Stage 1 — income & discipline. Escape the income cycle.
There is a familiar physician archetype in almost every medical community. They have been practicing for twenty or thirty years. Their lifestyle is comfortable but not extravagant. They rarely talk…
The Surgeon Who Was Quietly Standing Still A colleague of mine, a surgeon at the top of his field, once told me, almost proudly, that he kept “a healthy cushion”…
At 6:17 on a Tuesday morning, a physician I’ll call David sits in his car in the hospital parking garage. The engine is off. His hands are still on the…
A cardiologist I know once told me, almost in passing, that he couldn’t afford to stop working. He earns more than seven hundred thousand dollars a year. I remember pausing,…
Subscribe here to my Substack to read this article and more. The Comfortable Pattern Most professionals are not financially stuck because they lack intelligence, ambition, or opportunity. They are stuck because…