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Ep 49. Dr. Disha MD -- The Frugal Physician

Doctor Money Matters

Release Date: 05/09/2019

Ep 62. Doctors and Social Media -- Dana Corriel, MD show art Ep 62. Doctors and Social Media -- Dana Corriel, MD

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On this episode we talk about social media with Dana Corriel MD, an internal medicine physician and creator of the SoMeDocs group. She recently left the practice of medicine to help physicians develop their online presence. Her goal is to help empower physicians reach their patients, a broader audience, and develop their brand and yet balance it with responsibilities as professionals, employees, etc. We talked about why she left medicine to pursue this opportunity. Dr. Corriel runs master classes for physicians interested in improving or developing their presence. I am going to be a teacher in...

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Ep 56. Karen Sibert, MD -- Good luck finding a doctor in 10 years. show art Ep 56. Karen Sibert, MD -- Good luck finding a doctor in 10 years.

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Dr. Karen Sibert, an anesthesiologist in California, wrote an article that went viral last week and this weekend as a response to the repeated attacks on physicians by the media and by economists or other "policy experts". The Washington Post said physicians were behaving like muggers. A Noble prize winning economist called us rent seekers. We discuss why she wrote this article. Why she sees concerning trends about the future physician workforce and areas where things are improving though not perfect yet. If you have not yet read her article. Here is a link to her website

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On this episode, my guest is Dr. Disha of The Frugal Physician blog. We talked about her journey from being in debt to quickly paying off loans as a primary care physician despite a few financial setbacks. Obviously it is easier to payback loans in a dual high income couple but for many of my listeners, there is only one earner or one high income earner in the family, so we talk about how she did this.

Disha is an internal medicine physician who caught the financial independence bug after a couple of typical new grad mistakes. She went from a high end home on an island in the US to downsizing in order to get down her debt levels. She talks about the moment while she was on maternity leave when it dawned on her that she was worrying about finance rather than concentrating on her family, so she finally had to breakdown and use the B word (Budget).

She used the debt snowball approach to line up her debts from smallest to largest in order to get the families finances under control. We talk actual dollar amounts so that you get a better idea of how she was able to reduce housing costs (not just mortgage vs rent, but also maintenance, renovating, etc)

In 12 months of concentrated effort, she was able to knock of $150k off the debt. Impressive.

Then we hit on where she is now and what her plans are once the debt is paid off.

Disha also talked about what perceptions from family members and non physician friends about doctors finances and how she dealt with that.

Finally we talk about her George Costanza moment when she walked into her boss’s office and quit her job and then had to go back because she realized she could not afford to do so.

Dr. Disha has a great plan for her finances and will no doubt be successful.

You can find out more about Disha and her blog at The Frugal Physician

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