The Value of Traveling Medicine

After many years of hard work and preparation, I finally have a chance to do what I have wanted since starting down the road of Medicine--innovate in Primary Care.  And a long road it has been!

Due to some unavoidable circumstances around physician staffing, my current work with Iora Health has offered me a chance to practice Primary care in our first open clinic, the Culinary Extra Clinic in Las Vegas, Nevada.  As some of you may know, I currently consider Boston my home, a vexing situation.  What we have worked out (we being my wife and my company), is for me to travel to and from Las Vegas weekly,  spending 3-4 days practicing primary care in our brand new and frankly amazing practice.  By Boston academic standards, this actually has me at full time (8 "sessions" per week, where one "session" is one half-day).  The road is long, the travel tiring, and the time away from my wife unbearable.  However, I have learned something about travelling to a single to location to work that my yo…