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Cultivating relationships during residency training cultivate family physician married with children quality time relationships residency training

Many residents cultivate friendships during residency, others cultivate more intimate relationships, and some cultivate their...

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It's okay not to do all the things. constraint decisions family physician priorities regret resident

I likely learned constraint earlier in my career than others out of sheer necessity. My husband and I were a 2-resident-physi...

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