Dr. Targhee Øverås had been an emergency medicine attending for 11 years when she moved to Norway. Her husband is Norwegian, and they'd talked about making the move for years. They finally decided to go in April 2023. By July, they'd sold their house in Lake Tahoe,...
There’s a kind of burnout only psychiatrists truly know. The kind that comes from holding space for suffering—while being stuck in systems that don’t hold space for you. Maybe you’re in academia or corporate medicine, staring down mandatory “resilience training...
When we lived in Boston, summer felt like eight weekends. Every one filled up fast with weddings, family visits, vacations, and an urgent need to enjoy the outdoors before school started and the cold returned. Sometimes, it felt like we were cramming our whole life...
Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by Global Medical Staffing, a locum tenens agency with a worldwide reach that places U.S. doctors in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Guam, Saipan, the Caribbean, and the United States—and regularly expands into new countries....
When we moved to Portugal in August 2020, I knew I wouldn’t be able to practice medicine locally anytime soon. The only Portuguese word I knew when I arrived was obrigada (thank you). And the Duolingo lessons I’d been doing on the Boston T? Turns out they were...
Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by Origin Medical, a New Zealand–based medical recruitment agency. For over a decade, they’ve helped U.S.-trained physicians and their families make the move, supporting everything from medical council registration to immigration...
Ireland is one of those countries that comes up in our community again and again. People love the idea of it. But it’s been surprisingly hard to find doctors who’ve actually moved there and are willing to share what it’s really like once you arrive. So when I met Dr....
You might remember Dr. Andrea DeMets. Back in October 2024, I interviewed this Arizona pediatrician right after she moved to the Netherlands 🇳🇱 with her husband and three kids for a year-long sabbatical. At the time, she was in the we actually did it phase. Now? She’s...
My family and I moved to London for 6 months in 2020 for my husband's rotational position. We arrived in February of that year with a 6-week-old baby. I had negotiated a 9-month unpaid maternity leave with my job, and we had grand plans for travel and adventure. ...
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