Blogger Graveyard

They were bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. They had that certain sparkle in the eyes. They boldly set out to revolutionize physician financial literacy.

Then they disappeared.

For posterity, let us record and honor the fallen blogs among us.

To make it into the afterlife, bloggers had to show no new posts for >3 months or take their site down completely. This means some prominent conference speakers (even friends) made it to the dead blog list...because they stopped posting.

1. 1099 MD is a radiation oncologist with locums experience who writes exclusively for the needs of docs who are independent contractors.
2. A Doctor's Worth is written by a pediatrician, married to a urologist, who has written about the unique needs of both women and physicians in developing financial literacy.
3. A Good Life MD is a radiation oncologist blogging on finance as well as the deeper question of what constitutes a "good life," a guiding philosophy for heart and wallet.
4. Big Family Small World is a Canadian ER doc and his wife who sell the house, quit work, and take their four sons backpacking around the world. How did they pull it off financially? That question plus my vicarious excitement place Dr. Matt Poyner and family on this list.
5. By Well Design is an anesthesiologist whose life-changing cancer diagnosis helped her completely reorient from burnout to minimalism, financial literacy and balance with family at the center instead of the periphery. A gifted writer who fell back in love with medicine by doing less of it.
6. Dads Dollars Debts began as a California-based cardiologist blogging on finance before he lost his home in the Tubbs Fire. He's rebuilding a life and home from the ashes, allowing us to vicariously imagine if we'd handle such a crisis with comparable grace.
7. Dads Making Cents is a team effort between an emergency physician/MBA and his faithful attorney sidekick (or vice versa) deep diving topics from finance to real estate.
8. Delayed Earner is a pulmonary/critical care fellow hacking his finances during training with moonlighting gigs.
9. Doctor in Debt's story begins mid-career, 7 years out of residency and $1,000,000 in debt from educational loans and a money pit doctor house.
10. Doctor of Finance MD  Hatton1 is an OB/GYN with a ubiquitous presence in physician finance fora and blogs. She's in the enviable position of approaching finance as a retiring physician with a high net worth.
11. Doctors on Debt is a dual doctor couple digging their way out of student debt while sharing lessons and victories. They informed me they aren't MDs/DOs; I'm giving them a pass for honesty.
12. Dr. Networth is another Canuck from Ontario with a Boglehead investing philosophy and real estate dabbling tendencies. Great post on grading your financial performance.
13. Dr. Scrilla is a "broke ass resident" with a spouse, kid, and a negative $380k net worth. He's saving 25% of his salary as a resident. Well done, young grasshopper.
14. Dr. Wise Money was a radiology resident and single mom who devised innovative hacks to finance her medical education. Her articles are worth learning from, even as her unexpected death left us wanting more.
15. Fifteen Minute Financial Fitness is a surgical pathologist who recently emerged from the dark to offer brief actionable posts to bring you closer to FI.
16. Financially Free MD is part of a Canadian dual physician household motivated to share his financial knowledge and, sweetly, to leave a blueprint for his family in case of his untimely demise. Great origin story on assessing risk tolerance.
17. First Habit is an academic radiologist whose secret sauce for FI is cultivating positive habits (and ditching the liabilities) to pave the way to financial success.
18. Foreign Born MD is an internist living in Oregon who took a frugal road to the American dream. She's also a female primary breadwinner and IMG.
19. Happy Philosopher is a job-sharing radiologist whose struggles with burnout, mindfulness and simplicity attract a crowd beyond medicine.
20. Immigrant Finances is a Nigerian-born pediatrician based out of Arkansas with a calling to help others decipher personal finance.
21. Keeping Up With The Darkos is a FI-oriented blog run by the social media powerhouse Drs. Darko documenting their victory against $800k in debt. (The male Dr. D, a trauma surgeon, continues to host the popular Docs Outside The Box podcast.)
22. Life Of FI MD is an unabashed evangelist for getting physicians to adopt FI as a central goal to support a broader life philosophy of balance.
23. Live Free MD is a sports medicine doc who dug out from under $400k of debt. He lives lean but intentionally with laser-focus on his goal of early FI.
24. Med School Financial is a preventive medicine doc's attempt to help you avoid financial mistakes through early intervention.
25. Military Millions is co-written by an active service physician and is dedicated to helping our men and women in uniform master their finances.
26. My Curiosity Lab is a radiologist married to a pediatrician whose intellect and endearing candor are notable. Trying to save for and figure out his Second Act.
27. Nomads With A Vision is an interventional radiologist who leveraged aggressive savings and a high earn, low burn lifestyle to achieve early financial independence and take his family traveling. What's possible when you do everything right from the start.
28. Nisha Mehta MD is a radiologist who blogs and speaks on physician wellness and work-life balance.
29. OB Doctor Mom left medicine after a health scare. She explores financial and ethical dimensions of early retirement for physicians, dissecting what we owe and to whom.
30. Pediatrician Finds Financial Independence chronicles a new dad with a kid in a HCOL area slaying debt to achieve FI over 15 years.
31. Physician REI is a real-estate oriented blog with a physician angle, helping docs with deep pockets learn to landlord.
32. Physician, Wealth Thyself emerged in January 2018 committed to "demystifying wealth creation, post by post."
33. Retire Early MD is a 30-something anesthesiologist chronicling his journey to financial freedom.
34. Side Hustle Scrubs is an east coast EM doc adopting a "see hustle, do hustle, teach hustle" approach to physician side gigs and nontraditional career opportunities. I won't lie - when he quit blogging, it broke my heart.
35. Some Random Guy Online is an emergency physician in San Francisco who killed $400k of debt and is aiming for FI despite his geography. My vote for best blogger name ever.
36. Son Of A Doctor is actually plural! A  maternal-fetal medicine OB married to an attorney/investment advisor, they cover what you need to know to thrive financially.
37. Stealth Wealth MD is a radiologist and FIRE enthusiast who recently joined the fray. I'm looking forward to his contributions to the dialogue.
38. 39.6 is a radiation oncologist (and super snazzy dresser) who, as half of a dual physician household, has optimized real estate as a fast track to financial independence.
39. The Boss MD is an internist married to a pediatrician who espouses FIRN: Financial Independence Retire Never.
40. Thrifty Surgeon is another newcomer, a DO about to start fellowship who is married with 3 kids. You'll find him cutting his own hair or your appendix depending on the day.
41. Time For Money MD examines the trade-off that turns most docs on to becoming finance geeks, sharing evidence-based strategies to determine your ever-elusive balance point.
42. Wall Street Physician is a precocious radiation oncology resident(!) whose past as a trader at an investment bank lends a uniquely authoritative perspective on finance. What took the rest of us years, he and Future Proof MD pulled off as residents!