How to Live Frugally During the Training Years (and Beyond) By Laura Ditkofsky Becoming a doctor is a pricey endeavor. From med school tuition, to interview travel, to moving expenses, to examination fees, it is a long and expensive road. Doctors in training and their spouses are forever in search of ways to save money. […] Continue reading → 
The Art of the Medical Move By Jordyn Paradis Hagar As summer wanes, July 1st has come and gone and the new med students, interns and residents are settling in. Not to mention those physicians starting a new job that comes at the end of training (at least I’ve heard that’s what happens at the […] Continue reading → 
Be Flexible and Avoid Resentment by Donna Baver Rovito Recently, a young intern’s wife expressed her frustration and despair to her new resident husband, during the fifth week of his internship, telling him that residency is so much harder than she’d expected, and that it’s difficult for her to handle their children on her own […] Continue reading → 
So You Married a Physician… By Julia E. Sotile, MSW, LCSW: Mary O. Sotile, MA, LPC; Wayne M. Sotile, PhD. Our years of experience working with physicians and their families have taught us that medical couples (both one- and two-physician couples) who transition into and out of medical training deal with a similar dynamic: […] Continue reading → 
Practical Advice for Nurturing our Medical Marriages By April Thorpe Doctor husbands are like puppy dogs. That got my own doctor husband Matt’s attention a few nights ago, as he was standing at the kitchen counter chopping veggies for our dinner. (Let me pause and say that having Matt home for dinner on a regular […] Continue reading → 
(Editor’s note – Please allow us to introduce Sarah Smith Johnson, the newly appointed editor of the Physician Family weekly blog. Sarah brings a wealth of editing and writing experience to our editorial advisory board, and we’re thrilled to have her with us. A lifelong medical family member, Sarah has navigated a long training road with […] Continue reading → 
(Editor’s Note: June and July are times of immense change for medical families, so we’re focusing on people in the midst of those changes. Last week we heard from someone whose husband had just completed his first year of residency and she was kind enough to share her insights. This week, we hear from someone […] Continue reading → 
By Marysa Stevens As the end of my husband’s intern year approaches this week, I’ve taken some time to reflect on where I was a year ago and what I can walk away with from this experience. Just like four years of medical school don’t actually prepare our spouses to suddenly wake up one day […] Continue reading → 
by Maria Lesetz, Certified Life Coach for Doctors It was a Wednesday afternoon and “John” was calling me for his first coaching session to discuss the specific challenges he was facing as a result of being married to a physician. He was not sure what to expect from the coaching but had indicated prior to […] Continue reading → 
by Donna Baver Rovito This past weekend I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with surgical residents and their significant others at two separate events, one a cocktail party at a popular local club, and the other a pool party at my own house. A consistent topic of conversation at these two […] Continue reading →