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No, Really, I Want to Be Here

I thought I was fooling people, but I was only fooling myself. Everyone, deep down, knows if we're about it... or not. And I figured out the tell.
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Can't Live With It, Can't Live Without It

I thought it best to leave medicine behind me. It was just an eight year chapter that I wished to never repeat, right? Two years of time has revealed a surprising opposite: I can't survive without it. ----
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A 35-Year-Old Completes Adolescence

Just because you leave an adolescent age (and enter medical school... and become a doctor... then become a psychiatrist), doesn't mean adolescence leaves you. Or so I've lived and understood, only now, at 35 years old.
Better late than never. 
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Erikson's Stages of Development
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The Eternal Impact of One Choice

When it's all said and done, I hope to own a collection of choices that helped me understand who I am. And I hope I made the right ones because they're going to impact everyone I know.
We're all in this together. ...
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Essay link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/07/03/the-eternal-impact-of-one-choice/
 

A First in Many Moons—The Hunt Stops

For the past eight years, I've been afraid to pause, scared to rest, and reticent to enjoy. Unconsciously, I knew I couldn’t bear the risk. But now, I consciously understand I must.
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What Does It Mean to Lose?

We play the game of our life to discover who we are. That and other revelations had while watching my wife's tennis tournament.... 
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We Self-Deceive to Survive

I just understood why I really wrote my first book: to prevent myself from ever making my medicine mistake again.
But playing the game not to lose is no way to play the game. To step forward, I remembered a sage piece of little league advice from my dad.___
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Written in the Stars: Psychiatry and Me

When I look back now, it seems I always meant to be a psychiatrist. Out of necessity. If I wanted to open up a door into a future that wasn't just a replication of my past, becoming a shrink was always the skeleton key. 
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Book link: 32 Lessons from 8 Years Lost in Medicine
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Infinite Reflections in Medicine's Mirror

They say, "Wherever you go, there you are." I'd like to add, "and so follow your object relations." When I went to medical school for my family, I unwittingly melded medicine and family together. Only after I left, could I see the two as separate, make peace, and gratefully love them both. 
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How Little Everything Else Matters

Turns out, owning a sense of self kinda matters. Essay Link: https://fightmastermd.com/2024/05/23/how-little-everything-else-matters/
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