Fawcett Wedding. Before my wife and I got married, 28 years ago during my surgical internship, we were required to attend a pre-marital class. The class brought up many things for us to discuss ahead of the wedding date. The idea being, if you go into the marriage with expectations of each other that you … Read more
Vanessa R. Majeski, General Surgery Award, COMP-NW 2017. Yesterday, I had the privilege of presenting the Clinical Specialty Award for General Surgery at the 2017 Graduate Awards Celebration at Western University of Health Science’s College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific (COMP-NW). It was amazing to hear all the accomplishments and meet so many wonderful … Read more
KevinMD recently published my article about viewing debt as a disease, Malignant Credit Carcinoma. Here is an excerpt of that article, which comes from my book, ”The Doctors Guide to Eliminating Debt.” Debt should have an ICD-10 code Debt is destroying the lives of doctors everywhere. The cost of getting an education has moved into … Read more
With a society living on credit, a government deep in debt, eight years of desensitization during training (something unique to doctors), rising tuition, and falling pay—it’s no wonder doctors are having a major problem with debt. Where will it end? Debt has become the norm. Will Rogers summed up this pattern of high consumption on … Read more
The high-pitched wail of the pneumatic saw cutting through the tibia and the little bits of tissue the blade flung onto the surgeon’s gown were not enough to get to me the first time I saw a surgery, during my senior year in high school. It was the smell. Sliding down the wall in the … Read more
We are forever telling our patients to get exercise, but do we practice what we preach? I find my to-do list often keeps me away from the gym. How about you? Today’s episode is about getting that exercise in the schedule. Hope it will spark some ideas for you to try and get in the … Read more
All of life is a balancing act. Driving a car is a delicate balance between the gas, the brake, and the steering wheel. Too much brake and we go nowhere. Too much gas and we can’t control the car. Too much left turn and we end up in the ditch. When we attain balance between … Read more
Book drawing winners Recently Dr. Pamela Wible posted a nice article about my new book “The Doctors Guide to Eliminating Debt.” I especially liked the part where she called my wife, Carolyn, a “brilliant accountant.” She discussed her journey with becoming debt free and quitting her “job” by age 36 and you can read it … Read more
If you have always associated becoming debt free with undergoing great sacrifice, this video is for you. Becoming debt free is all about attitude, not sacrifice. Hope you enjoy.
This week’s video contains an interesting story about how I got sued without ever knowing about it and why it is important for you to have an umbrella policy. Hope you find it helpful.
