- Another Second Opinion is an emergency physician in SoCal leavening his financial lessons with humor as he prepares you to spend more time away from work.
- Be Three is an MD/MBA in southern California who writes about her journey toward becoming empowered, balanced, and authentically herself. She's posted on loans, loving Vanguard, and lifestyle creep. Think badass female doctor living the lyrics to Independent Women by Destiny's Child. HBO series waiting to happen.
- Ben White was put on my radar by the White Coat Investor. A Texan MD with expertise and authorship of a book on med school loan repayment.
- B.C. Krygowski is the palliative care half of a dual doc couple who just took a massive pay cut to live higher quality lives. Could her experiment create a tipping point for others?
- Canucks Money (formerly Dr. Moneyblog) is a closet finance geek and half of a dual-physician couple whose life of frugality and minimalism have yielded a maximalist net worth >$8 million loonies. She thought she'd lose fans with the website change. She thought wrong.
- Carpe Diem MD is a dual physician household where traumatic injury forced one to make a career pivot. A cautionary tale about both the need for disability insurance and the importance of living out your values today. Big fans of short-term rental income.
- Crispy Doc that's me! I'm an EM doc in LA whose financial literacy conversion experience took me from burnt out to FIRE'd up. I help newbies start strong, and crusty vets get out of ruts to find that lost mojo.
- Debt Free Doctor is a dental surgeon who found himself fresh out of residency with a wife, 2 month old son, $300k in the hole when the job offer he'd counted on fell through. He dug himself out of debt, then augmented his wealth through real estate. A generous blogger paying it forward through his writing.
- Digital Nomad Physician (formerly A Sustainable Medical Career) Dr. Mo is a family practice trained urgent care doc practicing telemedicine, which he plans to continue from Spain. Why didn't I think of that?
- DiverseFI Doc G is a beyond FI / ex-concierge / ex-hospice director / ex-nursing home doc. He's a workaholic looking to smell more roses as he cuts back.
- DividendStrategy.ca is how the Canadian ER doc traveling the world with his family (see Big Family Small World, above) reached financial independence. He lays out his DIY recipe for a Dogs of the DOW strategy adapted for Canadian investors (like U.S. investing, only more polite?).
- Doc Of All Tradez is an anesthesiologist and self-proclaimed burnout survivor looking to help others avoid similar pitfalls.
- Doc To Disco was burnt out as hell and not going to take it any more when she left medicine after the epiphany that she'd hit her FIRE number if only she sold her HCOL home. Now living in Barbados and the US, she's a JL Collins fan who gave her blog to a disco soundtrack! One of a kind.
- Doctored Money is the brainchild of a pediatric neurologist and a pediatrician dedicated to improving physician financial literacy among medical students and newbie attendings.
- Doctor Finances is the brainchild of a physician whose enthusiasm for discussing finance was so great that his less interested family and friends told him he ought to go write a blog, and he did just that.
- Dr. Breathe Easy Finance is a Pittsburgh-based pulmonologist whose path took him from Nigeria to Canada to the Caribbean (Netherlands Antilles) to the U.S., lending a fresh perspective to financial optimization for physicians.
- Dr. FIREfly is a female Canadian resident physician who represents a hybrid of finance geek and philosophy buff. A delightful example of how a physician can spend deliberately from the start of her career and slay educational debt tactically as she commences her investing career.
- Dr. McFrugal is an anesthesiologist, new dad, vegetarian, Tesla driver and travel hacker with a touch of Hollywood lifestyle.
- Dr. PayItBack is an anesthesiologist paying it forward by taking readers on his journey back to zero. He says he plans to pay off $200k+ debt in two years following his pain fellowship. I say: Come on baby, make it hurt so good.
- Efficient Frontier is financial guru Dr. Bill Bernstein's blog from 1996-2012. The content is superb, even if the theme suggests it was written in cuneiform on a Commodore 64. I'm listing it as still active because I've learned so much from reading it.
- Female Money Doctor is a UK-based physician whose experience with a failed relationship led her to master her finances, and set out to help other women do the same.
- The Finance Twins are evidence the American dream is alive and well. The twin sons of a widow from Colombia end up at Harvard (MBA) and the Mayo Clinic (Medicine), and use their elite education to promote financial literacy.
- Financial Success MD (formerly Dr. Cory S. Fawcett) follows the "repurposed" surgeon and personal finance author lecturing across the country to awaken physicians to financially responsible living.
- Future Proof MD is an (almost) interventional radiologist who first studied and blogged on personal finance as a resident, confirming my bias that radiologists really are savvier than the rest of us.
- Frugal Physician is a primary care physician and married mother who stopped drowning in debt thanks to lifestyle deflation (incredibly hard to pull off) and born-again frugality.
- Generational Wealth MD is a radiologist and mother of two who laid out her blogging shingle a decade out of training in 2020 with a goal of FIRE via real estate investment. Will she succeed in leaving the kids a little something to remember her by?
- High Plains MD is a blog born of heartbreak compounded by disappointment. A family physician seeks a reason beyond the paycheck. A beautifully rendered alternative path to meaning and FI.
- Investing Doc is an internist in Texas from humble origins who learned to budget and is working his way to FI.
- Kevin MD is the exit strategy that happens when a social media savvy doc jumps into a wild west online space early. Many doc finance bloggers guest post here.
- Life of a Med Student was started during the medical school education of a now mature anesthesiologist. Highlights financial aspects of the med student experience.
- Look For Zebras is a site dedicated to off ramps from clinical medicine, exploring non-clinical careers and side hustles for physicians.
- Loonie Doctor (a.k.a. Physician Finance Canada) is an irreverent, hilarious academic critical care Canuck who writes from the "mosh pit" of medicine to make you a full financial code.
- Love, Success and the Sock Drawer is a financial independence-oriented, dual physician couple who share the philosophy that a less intense, part-time career is an excellent path toward a balanced life. Amen.
- MD on FI/RE is the long-awaited blog of Gasem, a 60-something retired anesthesiologist whose inimitable voice, highly-regarded and ubiquitous comments, deep dive guest posts and extreme candor have endeared him to every physician finance blogger on this list.
- Me and My Stethoscope is lovingly tended by an internist with compelling posts on double standards for women in medicine and the hurt we absorb from our patients. While not overtly financial, her posts will resonate deeply - a newcomer to watch out for.
- Millionaire Doc is a private practice physician with an audacious goal to reach a $20 million net worth.
- Minimal MD is a dermatologist who was inadvertently accepted to medical school at age 17 and retired from medicine at age 34. While many stars had to align to make that happen, her high earn low burn lifestyle is an example many of us could learn from.
- Physician Finance Basics is a nice counterweight to the dubious headlines that begin with, "Florida Man..." and end in indignity. Dr. Mitra Sadhu is a Florida-based nephrologist excited to get fellow physicians up to par on their financial literacy. Anyone who gets acid-base physiology has my vote of confidence.
- Passive Income MD is an anesthesiologist and the latest addition to the WCI empire. His passive income streams support a 200k/yr lifestyle in LA - wow.
- Physician In Numbers is a newcomer with a female breadwinner, primary care perspective - a welcome and underrepresented breath of fresh air on this list.
- Physician On Fire is an anesthesiologist, brewer, WCI empire member, founder of the Physicians on Fire facebook group and ubiquitous FI ambassador on the cusp of leaving medicine in his early 40s.
- Physician Philosopher is an anesthesiologist paying it forward by helping younger docs learn financial lessons early, using his path to FI as a case study.
- Physician Zen is an academic emergency physician who completed dual-fellowships while married with kids and living in SoCal. Did I mention he and his spouse paid off $350k his first year out of fellowship! He covers productivity, stress-reduction and FI.
- Pivot Points MD is the brainchild of the emergency physician behind the Financial Literacy Project facebook group, a promising voice for those of us who find our redemption in financial literacy at later stages.
- Dr. Plastickpicker [sic] is a self-described "wannabe financial blogger" aiming to FISE (Financial Independence, Save the Earth). Written by a pediatrician and mom, this half of a west coast dual MD household is passionate about saving money and the planet.
- Practice Balance is an anesthesiologist whose lightning bolt moment came when she had her daughter. A wellness blogger with strong financial overtones emphasizing the power of enough. She's frugal, but not cheap: find out why her $700 espresso machine remains compatible with simple living.
- Prudent Plastic Surgeon is the journal of an earnest and fresh-faced microsurgery fellow, feeling poor in NYC but bootstrapping his way to financial literacy to turn the ship around.
- Reflections of a Millennial Doctor is a compelling story of insidious burnout early in medicine, along with a recovery plan, told by a med-peds doc in the pacific northwest.
- Reset Button is the creation of a Justin (a.k.a. ResetMD), a Gen-X midwesterner who discovered minimalism as a path out of a vicious work, burnout and consumption cycle. His blog explores how understanding finances, possessions an priorities can positively impact fulfillment.
- Rogue Dad MD is an academic in Peds EM who has published on physician financial illiteracy. His blog is delightfully wide-ranging in scope. Ask about his son and the tooth fairy.
- Semi-Retired MD is the product of an entrepreneurial dual physician couple who, after starting a couple of successful companies, used passive income from real estate to tailor their careers to suit their lifestyles. Check out their post on hiking Cinque Terre with a toddler!
- Senior Resident is a radiologist married to a psychiatrist, living in Hawaii and blogging on investing and medical school debt among other topics.
- Smart Money MD is an ophthalmologist who sees right through your deficient medical education, bringing you up to speed on the psychology and logistics of personal finance.
- Solitary Diner is the blog of a young Canadian doc (The Frugalish Physician) who wears her heart on her sleeve as she explores the anxiety and reassurance that come with getting your financial house in order.
- Solo Building Blogs is run by a pair of entrepreneurial ophthalmologists with a bias toward solo practice and a finance angle to their posts.
- SoMe Docs seeks to amplify physician presence and influence through social media, including finance and burnout mitigation components in its broad mandate.
- Stealth Wealth Family is the new project by the anesthesiologist behind Practice Balance who delves beyond wellness to explore intentional living and parenting as freedoms that accompany FI. How thoughtful living translates in the messy real world.
- SurgiFI is a Navy surgeon on the road to financial independence, overcoming obstacles most of us have trouble imagining: his mother never earned more that $18k a year, and his childhood included moments living in homeless shelters and a car. He's the photo in the dictionary when you look up the definition of grit.
- Table For One is a female Canadian doc's journey with ample reflections on frugal living and money management.
- The Darwinian Doctor is a surgeon living in Southern California who is exploring how life evolves on the path to FI, fitness, home ownership and balance in medicine. Did I mention he spends more per month than Mr. Money Mustache spends annually? It's FI vs. HCOL in a battle for the soul and wallet, told in an unflinchingly honest tone.
- The Finance Twins are inspiring: Born to Colombian immigrants, father dies young leaving mother to raise 3 boys in the U.S. They excel. Identical twins Smart and Smarter (Harvard Business School and Mayo Med School, respectively) start a personal finance blog because it was the only challenge they hadn't yet succeeded at.
- The Scope Of Practice is written by a GI doc (married to a physician) who blogs on finance, productivity, and early career strategies - an apt name for this all-encompassing blog. Read the post that won me over here, about making generosity a touchstone of your financial plan.
- The Stock MD is a refreshingly contrarian perspective with a deliciously droll sense of humor. This "bored [sic] certified surgeon" promised he'd leave medicine after his first million dollar year as a day trader. That happened in 2019, at age 40. Day trading is now his main gig. The next Michael Burry? You decide.
- This Big Road Trip is a UK-born family medicine doc, married to a non-MD, licensed in Canada. They sell everything, buy a souped up camper, and roam the world - all while she continues to practice telemedicine from remote locations for patients in British Columbia! Check out their ten year plan to drive around the world.
- Tired Super Heroine is an interventional radiologist living in California who speaks to work-life balance and financial empowerment for female physician parents. Gets my vote for most awesome blog name.
- Wealthy Doc went from dirt poor to FI and lends his MD/MBA perspective as a bootstrapper with street cred.
- Wealthy Mom MD (formerly Miss Bonnie MD) is a dermatologist profiling financially successful female physicians with a mission to increase financial literacy for women in medicine.
- White Coat Investor (WCI) is an emergency physician, entrepreneur, prolific Boglehead, and undisputed pioneer of physician personal finance. The blog that launched a thousand blogs. If I dropped words like "juggernaut," which I don't, this is where I might use them.
- Xrayvsn is a radiologist in the southeast who has made an auspicious debut on the scene, garnering guest posts and acclaim from WCI forum royalty. Everyone's favorite new neighbor.
To make this list a blogger needs to have a fresh post within the prior 3 months when I conduct an unannounced spot check.
If a website announces how to book a speaker or how to find a podcast, I don't consider it an active physician finance blog.
Thanks for understanding,
CD