Five Years Retired from Surgery

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A lot has happened in the last five years. Think about your life on July 22, 2017. What was true then that is no longer true for you?

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I doubt most of us in the summer of 2017 were anticipating a global lockdown just three short years later, and yet here we are, getting to the other side of it.

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The market continued its amazing bull run even despite that. And many other unexpected events happened to all of us, surely.

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Five Years Retired from Surgery

My Psyche

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My new mission

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My Finances

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