Ep 38. Doc G (part 2) Getting to 5X income as an internist in a competitive market

Doc G  This is a 2 part episode, so make sure you also listened to episode 37 (part 1) first How did this internal medicine physician achieve a high net worth ($6M) at a young age? How was he able to 5X his income from the time he started practicing to now as a primary care physician in a large metro area? Many physicians are resigned to the work, work, work mentality but don’t have a plan to increase their professional income. Investing is great and passive income is fantastic, but why not get paid appropriately for what you trained all these years for? Doc G talks about how he learned to optimize his workflow at all stages in his career and was constantly assessing what brought him income and joy and tried to remove those parts of his practice that didn’t. While we are constantly learning about medicine via journals, conferences, presentations, etc, how many of you are consistently optimizing your own practice? It’s important because it will bring you greater job satisfaction and decrease burnout. The corporate practices do this but not for your benefit, so its vital that you assess how you practice. It’s also great to see that primary care physicians can become very successful financially in this era of medicine. Let’s continue the discussion over at the Doctor Money Matters private FB group (you need to request membership). You can follow Doc G’s blog at www.diversefi.com where he goes into depth on these topics. You can also follow him on twitter @DocGDiversefi This is the rockstar finance ranking of the bloggers by net worth. 4 of the top 5 are physicians, but Doc G is one of the younger ones. One of our previous guests is also on there. Dr. Cory Fawcett. (Episode 5 about debt) Follow me: Twitter @drmoneymatters Instagram @doctormoneymatters Facebook @doctormoneymatters

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Welcome to the Doctor Money Matters podcast. I am your host Dr. Tarang Patel, a practicing diagnostic radiologist in Phoenix, AZ. I started this podcast as a way to share knowledge about financial matters as they relate to health care professionals. We spent many years learning about the science and art of providing patient care but most of us have relatively little knowledge about reaching financial well being. I know that I had no formal training in setting up investment accounts, negotiating contracts, buying insurance, buying real estate, etc. I just learned by reading and also by making many mistakes. Health care professionals are trusted to take put their patients needs first and we in turn assume everyone in other fields work the same way. Unfortunately this is not always true. By talking about these topics, I hope we can reduce the many financial mistakes that prior generations of doctors have made. Those physicians were able to overcome these mistakes because of shorter training periods, less debt, and they were more likely to be in private practice. Today we no longer have those luxuries and many of us have significant debt burdens. The good news is that we also have access to information that the prior generation never had. A little background about me. As I said before I am a practicing radiologist in Phoenix, AZ. I went to undergrad at Indiana U. (Go Hoosiers), medical school at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (Now AT Still Univ) in Missouri, moved east and did my radiology residency at New York Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. I then moved west to serve my Air Force commitment at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, NV. I then did a fellowship in Body/Musculoskeletal Imaging at Mayo Clinic Arizona. Since I finished training I have been in a hospital employed group for the last 6 years. I have always enjoyed learning about finance and have read (listened to) many of the financial books. I also spent time reading on the bogleheads.org forum which I found to be a valuable source of information. Finally I just observed that many of my colleagues and I had the same questions about relatively basic financial matters but it was difficult to find clear answers. Hopefully you find these podcasts useful. I encourage you to subscribe to them, that way you will be updated when any episodes are released automatically. Also please let your friends and colleagues know about this podcast. Please give us good feedback on iTunes, Google Play and stitcher and if you have suggestions on topics or how to improve the podcast please send your emails to comments@doctormoneymatters.com Social media links: twitter @drmoneymatters Facebook www.facebook.com/doctormoneymatters/ Please understand that this show is for entertainment and education only and you should do your own research and speak with the appropriate experts prior to making any changes in regards to material you may have heard on the show. The opinions from the guests on this show are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the host or of Doctor Money Matters, LLC.