Collection No. 05

Two Calendars

Love, friendship and family when medicine shares the house.

5 pieces in preparation

From the editors

A medical career is never only the doctor’s. Partners rearrange their lives around rotas, friends learn not to count on weekends, and parents carry expectations that were set long before the first exam.

Two Calendars is about the people on the other side of the schedule, and about the doctors trying to keep faith with them. It is written from experience, without scripts, and with respect for everyone in the room.

In this collection

In preparationMarriage
Long distance during residency
Two cities, two rotas and one shared calendar. Couples on what kept them close, and what nearly did not.
In preparationMarriage
When both of you are doctors
Two rotas, two sets of exams and one household. Couples on whose career goes first, and how they decided.
In preparationDating
Dating when your evenings belong to the hospital
Cancelled plans, odd hours and the question of whether to date inside medicine. Doctors on what has actually worked.
In preparationFriendship
The friends who knew you before medicine
They do not care about your rank or your rota. That is exactly why they matter.
In preparationFamily
The conversation with your parents about taking a year out
Two doctors, two families, two very different conversations about stepping off the expected path.