What happens when a vocation no longer organizes the day? In Physicians Unchained, Dike Drummond turns toward the personal side of retirement from medicine: the routines, relationships, and sense of purpose that a career can hold together.
The author presents the book as a guide to releasing the full-time doctor role and exploring life after practice. Its stated emphasis is the human transition rather than a retirement portfolio. Readers considering this change may recognize the central question: how do you make room for parts of yourself that work has kept waiting?
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