Learning to Code After Thirty: An Honest Timeline
Month by month, here's what it actually looked like to learn programming while working full-time in healthcare. No sugarcoating.
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A Career Change Story
From Crash Carts
to Keyboard
A blog about leaving healthcare for software development — the lessons that carried over, the ones I had to unlearn, and everything in between.
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What Night Shifts Taught Me About On-Call Rotations
Working the overnight in a hospital prepared me for on-call engineering in ways I didn't expect. Both require calm under pressure and good handoff skills.
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The Imposter Syndrome Is the Same Everywhere
I thought imposter syndrome was a healthcare thing. Turns out it followed me into tech — but now I know how to handle it.
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Debugging Is Just Differential Diagnosis
The diagnostic framework I used in the ER maps almost perfectly to tracking down bugs in code. Here's how clinical thinking makes you a better developer.
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Why I Left Healthcare (And Why I Don't Regret It)
After seven years in emergency medicine, I handed in my badge and picked up a keyboard. Here's the moment I knew it was time.
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