About

I’m Alex. I practice anesthesiology, and I write Life After Call in what passes for my spare time.

This is a one-person project. I’m not a productivity influencer. I’m not a former physician. I’m not a consultant who happens to have an MD. I’m a working anesthesiologist who got tired of watching the rest of my life run on willpower and luck, and who started handing the boring parts to AI.

It turned out a lot of my colleagues were quietly trying the same thing, hitting the same dead ends, and not quite sure who to ask. So I started writing it down.

What I write about

Five things. Nothing else.

  1. The Efficient Home. Meal plans, household logistics, the chores you keep putting off.
  2. Career and Wealth, non-clinical. Real estate management, financial systems, side ventures.
  3. Parenting and Family. School schedules, kids’ projects, the post-call birthday party.
  4. Elevated Leisure. Travel planning, hobbies, and what off time is supposed to be for.
  5. AI Technical Insight. Agents, prompts, and workflows explained for physicians who do not have time to learn another tool.

What I don’t write about

Patient care. Charting. Clinical decision-making. Anything that touches the inside of the hospital.

That’s a hard rule, and it isn’t only about brand focus. Clinical AI is a serious topic with serious regulatory and liability considerations, and it deserves to be covered by people whose full job that is. My full job is being an anesthesiologist. This site is the rest of my life, and yours.

Why “Alex, MD” only

I run Life After Call under a first-name-only identity. It’s not a secret. My patients know me. My department knows me. But the public brand stays first-name plus credential, for a few reasons:

  • I want the writing to feel peer to peer, not “personal brand” with a capital P.
  • I’d rather the work be judged on whether it’s useful, not on which institution I happen to work at.
  • I want a clean line between what I do at the hospital and what I write on the internet.

If we meet in real life, I’ll happily tell you my last name. On the site, I’m just Alex.

How I work

A few principles I try to hold myself to.

  • I try the tools so you don’t have to. Most new AI tools are not worth your time. Some quietly are. I rotate through them and write up the ones that earned a permanent spot in my week.
  • I show the actual prompt and the actual output. Not theory. Not “imagine the possibilities.”
  • I write for tired people. If a workflow only works because you already have a fancy setup, I’ll say so. The default bar is “this works on the first try, on a normal account, for someone who just got off call.”
  • I will not run an affiliate hustle. If I name a tool, it’s because I actually use it. Any exception will be disclosed clearly and prominently.
  • I will not chase trends for traffic. If a new model launches and changes nothing practical for a physician’s week, I’m not writing about it.

Who this is for

Practicing physicians, mostly. Residents and fellows too. Anybody whose life has a call schedule, a clinic day, or a hospital pager in it.

You do not need to be technical. You do not need to be early to AI. You do not need to be using any tool right now. You just need to be willing to try one workflow and see if it gives you back twenty minutes.

Who this isn’t for

If you came here looking for clinical AI coverage, this isn’t the site for you, and I mean that without judgment. There are excellent writers in that space.

If you came here for hot takes on AI policy, AI safety debates, or AGI timelines, also not the site. I’m trying to help you get your weekend back.

Get in touch

You can reach me at [email protected]. I read everything, even if I can’t reply to all of it.

The best posts on this site are going to come from real questions from real physicians. If you’ve been trying to figure out a workflow and getting stuck, tell me. I’ll probably write about it.

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.