— Your Career Hub · Start Here
A great career decision isn't luck. It's clarity, options, and leverage...and you can build all three.
Medicine taught you medicine. It skipped the part that decides how your career actually feels: how to see the whole market, tell a real opportunity from a good-looking one, and reach the decision with options in hand instead of hope. Start wherever you are in your search, and we'll show you the whole path.
Short reads and quick videos on the questions that actually decide your career. Start with whatever's on your mind, and pull the thread from there.
Start with these four
The cornerstone reads — evergreen, and they apply wherever you are in your search.
Your Recruiter Is Very Nice. That's Not the Same as Being on Your Side
What a recruiter can and can't tell you — and who to ask instead.
Read → 📄You'd Never Buy a House This Way
You'd inspect a house before buying it. How to inspect a job before signing.
Read → 📄The Questions They're Quietly Hoping You're Too Polite to Ask
The questions that feel rude are the ones that predict whether you'll be happy.
Read → 📄Rarest Specialty in the Country, Least Leverage in the Room
Why the physicians with the most leverage often negotiate the worst.
Read →Watch · With your Physician Advocate
Nick answers the questions physicians actually ask.
Nick Racine spent 20 years recruiting for hospitals, and reviewed 400+ contracts, before he crossed to your side of the table. Now he answers the questions physicians actually ask, a minute at a time, across a growing library of topics.
Five moments, five doorways. Start with the one you're in.
Your First Job
You have an offer, or you're about to.
The first number you sign for follows you for a decade, and the culture that trained you taught you not to ask about any of it. Worth fixing before you sign.
Offers & Contracts
You're staring at a 40-page contract.
A handful of clauses do most of the damage, and the ones that cost the most usually don't have a dollar figure anywhere near them. Here's what to question before you sign.
Pay & Negotiation
Your pay is tied to something called wRVUs.
The math looks generous until you find the threshold. Learn to read a productivity model before it reads you.
Making a Move
You're thinking about leaving. Read this before you say a word.
The riskiest part of changing jobs isn't the new place. It's the ninety days, the paperwork, and the quiet mistakes that turn a clean exit into a mess. Leave on your own terms.
Market Reports
Coming soon.
Real compensation and demand data for your specialty and your region, so "competitive" finally has to mean a number. We're building it.
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