I was reviewing my notes from the physician finance conference I recently attended, and one of the interesting aspects is that my notes on finance were scant, while my notes on purposeful living were substantial. This is yet another by-product of having cultivated financial literacy and developed an investor policy statement – once money is properly understood and given tasks that …
Time With My Tribe
I attended the largest physician finance conference in the US in 2020, when the pandemic lockdowns unfurled in real time. I gave a talk and led a panel on burnout at that time. After my talk, I called home. My wife informed me that the kids’ schools had closed indefinitely and suggested I might want to return home earlier than …
Same Planet, Different Universe Of Choices
Recently, I caught up on the writing of a fellow physician finance blogger, Dr. Cory Fawcett at Financial Success MD. Cory is a “repurposed” surgeon who reinvented his career after leaving medicine in his early 50s to become an author, coach and financial blogger. I admire him for forging this encore career. When his youngest son had an unexpected window of …
Let’s Take A Break
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 …
A Conference About Money And Marriage In Medicine?
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 …
Announcing WCI CON 2022
[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 …
Where Are They Now? An Update From Wealthy Doc
One of the great pleasures of this blog has been getting to befriend and learn from other physician finance bloggers. It’s an even greater privilege when they offer to share their playbook for how cutting back their clinical hours helped them achieve their goals. I met Wealthy Doc in a bar in Orlando, but we weren’t living out the lyrics …
Commit An Hour To Living The Examined Life
My invisible friend and fellow physician finance blogger, Matt Poyner, invested two years of his life in creating a talk for his fellow docs. Why might his education (formal and informal) and experiences compel you to spend an hour of your time with him? Matt is a Canadian ER doc, married and a father of four boys, who sold his …
What Happens At WCI CON
[Disclosure: If you register for WCI CON 21 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 2021, offered every 1-2 years by the White Coat Investor. I was a speaker at the 2020 convention, which took place in March and coincided with the …
A Visit From Scrappy Younger Me
When you start a physician finance blog, you are burning to share your message. You say yes to every opportunity, and are flattered when anyone expresses remote interest in what you have to say. Two plus years ago, I was a young upstart approached by a similarly newish blogger who asked me to complete a written interview that he assured …