The physician financial literacy gap nobody addresses

When I started earning a real income as a surgeon, I was thirty-two years old and financially illiterate. Nobody had taught me anything about money. Not medical school. Not my mentors. Not the hospital. Not the senior surgeons I admired.

I knew how to stop bleeding. I did not know how compound interest worked.

That personal anecdote is not the point. The point is that it is not personal at all. It …

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The physician financial literacy gap nobody addresses