Travel Tips

There's a particular cruelty to finishing a string of night shifts in summer. You drive back to the hotel as the sky is going pale, the world waking up exactly as you're trying to shut it down, and all you want is darkness. So you pull the blackout curtains closed, lie down, and there it is — that thin blade of sunlight slicing straight down the center seam, landing across your face like a spotlight. I've spent more mornings than I'd like fighting that gap. Folding a pillow o

There is a particular kind of loneliness that comes with checking into a hotel room you’ll occupy for the next several weeks. The bed is fine. The shower is fine. The blackout curtains do their job. But somewhere around day four, you start to notice what’s missing: a place to sit that isn’t the bed, a meal that doesn’t come in a bag, a space that feels less like a holding pattern and more like somewhere you actually live. This is the quiet problem that most locum physicians s

People often ask how I travel—especially when they see me roll through an airport with what looks like too much luggage. The short answer: I’m not traveling like I’m on vacation. I’m traveling like I’m living somewhere else. When you’re doing long-haul international travel—weeks or months at a time—while still working, training, and staying active, the typical “one suitcase and a backpack” setup falls apart pretty quickly. I needed a system that gave me redundancy, flexibilit

Time is our most finite currency. For the traveling physician, it’s not just about how we spend our hours—but how we move through them....