4/11/2024 Retirement is a stranger, an unknown until reality allows you to define it in your own terms. It is not a continuum of the professional persona. For some it is a paradise found, for others, an identity lost.
2/12/2024 I commend the King for his transparency about his health—but he could do even more.
1/15/2024 Dr. Howard Goldstein reflects on how strange it is to refer to yourself as a doctor in the past tense upon retirement.
12/17/2023 Merriam-Webster's 2023 Word of the Year is "authentic.” Here Dr. Howard Goldstein offers up suggestions for the medical word of the year.
11/30/2023 After managing to avoid COVID-19 for 1,313 days, I finally saw those two little red lines on a test. Looking back at the journey we’ve been on with the pandemic, I think you might be surprised how much you’ve already forgotten.
9/28/2023 Dr. Howard Goldstein challenged doctors in his Virtual Retirement Lounge group to come up with keynote addresses to the class of 2023.
8/22/2023 What if doctors were allowed tipping terminals in their offices? A chalkboard menu of available goods and services could be wall-mounted in the waiting room, prices listed in bold cursive and brilliant colour, modified with every PSA negotiation.
7/10/2023 My doctor began by stating the purpose of the call—to review my MRI report. I advised that I'd already read the report in MyChart and had a copy in front of me for our collective review. “That shouldn’t happen,” he said. I couldn’t have agreed more.
5/31/2023 Of cottages, pancreatic cancer and a strange little "phone booth" in the Ontario wilderness.
5/28/2023 My barber of more than 40 years asked me whether I missed being a doctor. After a few years in retirement, only now do I feel the loss of what medical practice has meant to me for so long.
3/7/2023 Three docs, three bagels, three stories of going from doctor to patient in one fell swoop.
2/16/2023 I spoke with my cousin, now 85, about his decades as a pharmaceutical sales rep—known in his day as a 'detail man'—and about how the industry is barely recognizable today.
