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 […]
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 […]
Match Day
New Year, New You… or something… right? I bought this domain almost a year ago with a plan to go live with this site on January 1st. So after a ton of procrastinating, here it is! This blog is about “Life after Med School”. This is primarily because I am a physician and that is where my expertise lies. However, I realized that my plan is really more about “real life”, ie. life after college, or […]