It’s Whatever Wednesdays and as per usual, this will be kind of a random post about writing style. My writing style is kind of unique and weird. I tend to write as if I am having a conversation with someone. The other day I was trying to think about why I write like I do and I made a quick list in my phone. While this may be boring for some, it offers me the […]
Monthly Archives: August 2016
EpiPen has been in the news a lot lately, mostly about the recent price increases. This has led to strong backlash and criticism against its parent company, Mylan, and its CEO, Heather Bresch. There is a lot information going around. However, I’m going to try to summarize what I have read and pieced together. Ok first things first: EpiPen recently increases the cost of a 2-pack of its product to $608. This was a significant increase since it previously cost […]
EpiPen
In my previous two posts, Retiring Early and How To Retire Early, I went through my approach to retiring early. However, this is a case of “Do as I say, not as I do”. While I advise/advocate for planning to retire early, I am not necessarily doing it. In the comments of Retiring Early, TheHappyPhilosopher states: “I contend it is stupidly easy for a physician to retire at age 55, and the only reason one shouldn’t […]
Early Retirement is Easy?
This is copied from my recent Quora answer. I am 25 and applying to a pre med program in the Caribbean, I’ve never taken any medical college courses before, should I take a couple at a local CC? First things first. I am a graduate from a Caribbean Medical School, so I am somewhat qualified to answer this question. That link which will take you to my blog post on the subject as a primer […]
Caribbean Medical Schools Part Two
Here in Hawaii, there was a recent Hepatitis A outbreak. It happened around the end of June or so, into July. It was recently discovered that the outbreak came from raw scallops shipped in from the Phillipines. Unfortunately, this batch of scallops went to Genki Sushi. This sushi chain is relatively common on Oahu and people seem to like it. It has a conveyor belt style (kaiten zushi or kuru kuru sushi) that is pretty common in […]
Hepatitis A Outbreak
The primer for this post is here: Retiring Early We’re going to go through some of the math you need to understand in order to retire early. Let’s start with this: How much money do you need a year during your retirement to last from 55 until ~ 90? (from my prior post) Is it 60k? Then you need ~$2 million. Is it 80k? Then you need between $2.5 million to $2.75 million. Is it […]