Unfortunately, medical training isn't free. With the substantial debt burden facing graduating medical students, it has become increasingly important to know how to navigate the choppy waters of personal finance. With sharks in the water, no training on personal finance, and little time to spare on such an important topic, this short primer aims to teach you only what you need to know about personal finance so that you can focus on taking good care of patients.
If you are ready to learn how to effectively pay down your student loans, invest efficiently, and achieve financial freedom early in your career - then this book is for you. Feel free to take a look at the introductory portion of the book through the "Look Inside" feature.
Turner has distilled his substantial knowledge and experience in personal finance into a no-nonsense book that a physician can easily read and und. Live Well. Enjoy Your Work.
Are you a physician fed up and ready to leave your healthcare career? It doesn't have to end that way.
Cory S. Fawcett lays out a number of smart alternatives and ways to repurpose your professional career so you can continue doing what you love about medicine and stop doing what you don't. If you are ready to leave medicine, read this book before you make your move.
Throughout his career, he's been passionate about helping doctors live healthy, happy, and debt-free lives and regain control of their practices, their time, and their finances. Fawcett is a consultant, speaker, award-winning author, and entrepreneur. The catheter was then sutured in place to the skin and a sterile dressing applied.
Perfusion to the extremity distal to the point of catheter insertion was checked and found to be adequate. Tags: Procedure Notes. The area was cleansed and draped in usual sterile fashion.
Four tubes were filled with 4 mL of CSF. These were sent for the usual tests, including 1 tube to be held for further analysis if needed. A finder needle was then used to locate fluid and clear yellow fluid was obtained. A blade scalpel used to make the incision. The thoracentesis catheter was then threaded without difficulty. A post-procedure chest x-ray was ordered and the fluid will be sent for several studies.
The author is Robert B. Taylor is the author and editor of more than 33 medical books. To see Dr. Instead, he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center.
The recipient of a scholarship designed to increase black student enrollment, Tweedy soon meets a professor who bluntly questions whether he belongs in medical school, a moment that crystallizes the challenges he will face throughout his career. Making matters worse, in lecture after lecture the common refrain for numerous diseases resounds, "More common in blacks than in whites. As Tweedy transforms from student to practicing physician, he discovers how often race influences his encounters with patients.
Through their stories, he illustrates the complex social, cultural, and economic factors at the root of many health problems in the black community.
These issues take on greater meaning when Tweedy is himself diagnosed with a chronic disease far more common among black people. In this powerful, moving, and deeply empathic book, Tweedy explores the challenges confronting black doctors, and the disproportionate health burdens faced by black patients, ultimately seeking a way forward to better treatment and more compassionate care. With the help of simple stories and parables, it changes your perception of money management from a complex chore that only financial wizards can master to a simple, commonsense exercise that you can easily undertake.
Every chapter in this book is based on personal finance principles, which when applied can make your financial life full of power, freedom and abundance. It is not written to engage a discerning reader or show-case the authors knowledge; this book is written to help you take action in your financial life.
It will show you exactly how to change your relationship with money and make your financial life simple; it will help you to understand the guiding principles of personal finance and bring about a change in your financial situation; it will guide you towards making your financial life more organized.
In a nutshell, it will help you shift gears and start on an exciting journey of wealth creation the only plea that runs through the book is that you must take action!
Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare exposes a vast conspiracy of political maneuvering and corporate greed that has led to the replacement of qualified medical professionals by lesser trained practitioners.
This is a story that has not yet been told, and one that has dangerous repercussions for all Americans. With the rate of nurse practitioner and physician assistant graduates exceeding that of physician graduates, if you are not already being treated by a non-physician, chances are, you soon will be.
While advocates for these professions insist that research shows that they can provide the same care as physicians, patients do not know the whole truth: that there are no credible scientific studies to support the safety and efficacy of non-physicians practicing without physician supervision. Written by two physicians who have witnessed the decline of medical expertise over the last twenty years, this data-driven book interweaves heart-rending true patient stories with hard data, showing how patients have been sacrificed for profit by the substitution of non-physician practitioners.
Adding a dimension neglected by modern healthcare critiques such as An American Sickness, this book provides a roadmap for patients to protect themselves from medical harm. As mega corporations push for efficiency and tout consumer focused retail services, American healthcare is being dumbed down to the point of no return. It's a story that many media outlets are missing and one that puts you and your family's health at real risk. The authors' extensively researched book methodically lays out the problems of our changing medical care landscape and solutions to ensure quality care.
Singleton, MD, JD A masterful job of bringing to light a rapidly growing issue of what should be great concern to all of us: the proliferation of non-physician practitioners that work predominantly inside algorithms rather than applying years of training, clinical knowledge, and experience.
Instead of a patient-first mentality, we are increasingly met with the sad statement of Profits Over Patients, echoed by hospitals and health insurance companies.
As a resident, finding reliable, relevant, and succinct financial advice can be challenging. That's why we created MD in the Black, a personal finance resource specifically for medical residents. This book answers residents' most pressing financial questions, including: Should I pursue Public Service Loan Forgiveness?
Do I really need to buy disability insurance? Should I use extra money to invest or pay back loans? What investments and accounts should I choose? How do I find reliable financial advice? So, we agree that books are not sufficient for success on your clerkships, but they are still an incredible resource that you should tap into. Lets review the best books and resources for your Internal Medicine rotation. These lists come from both my experience and also from one medical school's annual survey of its graduating medical students who try to detail which resources were the most useful on their rotations.
There are actually a number of great resources to help you prepare for the internal medicine rotation and shelf exam. The exam will focus heavily on inpatient internal medicine but you can not completely disregard the outpatient material. The reputation of the Step-Up series for the medicine rotation is tried an true. It has been a stable of medical student study lists for decades and continues to produce a well-recieved review manual that I consider as close to a 'must-have' as there is in the third year of medical school.
This book was a collaboration of the American College of Physicians in conjunction with the Internal Medicine clerkship directors from across the country.
The clerkship directors lay out a plan to succeed while on your medicine rotation. As you might expect, the content is very relevant and is generally ranked very highly by students.
Most students agree that the case-based CaseFiles series is very good for the medicine shelf exam. I would rate this book very highly and feel like it was specifically responsible for a few correct answers on my shelf exam.
So, we can agree that books are not sufficient for success on your clerkships, but they are still an incredible resource that you should tap into. Let's review the best books and resources for your Family Medicine rotation. Family Medicine is a difficult rotation to study for because it emcompasses nearly all of medicine. As such, it is difficult to narrow down resources to study from. My best advice is to focus on the medical aspects of family medicine. The American Academy of Family Physicians provides free membership to all medical students.
With membership, you have access to great online board review questions. These are certainly not a sufficient study tool, but they are very good questions. If you have not yet purchased this book for your Internal Medicine rotation, you probably will as it is the most highly recommended for that clerkship.
In it there is a great section on ambulatory medicine that is highly relevant to the Family Medicine rotation. The Family Medicine book from the CaseFiles series is very highly rated by medical students. I found the cases to be broad in their categories but deep in their explanations. I recommend it highly. This is probably the best available question bank that will prepare you for the breadth and depth of the Family Medicine shelf exam. Third Year , Pediatrics , Pediatrics Rotation.
Let's review the best books and resources for your Pediatrics rotation. Studying for the pediatrics rotation is not nearly as daunting as other rotations because the material is better partitioned than the more broad rotations. You will have to know both inpatient and outpatient peds very well, but do not spend all your time memorizing milestones, vaccine schedules, and inpatient conversions.
There are quite a large number of highly rated books for this rotation, so choose one that fits your learning style. I remember questions on my shelf that were near duplicates of PreTest questions; this is high yeild material. It is not, however, sufficient for your shelf.
You must find a more complete text to study from as well. This is a very complete text and highlights well both the inpatient and outpatient concepts in pediatric medicine. If you have time to get through and remember the information in this text it will lead to a good score on the shelf.
A well written book that is highly regarded by students. There is nothing special about this particular volume of the Case Files Series, but if you like the series this is a good bet. This is an interesting addition to our Best Books list. Students in my medical school and on annual book surveys rave about this book.
It is a bit outdated last edition printed in so I did not read it, but even though it is older, students still swear by it. Third Year , Neurology , Neurology Rotation. Let's review the best books and resources for your Neurology rotation. Not every medical student will have to complete a neurology rotation during the third year. Therefore, the number of survey responses is a bit less than with the major six rotations.
The American Academy of Neurology AAN provides students with a very good clerkship review in the form of a question quiz. A few medical schools will provide this service to their students. A solid addition to the Blueprints library, the Neurology volume can be considered a stand-alone review manual for the neurology shelf exam. I would supplement the information in this book with a good question bank either online or in print format. It is difficult to find quality questions for any shelf exam, and the neurology exam in particular.
This q-bank is solid and would be a great companion to the Blueprints text. Obstetrics and Gynecology is one of those rotations that has very little to do with other rotations. Therefore, you can not rely on your knowledge from other clerkships or the first two years of medical school to impress on rounds and do well on the shelf exam. Luckily, there is a wealth of good texts and question banks for this unique clerkship. One good text in combination with good question should be sufficient if you spend enough time studying.
If your medical school has access to the qbank you are in luck because it is a great resource. If your school does not subscribe, you sould ask them to, because the cost to you might be a bit too high to handle. As obstetrics and gynecology is nearly independent from all other specialties, it is important to read a complete text, not just rely on question banks. However, though I really like this text, in my opinion it should not be thought of as sufficient.
Normally, students would not have time or desire to read a complete text for one clerkship. Let's review the best books and resources for your General Surgery rotation. Explains the different types of savings accounts and retirement plans Offers insights on managing and funding your retirement accounts Details efficient withdrawal strategies that could help you maintain a comfortable retirement lifestyle Addresses essential estate planning and gifting issues With The Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning, you'll discover exactly what it takes to secure your financial future, today.
When it comes to money management, most of us take a hands-off approach because we're just not confident that we have the know-how needed. But personal finance is actually more personal than it is finance. Tim Maurer has made a career out of distilling complex financial concepts into understandable, doable actions.
In this eminently practical book, he shows readers how to - better understand their values and goals in order to simplify their money decisions - budget major expenses intelligently - reduce and eliminate debt - make vital decisions on home, auto, and life insurance - establish a world-class investment portfolio - craft a workable retirement plan - and more Readers will be relieved to see that managing their money is actually not as complicated as they thought--and that they can take control of their financial future starting today.
Yet every year, thousands of doctors across the nation set out to launch their very own practices with little to no knowledge of what it truly takes to run a successful business. In this book, Dr. Edwin Williams reveals secrets that can help physicians at any level of their career attain success in launching and operating their own practice with complete confidence. Using examples and anecdotes from his own life, Dr. Williams takes readers through an intricate journey, outlining essential components that will help physicians kick-start and sustain a sturdy practice.
Leveraging his advice, readers can sidestep hurdles, avoid errors, and dodge costly mistakes, all while launching a business that breeds success for the present Building on his own life experience, Dr.
Edwin Williams has crafted an excellent and important book that should be required reading for every physician aspiring to start or already running a private practice.
By the time they realize their career in clinical medicine isn't everything they thought it would be, many physicians believe they're too invested in their trade to turn back now.
Feeling burned out, disengaged, unfulfilled or burdened by high student debt or compensation incommensurate with the demands of their job, they may feel trapped, without options and with nowhere to turn.
While providing an escape from the stressors of clinical medicine, the book also allays much of the potential guilt associated with "selling out" their chosen profession or abandoning patients by explaining how each physician's training and talents directly translate to patient care outside of clinical medicine. And while other authors encourage physicians to start their own business, Stacy focuses on full-time positions that don't require the reader to begin their own consulting business or find their own clients.
On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong—with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, Jerome Groopman pinpoints the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make.
Groopman explores why doctors err and shows when and how they can—with our help—avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. This book is the first to describe in detail the warning signs of erroneous medical thinking and reveal how new technologies may actually hinder accurate diagnoses.
How Doctors Think offers direct, intelligent questions patients can ask their doctors to help them get back on track. He has learned many of the lessons in this book the hard way, from his own mistakes and from errors his doctors made in treating his own debilitating medical problems. How Doctors Think reveals a profound new view of twenty-first-century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.
In , after thirteen years of providing investment advice for Smith Barney, Bill Schultheis wrote a simple book for people who felt overwhelmed by the stock market.
He had discovered that when you simplify your investment decisions, you end up getting better returns. As a bonus, you gain more time for family, friends, and other pursuits. The Coffeehouse Investor explains why we should stop thinking about top-rated stocks and mutual funds, shifts in interest rates, and predictions for the economy.
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