Newish attending, not planning to buy a house for several years, re-assure me please

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are folks actually worried that we are entering a depression? if so, why?

my very limited understanding is that this retreat in stocks was...

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i understand the caution, but i believe you are overthinking this.

i did a lot of surveys, earned a few extra grand per year in training....

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my wife and i learned a few days ago that she is pregnant for the first time. this was a fairly big surprise. we live in a state that has banned abortions...

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PE ruining EM is talked about alot on this forum, but the same thing is happening to ophtho and derm. PE is buying up a lot of the groups, and young docs...

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any data or anecdotes on the average collections for a PP ortho surgeon? just curious. some folks above mention some ortho PP docs collecting 2 million,...

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i'm not a bitcoin or crypto hater, i find it interesting. but with the recent market changes over the past 6 months, i have been checking the price of...

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Hello all,


I am 2 years out of fellowship, in a surgical specialty, in a private practice group, in NW, MCOL. Job has gone great so...

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i don't mean to be rude but how is this even a question?

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i use the goodreads app, which helps me keep track of books i've read or hope to read. i read 14 books last year. mostly history books or memoirs, occasionally...

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in my first few months of being an attending i splurged and spent ~10k (afraid to look back and total it up honestly) on stuff from rogue fitness for...

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with the global decline of democracies and rise of autocrats, what happens if more countries simply ban crypto like china recently did?...

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too many people are only familiar with that one speech from MLK. there is much more to him than that. don't cherry pick one speech.

suggesting...

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jeez man, you need to read up on unconscious biases if you really think that....

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Need to consider the big picture here. Is the senior doctor taking on uncompensated responsibilities that you won't have to deal with?

i.e....

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yeah something isn't adding up here.

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why isn't all the income for travel nurses taxable?

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my sister is a BSN several years out and is currently looking for high paying travel nursing gigs. the highest paying offer that she has been able to...

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if the U.S. government "printing" money was the main cause of inflation, why is inflation a current problem globally, especially in europe?...

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my sister who is a BSN several years out of school is looking into traveling nursing... the highest rates she has been able to find have been ~3.5k per...

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i'm interested in putting a small percentage of my portfolio to crypto but not interested enough to do the legwork and learn about the exchanges and how...

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inflation is a global issue, this is not U.S. specific.

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i'm mild-moderately interested in having some bitcoin as a small percentage of my portfolio as i've found the arguments put forth in this thread mildly...

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thanks for the response... your approach seems logical.

so are you currently waiting for the moderna booster (half dose of the original 2...

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OK so i haven't been paying too much attention to all this booster discussion. I am a physician and i received my 2 doses of the pfizer vaccine earlier...

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tangentially related, but i wonder how mohs' surgeons make their money. i know their collections are quite high, i've heard some mohs surgeons collecting...

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tangentially related, but is private equity buying up a lot of ortho practices like other fields of medicine, i.e. ophtho, retina, derm, radiology?

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let's say this indicator does give a fairly accurate prediction of stock market returns for the next few years...

how would an early career...

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obviously no one knows, but any thoughts on the feasibility of a trip to southern south america in february 2022? was hoping to go to patagonia (chile...

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this is a great explanation.

collections (real dollars collected by the practice) are what matters. billings/charges don't really matter...

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currently reading "battle cry of freedom" which is apparently the most comprehensive single book on the U.S. civil war. very good so far. the...

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i have been lifting regularly since college, and have been fortunate enough to be able to maintain 4-6 days of lifting throughout med school and training....

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you are a retina surgeon, correct?

i'd be curious to hear your response to the OP... are you happy with your choice of speciality?
...

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Hello all,

My parents are approaching age 65 in the next few months, and they will be retiring and going from their employer provided insurance...

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Hello all, hoping for some guidance.


First year attending, I did my first backdoor roth IRA for myself + wife in 2020 (6k each). In...

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also on a separate but related note, could anyone clarify if 401k to roth IRA conversions (qualified retirement plan converted to roth IRA) are entered...

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i appreciate the response, very much so.

i have been working my way through form 8606 and the instructions, and you are correct, it definitely...

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hello all,


as i am preparing to do my taxes for my wife and i, i realized i made a slight mistake regarding our backdoor roth IRA...

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no idea about the wait list time, but i got my concept2 erg rowing machine after about a week of checking this website. i checked it throughout the idea,...

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Thanks so much for all the responses. As an update, spouse and I went to a Honda dealership and Toyota dealership last weekend and test drove a few vehicles,...

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thank you all for the responses. yes we live in AZ, no idea where we will retire (hopefully thats 30ish years from now).

no plans for PSLF,...

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just wanted to follow up on this and see what you would do in my situation.

they are in a 401a (university of california target retirement...

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they are in a 401a (university of california target retirement fund, good fund, low ER) and a 401k (S&P 500 index fund, low ER) from training (finished...

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Hello all,

I'm a new attending, looking to buy a vehicle in the next few months. Currently wife and I are sharing her Nissan Sentra and also...

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yes i am in the process of doing so. finished training earlier this year so i am planning to convert ~30k in 401k/401a into roth IRAs before our tax bracket...

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Awesome thanks for the responses. Definitely aware I need to get this done this month, so working on it right now.

I know that with backdoor...

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Hello all,

I'm a new attending in a surgical specialty in private practice, graduated fellowship in June 2020, about 5 months into my PP...

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i recently purchased a row machine myself, and did a fair bit of research. i'm not super into rowing, having used the rowing machine at my local gym a...

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awesome, thank you both very much for the replies. it's now crystal clear for me. thank you again!!!

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a similar but unrelated question, piggybacking on this thread rather than starting a new one...

i am doing a backdoor roth ira for the first...

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Hello all,

I was hoping to get some input on choosing my health insurance plan. I completed training a few months ago and I'm 2 months into...

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Fair point. I will be contacting the state unemployment office soon.

Any ethical concerns about collecting unemployment, when I will basically...

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Hello all,

quick question. I was originally planning/told I would be starting my first job about 3 weeks after my final day of training as...

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Hello all,

Quick question. I am finishing up training in a few days and will be joining a 10 doctor private practice group on the other side...

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why do your posts consistently read so awkwardly? I’ve been noticing this for months....

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I wonder how this is going to effect private equity buying up medical practices. Was happening big time in my field (retina), as well as derm, rads, EM,...

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Thanks for the response and kind words.

Definitely a risk with adding him as an authorized user, but I do trust him (famous last words),...

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Hey all,

Asking on behalf of my brother.... no really, I am.

I myself am a fellow, about to finish training in a few months,...