What Resident Meal Card Taught Me about Retirement

  Don’t spend money just because you have it. I see residents buying $3.50 brownies, $2 surgary, or worst diet drinks from the cafeteria. I would never do that for a multitude of reasons. For one, drinks loaded with sugar

5 Ways Having More Harms Us

Chinese proverb says, “Grandfather dies of hunger, father dies of exhaustion, son dies of decadence.” What pitiful progression of generations.   I’d venture to say that most attending doctors have children who pretty much have everything their heart desire at

Confessions of A Sleep-a-phobic

Have you ever wonder how I worked 7 jobs while double-majoring at UC Berkeley, and manage to cook and entertain my friends at my college apartment regularly? How I worked 2 jobs as a single mom medical student? How I

Medicine: The Ultimate Inhumane Pursuit of Humanity

One of my mentors whom I look up to in life recently announced her retirement, she wrote, “It’s time for me to take care of my loved ones and myself. I’ve delayed, de-prioritized, sacrificed those closest to me as I care

Seems Costly, but Definitely Worth It.

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” ― Lao Tzu     I have rarely felt peace