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Six Years in Portugal: When Does Living Abroad Feel Like Home?
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...
7 Lessons We’ve Learned From Physicians Who Moved Abroad
When we started Hippocratic Adventures, we assumed every physician's move-abroad story would be completely different. Different countries. Different specialties. Different families. Different reasons for leaving. And in many ways, they are. But after six years, more...
Physician Salary Abroad: Why Physicians Move Even When They Earn Less
U.S. physicians are among the highest-paid doctors in the world. So why do so many leave? If salary were the only thing that mattered, very few doctors would move abroad. And yet every year, physicians pack up their lives and head to Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, the UK, Portugal, and beyond. Often for less money.
The 7 Steps to Getting Licensed to Practice Medicine in Portugal
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...
What It’s Really Like to Practice Medicine in Ireland as a US Family Doctor
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....
Physician Sabbatical in the Netherlands: What No One Tells You About Coming Back
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...
From Boston to Portugal: How We Left the Default Path in Medicine
What if the life you're building... isn't actually the one you want? We were about to buy a house in Boston. Great on paper, long commute, the "right" next step, you know the one. But something felt off, the kind of quiet unease that's easy to ignore when everything...
Doctors CAN Pivot: How One Internist Built a New Career in Switzerland
Think leaving clinical medicine feels impossible? Think again. 💥 Meet Dr. Jill Monteiro — an American internist who, in 2019, looked at her primary care job in Utah (mountain views + skiing every Wednesday) and said, “Nope. I’m out.” She traded U.S. attending life for...
This Pediatrician Moved to France. Here’s how she made it work.
BREAKING NEWS: Your medical degree is NOT a life sentence. 🚨 Let me introduce you to the most badass career pivot you've ever imagined. Meet Dr. Carrie Reynolds—a pediatric gastroenterologist who looked at the traditional medical career and said, "NOPE." Instead, she...
How a Trauma Surgeon Forged Her Path to Spain
When you bring up the idea of moving abroad, do your mentors and colleagues: Give you the side eye? Say “What? You can’t do that!” Just think you’re plain weird Do you end up wondering, “What AM I doing?” Then you’ve got to watch our latest vlog, with Dr....
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