Life beyond clinical medicine

Introduction transcript

You worked bloody hard to become a doctor. That does not mean that every dollar you earn for the rest of your life has to come from seeing patients.

I'm Sonny Saggar. I spent 25 years, over 25 years, in emergency medicine. I also built businesses. I worked in commercial real estate and I wrote books.

My own departure from clinical medicine involved an indictment, a guilty plea and prison.

Starting again has given me plenty of questions about work, identity and what comes next.

That's why I'm making The Exit Interview. I'll be talking with doctors who have built working lives beyond clinical medicine. Some have left completely, others still practice and have just added something else on the side. I say "on the side." That, that something else might actually pay more.

We ask practical questions. What did you try? Who first paid you? What did it cost? What failed? And what would you do differently?

There will also be shorter episodes where I work through an idea or a question myself.

You do not have to want to leave medicine to follow this. Wanting more options is enough. This is The Exit Interview with Sonny Saggar. Honest conversations about earning a living beyond clinical medicine.

What would you like to do beyond clinical medicine?