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Recently, I celebrated Maui Independence Day. I do this every so often, and even change my office message to let patients know my office is closed in honor of said holiday.
Of course, the week afterward I usually get questions about it. As far as I know there is no such holiday. In the 1980s, for various bizarre reasons, my father was trying to think of a fictitious holiday that a Maui resort would celebrate, and came up with this one. Since then, it’s been a family joke – until about 10 years ago, when I officially adopted it into my practice.
Maui Independence Day is now the official holiday of my desert practice. It’s whenever I decide to close the practice on a nonholiday. Recently, for example, my secretary was on vacation and my assistant and I were swamped. Since we only had two patients on the schedule for Friday, I moved them to the next week and closed the office for a 3-day weekend.
Being solo gives me the freedom to do this on occasion. I have no partners to disagree with me. After years in practice, there are days when I’m willing to trade time for dollars and try to regain some sanity.
Maui Independence Day is never anything like "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off." I think the most exciting thing I ever did on it was take my kids to a water park. This past one I spent catching up on paperwork and dictations, trying to fix computer issues, and taking my family out to dinner. But it gives you a few extra hours to catch up on things that would otherwise be crammed into the limited time of a workday, helping you decompress.
Personally, I think everyone should celebrate Maui Independence Day here and there. It helps keep some sanity in an often insane job.
Dr. Block has a solo neurology private practice in Scottsdale, Ariz. E-mail him at [email protected].
Recently, I celebrated Maui Independence Day. I do this every so often, and even change my office message to let patients know my office is closed in honor of said holiday.
Of course, the week afterward I usually get questions about it. As far as I know there is no such holiday. In the 1980s, for various bizarre reasons, my father was trying to think of a fictitious holiday that a Maui resort would celebrate, and came up with this one. Since then, it’s been a family joke – until about 10 years ago, when I officially adopted it into my practice.
Maui Independence Day is now the official holiday of my desert practice. It’s whenever I decide to close the practice on a nonholiday. Recently, for example, my secretary was on vacation and my assistant and I were swamped. Since we only had two patients on the schedule for Friday, I moved them to the next week and closed the office for a 3-day weekend.
Being solo gives me the freedom to do this on occasion. I have no partners to disagree with me. After years in practice, there are days when I’m willing to trade time for dollars and try to regain some sanity.
Maui Independence Day is never anything like "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off." I think the most exciting thing I ever did on it was take my kids to a water park. This past one I spent catching up on paperwork and dictations, trying to fix computer issues, and taking my family out to dinner. But it gives you a few extra hours to catch up on things that would otherwise be crammed into the limited time of a workday, helping you decompress.
Personally, I think everyone should celebrate Maui Independence Day here and there. It helps keep some sanity in an often insane job.
Dr. Block has a solo neurology private practice in Scottsdale, Ariz. E-mail him at [email protected].
Recently, I celebrated Maui Independence Day. I do this every so often, and even change my office message to let patients know my office is closed in honor of said holiday.
Of course, the week afterward I usually get questions about it. As far as I know there is no such holiday. In the 1980s, for various bizarre reasons, my father was trying to think of a fictitious holiday that a Maui resort would celebrate, and came up with this one. Since then, it’s been a family joke – until about 10 years ago, when I officially adopted it into my practice.
Maui Independence Day is now the official holiday of my desert practice. It’s whenever I decide to close the practice on a nonholiday. Recently, for example, my secretary was on vacation and my assistant and I were swamped. Since we only had two patients on the schedule for Friday, I moved them to the next week and closed the office for a 3-day weekend.
Being solo gives me the freedom to do this on occasion. I have no partners to disagree with me. After years in practice, there are days when I’m willing to trade time for dollars and try to regain some sanity.
Maui Independence Day is never anything like "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off." I think the most exciting thing I ever did on it was take my kids to a water park. This past one I spent catching up on paperwork and dictations, trying to fix computer issues, and taking my family out to dinner. But it gives you a few extra hours to catch up on things that would otherwise be crammed into the limited time of a workday, helping you decompress.
Personally, I think everyone should celebrate Maui Independence Day here and there. It helps keep some sanity in an often insane job.
Dr. Block has a solo neurology private practice in Scottsdale, Ariz. E-mail him at [email protected].
