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1. The pay is basically what you quoted above. 250-275. W2 2. The work is infinitely easier. Normal hours. No med mal risk. There is a TON of grey area in this business which is why actual physicians have to do it and AI is not much of a concern at the moment. It is not the most riveting...

I knew as soon as I wrote that someone would say that, before posting I meant to change it to good-ish guy. Maybe score one for the "better" guy is most accurate. good guy is too generous.

I've been doing it part time (16-20h/mo) for my hospital system for a year now. They are now asking some of us to do it full time. About the same money. fully remote. The work isn't bad, it's pretty easy, the p2p insurance calls are sometimes annoying but a lot of the time they give in and...

I'm also 1099 with S corp, though i also do some tele-utilization stuff for my hospital that solidifies my need for the office, but to your question, you need to chart, attend meetings and answer emails as conditions of your employment. These are central elements of your job and still count...

No, it mirrors the rest of my portfolio. equities/REIT/Bonds 80/10/10. Bravotwozero, sorry to hear that. Definitely not my experience, or that of any of my partners. We are all quite pleased with LDSCO. The fees are exactly what they said they would be. $2500 +/- a couple hundred bucks in...

Loren Loren D Stark Company ldsco.com I've used them for the last 6 years and have no complaints.

another plug for a defined benefit plan. There is a bit of leg work to get it started and they are kind of expensive to maintain, but for my age, (mid 40's) I get to put away an additional pretax 120-150k/y for a measly $2500-3k in administrative fees. I control the investments (mine is at...

when you decide you need a break from the heat...and you will... https://austintoymuseum.org/ part toy museum, part arcade, part bar. we go every time we are in austin. it's the only thing the whole family, kids and adults, can agree on. we were once there for 6 hours and never got bored...

Good on the OP for starting this thread. It was a fun exercise to look back and take a moment of gratitude for my younger self for putting in the work to get us to where we are now, because honestly, current me would not be able to shoulder the same load. 2013 - 2nd year as an attending...

Long time lurker, very infrequent poster I don't know a single doctor from my cohort (11y out) who doesn't have an eye on the door or at least wastes an exorbitant amount of time sifting through linkedin ads for "nonclinical"-ish jobs that all seem pretty lame, all the while fantasizing about a...

sorry for the confusion. "screening out" is a bit of a local colloquialism for their ultimate disposition. Everyone who comes to the ED gets a medical screening exam (the actual examination) but MSE (aka getting screened out) as docb mentioned above is also its own disposition option in our...

I posted this almost 6 years ago, where has the time gone, in a similar thread about PG. Though everything mentioned above, sitting down, getting blankets, etc has been shown to improve scores, a system one of my old medical directors cooked up years ago worked really well. Stuffing the ballot...

I use a private retirement company out of Houston LDSCO.com

That is the set up I have. The pension company I use is the TPA but my “pooled money account” (where the dbp money actually gets deposited) is at vanguard and I manage all the investments. No middle men.

I’ve never been in a position to have to ask about penalties, but every year my pension firm gives me a contribution max and minimum. I’m trying to fill this plan as fast as possible, so I always just budget to hit the max, but have always felt that the minimums are always very reachable. One...