Today we continue our series on whole life insurance. This week we've learned how whole life works and that it isn't great insurance or a great investment. Yesterday we learned that whole life insur...
I recently had an article published on The Student Doctor Network (SDN) entitled Financial Considerations For the Student Doctor. It is aimed squarely at medical students and their financial needs, b...
By Dr. James M. Dahle, WCI Founder Medicine is a wonderful profession which does vast amounts of good. I attended my 10 year medical school reunion recently and I was even more impressed with the acc...
[Editor's Note: This is a guest post written by Jason Cabler. Jason is a Dentist, Christian personal finance blogger, speaker, and owner of Celebrating Financial Freedom. He teaches people how to be...
I love it when people write personal finance and investing books aimed at physicians. I love it even more when they are written BY physicians FOR physicians. I am far more forgiving of differences o...
Investors and dieters have many things in common. Getting rich and getting skinny both take a long time. Don't look for shortcuts.
How much is a new residency graduate worth to a prospective employer? Here's how to get paid what you're worth and stop leaving money on the table.
I've been working in an emergency department for over 10 years now. I've become used to talking about many subjects that are essentially taboo in most adult conversations. I coax vivid descriptions...
I wrote about some things to think about when deciding whether or not to pay off your mortgage early a few months ago. My wife and I had a discussion about paying off our mortgage the other day (whic...
Good financial planners start the financial planning process with a discussion of your values. They then move into setting specific goals and then design and implement a financial plan to reach those...
Q. I come from a lower middle class family that made a total of less than 30k/year (combined income) and I am the first and only physician in my family. I'm currently finishing up fellowship in a su...
A reader wonders if he should raid his retirement accounts to improve his standard of living in fellowship. Probably not.
[Editor's Note: Our question/guest post this week comes from Jonathan Clarke, MD, an emergency physician practicing in Texas. Jonathan is one of my former residents, who is not only nearly as cheap a...
Medscape put out their annual physician salary survey and I found the results pretty surprising. This isn't my favorite survey out there, and I have my own suspicions about the quality of the data. Q...
If you're planning on renting out your house after you move out, it would behoove you to figure out if it is a good investment prior to moving in.