So I'm changing things up for myself.
When I finished residency, you may remember that I was pretty much done with medicine but still needed to earn a living in order to pay off our debts. I chose urgent care because I needed something that was simple in terms of the mechanics of the job and emotionally undemanding in terms of the patient care required. I think urgent care is pretty much the pinnacle of that. See patient, make 1-2 decisions regarding care, discharge patient, write short note. Move on. No call, no critically ill patients (most of the time), minimal paperwork, few moving parts. The hiring process went very smoothly. But for some reason that I barely understood given that I felt like I was aiming to get out of medicine altogether, I threw in an ask in my interview: I wanted to do a little work in my local ED if they were amenable to that. It turned out they were.
