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Every post fits into one of five pillars: The Efficient Home, Career and Wealth (non-clinical), Parenting and Family, Elevated Leisure, and AI Technical Insight.
Featured
- What call pay, locums rates, and admin stipends actually pay in 2025
- The contract they gave you 72 hours to sign
- Connecting AI to your real life
- What you should consider not pasting
- Where your AI chats actually go
- The six prompts I keep saved
- Becoming a prompt master: the one AI skill that actually compounds
- Welcome to Life After Call: what this is, who it’s for, and why I’m writing it
Strictly non-clinical. Nothing on this site is medical advice. I do not post about patient care.
Featured
June 25, 2026
What call pay, locums rates, and admin stipends actually pay in 2025, and how to get numbers you can defend
Getting the numbers is easy now. Getting numbers you can say out loud in a negotiation is the real work. Here is the method, and all the data.
June 16, 2026
The contract they gave you 72 hours to sign
We skim the documents that quietly shape our lives, especially the ones we are told are boilerplate. How to use AI to actually understand a contract, policy, or agreement: the content, the risks, the exposures, the nuances, the changes worth asking for, and what to raise with your attorney, advisor, or adjuster.
June 9, 2026
Connecting AI to your real life
Memory keeps your past conversations in the room. Connectors bring in the rest of your life. What they are, why they are usually secure and easy to turn on, a full map of what you can connect, and the ones I actually use.
May 25, 2026
Becoming a prompt master: the one AI skill that actually compounds
The four-part anatomy of a good prompt, two frameworks worth knowing, and the one shortcut that makes all of it accessible even when you are running on empty.
May 18, 2026
Where to start with AI when you're a busy physician
A practicing physician walks through the first thirty minutes of getting useful work out of AI. Real tools, real prompts, one named failure, and what to do about privacy.
May 18, 2026
Welcome to Life After Call: what this is, who it's for, and why I'm writing it
A practicing physician's intro to using AI for the non-clinical parts of life. Why I started this site, what I've actually built and broken with AI, and the conversation I want to start.
All posts
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June 26, 2026
You have the number. Here is the conversation.
The data was the easy part. Asking for it is where most of us freeze. Here is the method, and the line AI cannot cross.
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June 24, 2026
How I read three contractor bids the way I read an EKG
This week's negotiation method, applied to a real deal: three contractor bids for the same job. Read them top to bottom, not just the number at the end.
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June 23, 2026
How I negotiate with the help of AI, part 2: running it
Part 2 of the negotiation week. Build the reusable assistant, pull the real numbers, send the email. And the honest answer on whether to let AI run the back-and-forth without you.
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June 22, 2026
How I negotiate with the help of AI, part 1: setting it up
Part 1 of a special-edition week on negotiating with the help of AI. The first three steps: name what you actually need, find who can deal, and get to a real person before the conversation starts.
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June 21, 2026
How I'm setting my dad up with AI this Father's Day
Forgot Father's Day? A paid AI account is a no-shipping, five-minute gift that gives him his evenings back. How to gift Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini (one of them is free), with two beginner training links for each.
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June 4, 2026
What you should consider not pasting
The practical half: how to decide what is actually safe to put into a consumer AI tool, what to keep out entirely, and a simple rule of thumb that travels with you.
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June 2, 2026
Where your AI chats actually go
A personal AI account is not an enterprise account. Where your words actually end up once you type them into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, and the one rule that decides what is safe to provide.
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May 28, 2026
The six prompts I keep saved
Six copy-paste prompt templates for the tasks physicians repeat most: planning the week, making decisions, staying current with the literature, modeling a rental, starting the morning, and handling dinner around the call schedule.