Good advice above^^
I’ve only been an attending for 5 years, but some things I have found valuable:
-Take a job where you’re doing a wide variety of your own cases.
-White cost investor “attending waterfall buckets” is pretty fool proof way to start out, financially.
-Pick a group made of colleagues who will be willing and happy to help you out.
-Ask for help early before you get yourself into any sort of trouble and try to become as aware as possible of your own ego in your decision making. “It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble, it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
-Be aware of how things are done/handled in your group-from managing potentially difficult personalities to the handling of difficult cases.
-Don’t rush. If you’re simply feeling rushed, that can sometimes be the same thing.
-I’ve never regretted placing an endotracheal tube, arterial line, central line or asking for help in starting a case.
-I think being an anesthesiologist is sometimes a lot like being an umpire-if everything goes well and you’re good, people won’t notice much, but if anything goes wrong, all eyes are on you.
-The earlier you get as much capital into tax efficient investment vehicles, the faster your $ will begin to do some heavy lifting. It’s hard to beat dollar cost averaging into VTI or VOO. Lifestyle creep can happen easily and life seems to be a series of curveballs in many situations.
Idk if this is super obvious stuff, but it’s just what came to mind. Good luck-this forum has always been helpful to me in a lot of ways provided you can tune out the noise and focus on listening to advice from people who get it.
JM
