Physician families are accustomed to handling difficult things. Medicine demands long hours, high-stakes decision-making, constant responsibility, and an extraordinary capacity to care for others unde...

Inside the AMA Alliance: Educate. Advocate. Connect.

What exactly does the AMA Alliance offer physician families today?

Some families have been part of the Alliance for decades. Others may recogni...

The Friendship Gap in Medicine

A physician can spend all day surrounded by people and still have no one she feels she can truly call.

That contradiction sits at the center of my conversation with pe...

What Happens When the Physician Comes Home—but the Stress Doesn't?

Medicine teaches physicians how to keep going.

Keep working when you're tired. Ignore hunger. Hold your bladder. Move to the next p...

What physicians and their families need to know about disability insurance, GSI coverage, and protecting the income their lives depend on.

A physician’s income can look solid on paper. The years of t...

When Money Can’t Replace Time: Raising Grounded Kids in Physician Families

There is an uncomfortable contradiction inside many physician households.

Parents spend years sacrificing to create stabili...

A physician employment contract may appear to answer one primary question: How much will I be paid? Yet the salary is only the most visible part of the agreement. The provisions buried deeper in the d...

Medical malpractice litigation is often viewed as a legal event. Attorneys become involved. Depositions are scheduled. Court dates are set. Yet for many physicians and their families, the legal procee...

If there's one thing medicine teaches physician families exceptionally well, it's how to wait. We wait for medical school to end, residency to be over, the first attending job to begin, and the schedu...

You can deeply love your spouse and still miss feeling close to them.

For many physician couples, that realization arrives quietly.

There is no major conflict. No dramatic argument. No obvious crisi...