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A physician’s letter to his wife
To my wife, Let’s just start at the beginning. When we first met, you thought I was arrogant and prideful. For two and a half years we would rarely talk while we walked past each other in our small college town. At the time, we never could have imagi…
Physicians who pursue financial independence and early retirement are not wrong. It may save them.
When Jason Kilar graduated from college he experienced tremendous personal and professional adversity. Three days after graduation, Kilar’s father ended his own life after battling bipolar disorder. Kilar also battled professional valleys. In the mont…
5 reasons why this male physician went part-time
Recently, Crispy Doc ran an interview with Vagabond MD that highlighted his road to part-time work. This struck a chord with me as I’ve considered doing the same despite being in my second year as an attending physician. In fact, Crispy Doc and I had…
Meet the physician who became a financial advisor
If you can’t beat ’em, join them (and make it better). Am I right? This was some of the sentiment I felt as I registered with FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) to take the Series 65 exam. Passing this exam will allow me to register in …
Meet the physician who became a financial advisor
If you can’t beat ’em, join them (and make it better). Am I right? This was some of the sentiment I felt as I registered with FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) to take the Series 65 exam. Passing this exam will allow me to register in …
How should physicians pay off their debt?
By this point, a lot of people have heard the famous Dave Ramsey quote, “If you live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.” Ramsey is known for being a proponent of attacking debt aggressively when people ask, “How should I pay off my…
How burnout helped this physician find his purpose
A common proverb teaches that, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Medicine is a world where people are well-intended. Yet they fail to change a system that is broken and continues to produce burned out, depressed, and suicidal doctors. We can see their final destination, look back, and realize that we helped pave the road that […]
Side hustles are the best kind of asset protection
My oldest girl and I love watching birds. We usually watch the birds right outside our backdoor while they eat from our bird feeder. As we were watching one day, it amazed me how comfortable the birds were jumping from post to post on the feeder or from branch to branch on the trees. Often times […]
After you die, what will your legacy be?
As part of my job as an anesthesiologist, I get called to truly horrific airway events. Sometimes they are down in the emergency department after a bad car accident, drowning, or burn. Others are in ICU’s. Sometimes they are even in hallways or bathrooms where people have stopped breathing or collapsed from cardiac arrest. It’s […]
Learn from the prior generation that left little for their own retirement
One of my best friends recently sent me an article from the Wall Street Journal discussing the generation that is about to enter into retirement. The article highlighted how this generation will have an unacceptably high proportion of people who are unable to retire. Following a generation that had guaranteed pensions, this left them with the reassurance […]
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