Stories from beyond the hospital.
Explore the experiences, decisions, relationships, and realities shaping life in and around medicine.
How Much House Can a Physician Family Afford?
Six hours after making an offer on a home, we withdrew it. A year later, we understood just how much that decision had protected our family.
How to Help Your Child Understand Their Sibling’s Disability
What our oldest son's relationship with his disabled brother taught us about explaining disability, giving siblings space, and allowing their bond to develop in its own time.
Should Doctors Refinance Their Student Loans?
What physicians should know about federal protections, PSLF, interest rates, repayment plans, and refinancing in 2026.
Physician Burnout Is a Family Problem
Why addressing physician burnout also requires supporting the spouses and families absorbing its effects at home.
What Becoming a Patient Taught Me About Being a Physician
Pregnancy, complications, and motherhood changed the way Dr. Hannah Thompson understood what her patients needed.
Don’t Be Afraid to Live Your Lives
Bryan Frias on fatherhood, staying home with three kids, supporting a physician through residency, and finding community on the other side of medicine.
You’re Never Going to Walk Again
The childhood diagnosis, years of pain, and unlikely recovery that shaped why Dr. Hannah Thompson became a physician.
The Lie We Rarely Say Out Loud
Part 1 of The Family Medicine Forgot: the unseen sacrifices physician families make alongside medicine.
Why Attending Life Didn’t Fix It
Part 2 of The Family Medicine Forgot: why finishing training does not automatically repair what medicine strained at home.
How to Rebuild Without Leaving Medicine
Part 3 of The Family Medicine Forgot: rebuilding a meaningful life without allowing medicine or productivity to become your entire identity.
No Longer Part of the Club
What happens when a meaningful decision to step away from a career still carries real loss.
Navigating Intimacy in Medicine
What residency taught us about connection, communication, and protecting our marriage.
Should You Rent or Buy a Home During Medical Residency?
A practical guide to physician loans, residency timelines, total ownership costs, and deciding whether buying actually makes sense.
10 Things Nobody Tells You Before Medical Residency
Ten honest lessons about what residency changes beyond the hospital, including marriage, call, children, careers, money, and building a real life during training.
Reminisce with the Trans
The Trans share their view on partnership, sacrifice, and building a life through residency and fellowship.
What the Training Years Took
Looking back on the sacrifices medical training required and what one family learned along the way.
Raising a Family in Residency
What we learned about childcare, routines, support, money, and staying connected during training.