January 2018

January 1, 2018Jan 1, 20182

Many of the everyday coalface problems we face in health care are simply due to suboptimal communication. It could be the patient or family member who doesn’t know what’s going on in the hospital, the nurse who is confused about orders, or the doctor who doesn’t understand the reasoning behind the seemingly terrible administrative directive they are receiving.

Take it from me, as someone who has seen health care at close …

Physician finance

Should you give up your Starbucks latte?

Wall Street Physician, MD

January 1, 2018Jan 1, 20183

You’ve probably heard of the Starbucks latte effect. As the theory goes, small changes, multiplied and compounded over time, can end up becoming big savings. For example, if you drink 1 Starbucks latte for $3.50 every day for 250 work…

You’ve probably heard of the Starbucks latte effect.

As the theory goes, small changes, multiplied and compounded over time, can end up becoming big savings.

For example, if you drink 1 Starbucks latte for $3.50 every day for 250 work days a year, then over 10 years, you’ll have spent tens of thousands of dollars on Starbucks coffee. Cut the Starbucks coffee from your life, and you could buy a nice car …

Physician finance

What would you do if you won the lottery? Here’s one physician’s plan.

Dads Dollars Debts, MD

January 1, 2018Jan 1, 2018

Yup, I won the lottery! $785 million dollars. Pinch me because I must be dreaming. I am a physician finance blogger; I would not recommend buying a lottery ticket. But I did. So screw all the people who said it…

So here I am, the big time winner: What to do now? Well, that is what this post is about.

(In reality, I did not win the …