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If this is your first time on the site, this page is the shortcut.

If you have 60 seconds

Read the welcome post. It explains what Life After Call is, who it’s for, and what I’m doing here.

If you have 10 minutes

Read the welcome post, then pick one pillar that matches the part of your life that’s bugging you most.

  • The Efficient Home if your kitchen, calendar, or household is the chaos.
  • Career and Wealth (non-clinical) if it’s the rental, the side venture, or the money.
  • Parenting and Family if it’s the kids, school, or the family logistics.
  • Elevated Leisure if you keep skipping vacations because planning feels like work.
  • AI Technical Insight if you want to understand what’s happening under the hood.

If you’re brand new to AI

You’re not behind. You’re busy. This is the single most common worry I hear from colleagues, and it’s almost never true in practice.

Three pieces of advice before you read anything else:

  1. Pick one tool and stick with it for two weeks. Don’t shop. Either ChatGPT or Claude is a fine starting point. Both are free to try.
  2. Pick one task that’s not clinical and not life-or-death. A meal plan. A trip outline. A draft of an annoying email. That’s your test case.
  3. Write more in the prompt than feels natural. A four-sentence prompt beats a four-word prompt almost every time.

That’s the entire on-ramp. The rest is just repetition.

The tools I personally use

Short list, on purpose.

  • Claude for longer writing and document work
  • ChatGPT for quick lookups, brainstorming, and image generation
  • Gemini for help inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Gmail
  • NotebookLM for asking questions of a stack of PDFs or articles

You do not need all four. Most physicians I know do fine with one.

A few of the questions I keep getting

Each of these will get its own post. Quick answers below.

“Where do I even start?” Pick one annoying non-clinical task this week. Hand it to one tool. Don’t try to learn AI. Try to finish that one task faster.

“Is it safe?” For non-clinical, non-PHI tasks, yes, for most major tools. Turn off training on your data in the settings if you want extra privacy. Do not put patient information into a consumer AI tool. Ever.

“I tried it and it was bad.” Usually the prompt was too short, the model was too old, or the task was a bad fit. The fix is almost always a better prompt, not a better tool.

“Will it make me lazy or dumb?” Depends entirely on how you use it. If it’s replacing thinking, yes. If it’s replacing typing while you do more thinking, no.

“Am I behind?” You’re not behind. You’re busy.

How to follow

Whichever you already check.

Strictly non-clinical. Nothing on this site is medical advice. I do not post about patient care.

Strictly non-clinical. Nothing on this site is medical advice. I do not post about patient care.