If it’s time to establish your first practice or change to a new one, don’t make the mistake of thinking it’s no big deal where you go. The decision you’re about to make will positively or negatively impact the rest of your life. If you don’t choose right, the correction can be very expensive and take a high emotional toll. The cost attributed to one of my friend’s moves to …
When looking for a new physician job, location matters most
Evidence-based medicine is at the heart of what we physicians do. It is the basis for professional decision-making, and a focus of most journal articles we read. Using solid evidence to practice good medicine has been a foundation of clinical practice for decades.
There are consequences for failing to follow evidence-based guidelines. If patient harm results from straying from a more loosely defined “standard of care,” which tends to be evidence-based, …
It’s time for physicians to practice an evidence-based life
In the ten years since I graduated from residency, I have noticed an interesting correlation between burnout and finances among my physician colleagues: The more secure we are financially, the more we enjoy our work. However, physicians working long clinic hours and moonlighting 15 times a month as a hospitalist in order to make alimony payments, boat payments, mortgage payments, or all …
5 tips for physicians to achieve financial freedom
Although the time of year when everyone has their list of tax questions has just passed, tax questions are appropriate all year. It’s best to be prepared at tax preparation time, so much less stress is created. Tax time can be especially stressful for younger taxpayers who are going through life changes, or earning substantially higher income for the first time.
Young physician families are an excellent example of this type …
Tax tips for doctors and young physician families
An excerpt from The Freedom Formula for Physicians.
Get the last copy of your pay stub. What is your year-to-date compensation? What is your annualized compensation?
Hint: Take your current compensation and multiple it by 12, divided by the number of months already compensated. For example, using an end-of-the-month May check, multiply the amount by 12 divided by 5.
Get the last copy of …
Physicians: How to gain insight into your tax situation
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