Top 11 advice physicians would give their younger selves

No matter the profession, everyone wishes they could go back in time and provide sage wisdom to their younger selves to help ease the path that awaits them.

It’s no different in medicine.

We recently asked members of the Medical Economics Editorial Advisory Board and our 200-physician member Reader Reactor Panel what they would say to their younger selves in medical school or residency about medicine.

What do you wish you knew back then? Tell us at medec@ubm.com.

Wayne Chen, MD

Geriatrics

Los Angeles, California

(Chen serves as medical director of managed care for Alignment Health, a Medicare Advantage plan).

Susan P. Osborne, DO
Family medicine
Floyd, Virginia

Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH
Family medicine
Rancho Mirage, California

Elizabeth Seymour, MD
Family medicine
Denton, Texas

Steven Horvitz DO
Family medicine
Moorestown, New Jersey

Jeffrey Kagan, MD
Internal medicine
Newington, Connecticut

Kagan

Steven Thau, MD
Pulmonologist
Stamford, Connecticut

Thau

Allan Purdie, MD

Family medicine
Rome, Georgia

John Bakos, MD/PhD

Internal medicine / pediatrics

Sacramento, California