A cautionary tale, or mathematical parable? I recently experienced an inexcusable judgmental moment, one that could be a learning opportunity for all of us, unless you’re not as ignorant as I was. As you’ve probably guessed, it all started with a toilet problem. The details do not beg elaboration. I hired a plumber to install a new 1.8 gpf porcelain throne. Sometimes I …
Physician/bloggers. There are a lot of them. I made a list of my favorites. Personal finance bloggers. There are probably more of them than there are personal finance books. I included my favorites on the list. And lifestyle bloggers…well you don’t need any qualifications to write about how you live your life, so there are even more of them. Their …
Professional I took an online class for elective credit while preparing for the USMLE Step 2 exams, both computer-based Clinical Knowledge and awkward Clinical Skills test that pairs you with 12 real-live-fake patients. I chose to use only one resource for each: UWorld for the computer exam (but who doesn’t?), and First Aid’s Step 2 Clinical Skills for the exercise …
Or, two pharmacists play out the magic of compounding. It’s an oft-debated topic: I have loans at relatively high interest rates. When I have extra money, should I pay them off or invest instead? Many finance gurus always advise paying off loans–you have a guaranteed “return” because you eliminate a known interest rate. In general, I agree with that, especially …
Way back in dental school, I once served on an admissions panel where prospective students and their concerned, hopeful parents could ask current attendees about the school’s particulars. In one of these sessions, four or five questions into a discussion on finding housing on campus and why having a new facility means the world to us (it didn’t, really), a bespectacled elderly gentleman raised his hand to …
(I know, it’s a compass, not a watch. Did it get your attention?) Yes, it would be serendipitous if we could all flick a switch and suddenly be able to stick to disciplined schedules and complete our entire To Do list after work each day. Unfortunately, that’s not how the life of a medical professional goes. We spend all day …
Or, My Yard Explains Your Financial Situation and Exercise Routine Something had to be done. A meteorogically impossible series of intense floods and prolonged droughts had plaqued my intern year in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Fresh out of dental school and spending 80 hours a week puzzling over fluid orders and how to use my expensive stethoscope, I’d neglected that …
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 …
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, …