This discussion is something I’ve tossed around in my head for awhile. As I have gone back and forth on the topic, I decided to debate myself while I answer the question. The question of the day: Is work-life balance a real thing? If so, what is it and can it be achieved, specifically in […]
The Financial Folly of the U.S. Healthcare System
I write this, aware that as a physician, I am at least at times partially complicit in the financial folly that is the U.S. healthcare system. The one which ostensibly Congress is “improving,” but which is in fact doing very little, if anything to address the myriad issues with our healthcare system (and to the […]
Make Sure Your Kids Sheep Are Not Eaten By The Wolf
A Parable, Featuring Rogue One The Scene: 7am, Tuesday morning. Rogue One (8 years old) woke up multiple times overnight scared of something. He ended up in our bed after waking us up several times (by successfully annoying us enough to end up in our bed). I’ve already been up and helped my wife get […]
Hurricanes in H-Town, Eid, and Sacrifice
Today is the perfect day to announce the charitable mission of this blog. If the blog survived a few months and generated some revenue, I wanted to donate a portion of the money to charity (partially inspired by the incredible blogger/doctor, PhysicianOnFire). So 10% of all blog revenue will be donated to charity. Not 10% of […]
Serenity Now & Death in the ER
Our first newsletter — “Rogue Dad’s Best of the InterWebs” — is hopefully going to drop in a few weeks. Subscribe to receive it (only 3-4x/year planned at the moment), along w/notifications of my weekly posts. In addition to Blog/InterWeb article highlights, I’ll pull the veil and give blog statistics, share my secret to MASSIVE […]
The Meaning of Alt-Brown
This blog went live in April, 2017 — I have yet to explain the blog tagline (“An alt-brown look at medicine, money, faith, and family”), or provide a blog “origin story.” It’s probably taken this long because as in many other things, I take awhile to get to the point. I tend to ramble and […]