Escapades from the month of November, 2017: Professional I am in the midst of a Cardiology rotation where I hope to learn how to manage post-operative cardiac complications and figure out what the heck to do with EKGs besides stare at them for 10 seconds and say “Well, I’m not really too impressed.” Current Projects -Building a shed out of wood …
Monthly Archives: November 2017
We’ll pick up right where we left Sonya, the intrepid daughter of a boar wrestling mother and doily-designing father. She just graduated from her internal medicine residency at the University of Wisconsin with a net worth of -$61,874. That student loan debt that looked so fearsome is starting to appear more house pig than wild boar. Fellowship, Year 1 : …
Or, what we can learn from the FIRE community. The FIRE movement, or Financially Independent, Retired Early, is swiftly emerging from years underground. Some very well known blogs, such as Mr. Money Moustache, Millennial Money, and The Money Habit, are FIRE blogs. The idea is to create a debt management and investment plan early, invest a lot of your income, …
Presenting a fictional but realistic situation where someone with a plan defies the odds and starts her healthcare career with a positive net worth. Without rich parents. Meet Sonya. The boar isn’t Sonya, and it wasn’t supposed to look so friendly, but whatever. Sonya is from Arkansas, where her mother is the state’s only female free hand wild boar wrestler …
Is a positive net worth as a resident possible? Absolutely. Are people doing it? According to statistics, obviously not. One of the most audacious goals here at Millennial in Medicine is to finish residency with a positive net worth. It’s possible. And I’m not the only one who thinks so. So many of our decisions in healthcare, from which specialty …