The struggle is real. Oh so real. The realest. Ok, so here’s the deal. As a doctor you have firmly established yourself as middle class, with possible candidacy for upper-middle class. The likelihood of ever being upper class is pretty low. However, as soon as you get an MD behind your name, everyone you know thinks you are ballin’ out of control and makin’ it rain in the club… and well, that is patently false. […]
Monthly Archives: March 2016
What do you mean by “survival mode”? Well, once you start residency you need to learn to prioritize things very efficiently. For many of you this will be your first job. This is not the same as being a medical student where no one really cared whether you were around or not. Yes, I realize you did do some weeks of long hours as a medical student, and yes, there was your sub-I where you […]
“Survival Mode”
This is my first “Finance Fridays” post so this is what I would consider an introduction and Talking the Talk. A huge part of understanding any concept is understanding the vocabulary. In medicine, this concept holds true even as a medical student. You spend the first two years of medical student learning anatomy, biochemistry, and physiology. This continues into the higher level subjects of pharmacology and pathology. However, I would argue that a substantial portion of both Pathology […]
Talking the Talk
Ok, let’s talk about The House Buying Itch – Medical Student Edition. Renting sucks. You’re paying someone else money every month and so you feel like you’re lighting money on fire every month. Money that you really need. Money that you could be using on other things, LOTS OF OTHER THINGS. You feel like a sucker or a chump paying some landlord of a rental management company every month. You’re an ideal tenant… You’ve never […]
The House Buying Itch – Medical Student Edition
Here it is, my first post! This should have been posted yesterday at 3/21/2016… but for some reason my plugin to crosspost to Twitter and Facebook didn’t work. My apologies. Mistakes were made. But anyways… I’ve gone through medical school, internship, residency, and fellowship. All in all, I’ve had about 10 years of being around doctors-to-be, residents, and attendings. From my experience, I am about to make a sweeping generalization. I think there are 3 main types […]
Bad Doctor, Good Doctor, Bad for Doctor
#MatchDay2016 #MatchDay #iMatched #Match2016 #Match The day of matching. The first day of the rest of your life. The alpha. The omega. What is there to say? CONGRATULATIONS! You matched into Specialty X at location Y. Whether it was at Podunk College in BFE or Ivory Tower in Awesomeville, you have now officially embarked on your journey to being a “real doctor”. Bask in this moment and enjoy it. Go out with your friends and […]