Last January, Polk County Medical Association member Dr. Glen Barden spent the month on a medical mission in Ethiopia, his third mission since 2008. He also spends one day each week at Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine, a clinic founded to help meet the medical needs of the working uninsured in Polk County. Dr. Barden …
Calling it Quits: Planning to Retire from Your Medical Career Physicians can put in 12+-hour days, then be on-call during the weekend. Vacations may be punctuated by interruptions to check on patients via the Internet or take phone calls from office staff. So doctors may secretly— or not so secretly— long for the day they …
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In your opinion, what’s an important, but oftentimes overlooked part of planning for retirement in the medical field? Dr. Wiley Koon Retired family practitioner from Winter Haven Hospital “I overlooked the fact that it was going to cost more than I thought it would! The one place I feel deficient in planning for …
