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Edward Ziegler, takes you into the often crazy world of the emergency department of Bellevue Hospital. In each chapter, Dr. Ziegler tells the story of a different encounter with a patient in the emergency department. The encounters are exciting, shocking and entertaining. Some stories are tragic while others are funny. For a pre-medical student, the stories are thrilling and interesting — a great sneak peek into the frontlines of medicine. Better, by Atul Gawande, M. Better contains several essays and is divided into three main sections.

It takes a look at various issues with healthcare including insurance, lawsuits and more. Jain, and Gordon Harper, M. The Soul of a Doctor is a book containing several dozen accounts of medical students all collected and put together in this book. It takes you to a time before physicians are tired, jaded and upset with the system that created them and shows the growth of these physicians in training. One of the first books I read about medical school, this book takes an interesting look at what life is like as an intern.

Med School Confidential, by Robert H. Miller and Daniel M. Another book with strong reviews on amazon. In Stitches, by Anthony Youn, M. A memoir from Dr. Youn, a plastic surgeon, writer and television personality. This book takes you through his life on the way to becoming the physician he is today. This book recommended based on strong reviews from amazon. The House of God is a classic — a book published in but an important read for any pre-medical or medical student.

Samuel Shem takes us on a thrilling journey into his life as an intern at one of the premier teaching hospitals in Boston.

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Through his vivid writing, you meet his fellow interns, the residents who supervise and teach him, and the nurses he works with and lusts after. His daydreams sometimes appear to bleed into his reality with fantasy and sexual encounters. He and his fellow doctors struggle with difficult cases and tragic circumstances which change their lives forever. Avoiding the risk of creating a tome as my first post I have decided to break this down into multiple posts I did warn you I made a lot of mistakes , trying to keep it in chronological order.

Not concerned with financial education throughout college, med school, residency, and early attending years. Some of this fault lays with the educational system in the training of a doctor and the track you are supposed to take. Throughout my premedical years I followed the standard path of taking the basic requirements for gaining medical school entry, heavily on the sciences and not much else.

This continued throughout medical school and residency. Even as a medical student this was before the credit crisis I graduated in , credit companies and banks bent over backwards giving you vast amounts of credit which made it feel as if I actually drew that as a salary rather than digging deeper into debt. I thought I found a way to cheat the system. Consumerism is an appropriate term, for one truly gets consumed financially if one gives into every desire.

Why pay today when you can put it off for tomorrow? My first real paying job started with my residency program. For the first time I officially was a doctor, with a newly minted MD after my name. With this money, I had my first opportunity to start paying back some of these loans. Sadly the answer was no. I deserve to spend this money and enjoy what little free time I had.

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So with every loan I had to my name I tried to get a deferment which was the lesser of two evils where at least interest does not accumulate and the remainder I had to receive forbearance where interest continues to accumulate during the nonpayment period. And accumulate that interest did.

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This financial anchor was eventually paid on May 22, I was so proud of this accomplishment that I posted it on my Facebook page. What was so significant about this date was that it was exactly 17 years to the day that I graduated medical school and received an MD, and almost 22 years when I first became indentured to Sallie Mae, et all. My first official entry into the Blogosphere of personal finance. I hope I have piqued your interest and you continue to follow this blog and my journey to make some contributions to this niche.

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There is definitely a learning curve and hopefully these initial baby steps will graduate to running and eventually flying keeping with the Xrayvsn theme. Welcome to this episode of The Doctor's Bill Can[ Welcome to this session of grand rounds, a[ Webster's dictionary defines Arbitrage as: Thank you so much. Good luck with your new venture. I intend to visit often as long as you keep the blog informative and interesting. I really appreciate it. I will hopefully try to keep the content interesting, there are quite a few I am very proud of coming down the line.

Thank you so much for the kinds words. I have definitely been passionate about this. In two weeks I wrote 27 posts total and poured a lot of my heart and soul in it. If you do find the content getting dull let me know. Always open to any suggestions. Welcome to the world of Physician bloggers! Means a ton coming from of the giants in the physician blog world.

A deadly combination in the blogosphere. I hope you stick around and follow some of my upcoming posts my financial mistakes series I believe is 5 posts total and I really do make a ton of mistakes. Wow those are crazy colors! That is a mind blowing debt you had. Well done to eliminate that. Thank you so much for the compliment.

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Yeah digging out of debt was a slow and steady progress. Being blessed with a high paying profession was a start but I am sure you, as well I, know people that despite having high incomes never take the steps to get rid of debt. I hope to give an example that you can make a ton of mistakes but still be able to overcome them especially with a physician salary.

Radiologist here as well almost 3 years out trying to get last 90k of k in student loans paid off. Enjoyed reading the post as well as the cool colors. My eyes like the dark background! Thanks so much Lee. It is funny, but now that you mention it I really think because I am acclimated to a dark work environment I subconsciously chose a dark palette.