In our last installment, we recognized the value of money as a means of allotting your time in accordance with your values; identified financial independence for physicians as a goal worth pursuing from the earliest stages of your medical training; and discussed poor decisions that physicians commonly make, with the hope that we might tame the impulse to buy a new car or an irrationally expensive home fresh out of med school or residency.
CrispyDoc is a graduate of Stanford, UCSF and Harvard. He completed a residency in Emergency Medicine (EM) at UCLA and an International EM Fellowship at Harvard. A born-again personal finance geek, you can drink his Kool-aid at crispydoc.com.