Debt to Dreams

For those out there still entertaining the thought of going to medical school I have run across a couple of interesting articles on the dynamics of becoming a physician in todays environment.

Forbes ran an article last month addressing the major concerns facing most physicians right now.

There is a large divide between the generations of […]

A sign that I am way behind the times: It’s almost October and I am just now getting to this months issue of Money magazine!
I was surprised to see this in one of their articles:
even a $100,000 debt is a reasonable trade-off for a medical degree
This is the foundation of this blog. As […]

By now if you have been reading about personal finance you will have read an article or two on delayed gratification. Most people will agree that an element of delayed gratification is very useful if you plan to accumulate wealth. In fact, some very smart individuals over at Stanford even did a study […]

I was doing an Internet search for information about the Obesity epidemic and how it affects us financially when I came across a great article that is now about 6 years old but remains spot on when it comes to “Fixing a Fat Nation“.  The fact that this article was written half a decade ago and we […]

At this point in my life I can easily believe the stories of Residents/Interns in years past having their power/water or telephone cut off because they spent so much time at the hospital that they didn’t have time to pay their bills.
Last week was one of those weeks that I thank those who came before […]

I am almost 30 years old, but I still haven’t had my first “real job” yet.
I want to be clear, I do earn an income as a Resident and I definitely work enough hours for it to classify as a job, but because residency is a formal continuation of the education process(an apprenticeship […]