By Susanna Hindman So you’ve opened that long-anticipated, hard-earned envelope on Match Day and finally discovered where your family is headed for the next three to five years. How did you feel when that destination was finally revealed? Scared, excited, anxious, hesitant, thrilled, disappointed, amazed, surprised? All of the above? March 15, 2013. That was […] Continue reading → 
By Monica Swanson My husband and I are raising four sons. I am their homeschool teacher, though (thankfully) they do their work online and have excellent and qualified teachers for each subject. Our oldest son is a junior in high school now, and so begins the college prep process: ACTs and SATs, college visits, scholarship […] Continue reading → 
By Moira Muldoon Trying to explain Match Day and all its attendant stresses and excitement is tough. Partly I suspect that’s because it’s tough to cram a couple years’ worth of work into a few short paragraphs: It’s not like Match is just one day. Rather, it’s the culmination of years of work. It might […] Continue reading → 
It’s Never Too Early to Start Thinking About Retirement Planning By Donna Baver Rovito UPDATE – the registration fee for the Physicians Financial Summit in Orlando May 1-4 highlighted in this blog has been eliminated. Alliance members and physician spouses are now invited to register for this event AT NO CHARGE! You’ll still have to […] Continue reading → 
By Dawn Mast For the record, I’m a homebody. Which is weird because I’m an extrovert so people expect me to enjoy road trips and party with the stars. But the truth of the matter is road trips stress me out and I don’t know any celebrities. So it stands to reason that the Lord […] Continue reading → 
(Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared here on “The Other Half,” a blog by Angelic Rodgers dedicated to medical spouse experiences from the “other half”: Husbands, lesbians, and empty nesters (by choice or from the effects of time). By Angelic Rodgers I don’t know of many things more stressful than interviewing for a job–whether it is […] Continue reading → 
By Elizabeth Stuelke When my hips hurt I think of my dad. Why would I want to write about my dad, such a personal subject? To help other people when they hear his story. How could that happen? It’s such an unusual story, or he was such a non-usual person or lived his life as […] Continue reading → 
(Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared here on KevinMD. Stay tuned for more of Wendi’s original work on the Physician Family blog and to read more of her previously published writing, visit her personal blog.) By Wendi Kitsteiner I thank God every day that a doctor had the audacity to say to me, “You are going […] Continue reading → 
(Editor’s Note: This week’s post originally appeared here on the personal blog of Dawn Mast. Stay tuned for more original work from Dawn and her medical mission adventures with her physician family.) By Dawn Mast It’s an interesting dynamic when your husband is a physician and you are, well, not. I vacillate between feeling like a […] Continue reading → 
By Erin Allen If you are in med school, residency or fellowship you hear over and over that “it gets better”: that cookie (or in my case, glass of wine) that is dangling in front of you at the end of training. I’m not writing about how hard the training years (all twelve of them) […] Continue reading →