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I wrote the following post a year and a half ago while brainstorming my next steps. Part 1 is what I thought would happen. Part 2, the companion post, will describe what actually occurred. It’s been a mere 15 years since graduating residency, and by all accounts I should be in the prime of my career.  An auspicious new gray …

I’m in the midst of a blogging sabbatical – so why am I coming off the bench to write this article? WCI is a savvy entrepreneur, and real estate is a sexy topic. I had increased my asset allocation to real estate and invested in several syndicates shortly before the pandemic, and continue to enjoy reading up on the topic. …

Precious few times in a life – so few you can recount them with great specificity –  you manage to catch every green light. Maybe you’ve been paying attention to traffic trends, counting the lapse in time between lights, noting the details that primed you to alter your speed just so, in a manner where – if you ever caught …

It has been one of life’s great pleasures blogging for you, dear reader, over the past five plus years. It feels like we’ve grown up together. When I started out, I was a zealous convert waxing poetic about the virtues of managing your own portfolio and enthusiastically sharing financial literacy lessons I’d never learned in residency. I wanted so deeply …

As an emergency medicine resident in 2002, I arranged a 6 week rotation through the Nairobi Hospital, which is where the who’s who of Kenya receive their care – presidents, expats, business people, tribal chiefs. My mentor during my time there was an American-born cardiologist, the private physician to then president-for-life Daniel Arap Toirotitch arap Moi. It was a formative …

I’ve accepted a position outside of clinical medicine. It represents an opportunity to continue to support the community health system I’ve been a part of to continue to ensure it’s viability for the future, at the hospital where both my kids were born. A little like going from player to coach while supporting the same team enterprise. Making this decision …

Physician finance bloggers seem to be dominated by shift-based specialties (anesthesia and emergency medicine come to mind), so it’s nice when a different specialist weighs in. It would be impressive enough that Dr. Brent Lacey’s career as a gastroenterologist requires him to handle Texan-sized colonoscopies, but there’s more – he’s also a physician finance blogger at the Scope of Practice …

The best part of writing a physician finance blog is the delightful assortment of true-to-their-internal compass folks you pick up as friends along the way. I feel fortunate to count Dr. Kristina Dervaitis, a Canadian OB/GYN, among the menagerie of misfit docs who make life more interesting as they redeem our profession in my eyes. I’ve invited her to share …

[Disclosure: If you register for WCI CON 22 using this link, I make a modest commission at no cost to you.] Enrollment has begun for the upcoming Physician Wellness and Financial Literacy Conference 2022, offered every 1-2 years by the White Coat Investor. You have 5 days to score early bird pricing on in-person attendance. I was a speaker at …