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A sample Sunday.
Written for one reader.
This is what an After Rounds drop actually looks like — not a generic newsletter, but a Sunday letter written to one specific reader, in one specific city, in one specific week of her assignment.
After Rounds.
Issue No. 01 · Sunday May 4, 2026
For Maya
ICU · NYU Langone · Week 3 of 13
Maya — I know last Tuesday was hard. I have a Wednesday for you, and a Saturday morning ritual you’re going to want.
— Zaha
§ I.
This week in the city
3 min read
Wednesday after eight, with the wine list.
Your Wednesday is open. Your Tuesday was the kind of Tuesday a glass of natural wine and one good plate of pasta will fix. The Four Horsemen in Williamsburg, walk-in friendly after 8pm, candlelit, the bartender is named Mira and will guess what you want if you tell her how your week was. Order the bucatini with cured egg yolk. The pinot from Etna, not the Loire.
Member perk
Show your LocateLuxe profile at the bar. Mira knows.
§ II.
Ask the expert
5 min read
“How do I make my Sunday count when I have to be on the floor at 6:45am Monday?”
— from Caroline R., ICU travel, Brooklyn
Sarah Chen, RN-BSN — six years night-float at Mount Sinai — answers: “Don’t try to make Sunday count. Try to make Sunday quiet. The shift before a stretch is when sleep banking happens. Move your fun to Saturday night, your big meal to Saturday afternoon, and let Sunday be a long walk, a long bath, and lights out by 9:30. Counterintuitive, but the Mondays I crashed were the Sundays I tried to wring something out of.”
§ III.
Self care, seriously
2 min read
Heat. Then cold. Then nothing.
Your back has been on its feet for 36 hours this week. Book the 7pm slot at Aire Ancient Baths in Tribeca on Wednesday — the candlelit thermal circuit, 90 minutes, ends with a hot stone massage you didn’t know you needed. Empties out after 8pm. Members get the second hour at $30, not $80.
§ IV.
Your money, clearly
4 min read
Travel tax: the part nobody tells you.
You’re four weeks from the end of this assignment. Your stipend is $1,800/wk untaxed — but only if your tax home is intact. Three things to check before week 13:
- Have you spent a night at your declared tax home in the last 12 months? IRS expects yes.
- Are you paying duplicated rent or contributing to your tax-home household? Document it.
- Are you tracking the mileage on your Sunday drives back to base? At 67¢/mile, that’s real money.
Tool
Travel-tax calculator → in your member dashboard
§ V.
Specialty spotlight · ICU
3 min read
ICU travel rates hit a Q1 peak.
Memorial Sloan Kettering posted week-of starts at $4,400/wk for ICU last Wednesday — gone in 90 minutes. Mount Sinai is opening a 12-bed CTICU and quietly recruiting. Watch the LocateLuxe directory all week; we tag the openings within 4 hours of post.
If you’re thinking about your next assignment in NYC, this is the window.
§ VI.
The off-week
2 min read
A Saturday-morning ritual.
Joe Coffee in NoLita at 7am. Walk to Central Park, north loop, on the bridle path before the tourists arrive. 4.2 miles, 50 minutes at your pace, mostly tree cover. The Met opens at 10. Be there by 10:05 and the European wing is empty. By 11 it isn’t.
That’s your Sunday, Maya. Reply to this email if you want me to book the Aire slot for you.
— Z.
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