Dollars & Sense: Happiness & Balance in life,
Why not both!!!!



Since graduating from my family medicine residency program, I have worked in many different medical settings. I spent 4 years as an employed staff physician for 2 different hospital owned outpatient clinics. Next, I set up my own LLC providing house-calls and boat-calls at the lake community while keeping busy other times moonlighting in the nearby urgent cares. In search of a better lifestyle and perhaps a more lucrative practice, I obtained proper certificates and training to be able to provide care in cosmetic medicine, laser photo-rejuvenation and laser varicose vein treatments. After one year of cosmetic medicine, I realized how much I missed clinical care for patients of all ages with their variety of problems. I did not want to go back to being employed by hospitals so I decided to join a private practice. The next 6 years, I provided ambulatory, preventative and urgent care with another physician in a private office setting. As family physicians, we are trained to provide professional and compassionate care for our patients regardless of what setting our practice happen to fall under. We do our best for our patients whether we are employed by a big organization or in a small private rural office practice. We do our best regardless, and in many cases our best comes with a sacrifice of time away from our own personal life. Less than a year ago, I left the private practice to join Tri-Area Community Health Center in Floyd Virginia where I found the most ideal practice setting. Working at a Community Health Center is very satisfying professionally, fairly lucrative financially, and guarantees to balance your life ideally.
Stay tuned with my future blogs as I breakdown the details of different medical settings.....