Below you'll find a list of all posts from May, 2019
As an ER doc, my first perception of any large financial decision is, “How many shifts will this cost me?” I have an idea of my average income per shift, and it helps me to reconcile major expenses or splurges by deciding whether it’s worth working those extra shifts. There’s an important caveat in how to frame any added shifts, …
Like a lot of overachievers who end up pursuing medicine, I entered college with a great deal of credit from a combination of Advanced Placement tests and courses taken for credit in night school at my local community college. Thanks to classes in physics, French and philosophy taken as a high school senior, I was exempted from a slew of …
I’ve been remiss in doing some basic housekeeping – I compiled a comprehensive financial checklist plucked a variety of sources, and ran through the checklist mentally, but it’s high time I take a deep dive and examine each of the items on that checklist. First item on my list: my disability insurance policy. I pay my premium annually, and I …
For the past several years, sea kayaking along the California coast has been my workout of choice. A precarious goat trail brought me down the face of a 300 foot cliff to a rock-strewn beach during my weekdays off, where as often as not I’d greet a couple of 50- and 60-something surfers I was friendly with who shared my …
A few weeks ago, my wife arranged a playdate for our son with a sweet kid in his grade who lives in our neighborhood. The kid’s father would pick them up by car after school to spend a couple of hours hanging out. Our son could barely contain himself when we gave him the news: “His dad drives a Tesla! …
The physician who blogs at ByWellDesign is an example of a specialist who cut back despite having a strong procedure-based component to her work. She was a decade into a typical nose-to-grindstone medical career until a cancer diagnosis forced her to reconsider her path. With wonderful clarity, her writing conveys how a cancer diagnosis immediately undermines assumptions about the future; …
Dr. Errin Weisman is a family medicine physician married to a farmer in rural Indiana, and a mother of three. She reached out to me via a friend in the close-knit community of physician bloggers. Errin’s experience with burnout in clinical medicine led her to a dark place where her “soul felt broken.” Working with a life coach, she dug …
Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Dr. Dahle, and make modest commissions when readers purchase his online “Fire Your Financial Advisor” course using my affiliate link. I have also appeared as a guest on his podcast. I received a free copy of his book to review, however, I do not stand to make income from any sales of his new …
In a recent binge of catching up on podcasts, I caught the charming trauma surgeon (yes, it’s the first time I’ve strung those words together) Dr. Nii Darko hosting one of the most vulnerable and memorable podcast interviews I’ve heard him conduct – with his wife, the equally impressive OB/GYN Dr. Renee Darko. I met the doctors Darko at FinCon …