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 […]
Attending
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 […]
How to Retire Early
It’s Whatever Wednesdays again. So let’s talk a bit about where I live: Hawaii. Hawaii probably isn’t the first place on your list of places to live. However, I think it’s on most people’s places to vacation or honeymoon to… for good reason. Let’s explore. So first some background. Like I discussed in my About page, I’m a radiologist currently living in Hawaii. I came out back in April 2014 and have been out here […]
Living in Hawaii
This is the third part in the Physician Contracts series. Please read 1 and 2 before reading this one. This post will focus on more complex private practice and partnership-type contracts, in a very general sense. Please note that there is wide variation in these kinds of contracts, with the larger variability coming from the specialty involved and the location of the practice. That said, let’s jump in. Partnership So the idea of partnership comes in […]
Physician Contracts Part Three
Ok, we’ve gone through a bunch of the finance, investing and retirement topics in my prior posts. We now have enough information to start talking about how to plan for your own retirement. If you haven’t read them yet, I would advise you to go through the Finance Fridays posts and read most, if not all of them before reading this post. It’s a lot of reading, but really you need that background in order […]