl bye.

2011: graduated med school 2014: finished peds residency 2017: quit academic job 2017: went per-diem +locums 2018: launched MedSpa 2020: VA disability exams 2021: Expert witness work 2021: Became a medical writer 2021: Founded Doctoring Differently®️ 2025: featured in @Forbes

When you’ve been dragged on X for 48 hrs, but at least you’ve shown a few doctors not to accept low-ball, no-benefit salary offers.

I’ve spent the last 3 years as a full-time travel pediatrician + consultant/medical writer/expert witness/fractional med director. No med school or residency program taught me how to work this way. The best part? The freedom. The money. The living & working on my own damn terms