Barry

Are there other things that,

that I'd want to do.

I will say that for physicians, retirement tends to be much more difficult to retire because so much of their identity is tied up in being a physician, caring for patients, things like that.

And so I've known a number of colleagues because they

You're so busy doing your doc thing that oftentimes you have never had time to develop other interests.

And so and that's actually one of the things that provide a safety net that like for me, I mean, because I was a very devoted hospice physician and, you know, family doc and things like that.

Fortunately for me, I developed other interests.

And then for me, it was having someone that you could sort of pass the torch to or pass the baton to the younger generation.

And, uh, but then to be honest, also, uh, one of the hospice programs that I was a medical director for, um, I'm not going to mention specific names here, but the organization that the hospice was in, uh, decided that hospice didn't quite fit their mission.

And so they effectively sold their hospice off to somebody else.

So there was a part of my job where.

I was forced into retirement because there was there was no reason to have Barry as a medical as a hospice medical director.

Yeah.

So so that part, you know, like, you know, just disappeared.

And then the other one I just decided to I had a good colleague that I could pass the baton on.

And there were other things that lots of things interest me.

So my transition was good.

I still keep my.

my toe in as it were and I still even working with you know with Clarence and Stan and the rest of the crew with uh really with everybody um I still feel like I'm sort of not retired totally because you all especially Deandra and Aaron and Maddie and

Matthew and Sheridan really keep me on my toes to, you know, I want to play, you know, be playing an A game here with health chatter.