Physician Family Financial Advisors Blog

You started at the hospital, sat through forty minutes of benefits onboarding, checked a box next to a contribution percentage, and moved on to creden...

You are four years into a hospitalist job at a nonprofit medical center. Forty-eight certified payments are sitting in your Federal Student Aid accoun...

You out-earn almost everyone you went to high school with. But you can still feel a small jolt in your chest when a $4,000 bill lands with no warning....

You accepted the new position. The offer looked good, the commute is shorter, and the group seems like people you would want to work beside. Then some...

The Question That Shows Up Every March

You and your spouse have filed jointly since the year you got married. Nobody questioned it. Then one of you l...

Congratulations! You just brought your new addition to the family home! You are also, in all likelihood, running on four hours of sleep and a granola ...

You are in the last year of training. The signing bonus conversation is finally happening, the credentialing paperwork is stacking up, and somewhere i...

There is money left over at the end of the month. Maybe not a lot, but it's there. And every few weeks the same question comes back to you: should tha...

The Paycheck That Arrives Whole

The first locum shift payment, or the first medical-director stipend, or the first expert-witness fee, tends to land ...

You spent more than a decade learning medicine and roughly zero hours learning employment law. Then a PDF lands in your inbox with your name on it, tw...

Your Mix Drifts Even When You Never Touch It

You picked a mix once. Maybe it was the year you finished training and finally had real money going into...

You are 54, you have been an attending for two decades, and for years the catch-up contribution was one of the few tax decisions that took no thought ...