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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here- curious what fields of medicine everyone friends/ family in medicine seem to work only 1 day a week? Most jobs won’t hire you for such a small amount as that doesn’t even cover malpractice. Even in more traditionally more family friend fields like primary care, the work load has balloon such that even working part time= full time for most job with all the patient messages and documentation etc. My field, OB-GYN is very difficult to practice part time.

Also, I’m wondering why people think law is not family friendly? Just out of curiosity as my husband’s career as a government lawyer has been a fantastic balance and I find it hard to replicate in medicine. [/quote]
OP, it sounds like you are in private practice, but there are also government jobs in medicine that you could look into.

Your husband is a government lawyer, which is much different than private practice in a law firm. A law firm is a business, just as a private medical practice is a business.

You are right that law is more conducive to telework than medicine, for obvious reasons. However, in both businesses, it's about getting clients (patients) and billing hours/appointments/procedures to cover overhead and make a profit.

As an aside, from purely a business perspective, medicine is an "easier" business to start in the sense that you can collect payments from insurance companies, whereas in law, you have to be able to collect from the individual client or a business. That's why BigLaw typically makes so much more money than solos or family law, criminal law  -- because their clients are Big Businesses that have the ability to pay. With medicine, at least you know you can count on insurance to pay.

That's why your husband's job as a government lawyer seems comparatively easy-- he's not being squeezed to bill hours to cover overhead and partner profit.

You could look into VA or some government / non-profit work. Or work directly for a large hospital network or mega medical practice, where they can afford to float the insurance because it's spread out among so many providers.

Compared to lawyers, your malpractice insurance is high -- thanks, in part, to lawyers and lawsuits...[/quote]

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