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Summer 2025 Reading: Best Career Development and Motivational Books

Barton Associates

The best way to do so is in a stress-free way, like picking up a book—more specifically, career development and motivational books. This type of book provides reflection and learning, creating the essential framework for success whether you’re a student or CEO. What are the best self-improvement books?

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How Doctors Should Address Lifestyle Creep

The Motivated MD

Though I adhere to commonly agreed upon personal finance advice such as living ‘like a resident’ and well below your means, if you are overly frugal, you will deprive yourself of the enjoyment that is deserved when your income grows. Expensive Hobbies The last culprit I commonly see pressure finances are expensive hobbies.

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Lessons Learned From My Hiatus

The Motivated MD

My passion for writing personal finance content was losing way to productivity and the compulsion to keep up with my competitors. Commonly I felt like I was just reiterating what so many others in the physician finance niche were saying while feeling like I had somehow already addressed the topic. Anyone can do it.

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Be The Market: How Doctors Should Invest Their Money

The Motivated MD

As I continue onward in my journey writing a physician finance guide one chapter at a time, I wanted to tackle investing. I will dedicate a chapter to real estate investing later in this book. Here are a few reasons: Overwhelmingly, index funds have lower expense ratios because they are passively managed. This saves you money.

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Choosing to Rent or Buy a Home in 2025

The Motivated MD

This marks the 10th chapter of our Doctor Money finance series, which I hope to complete and formally turn into a publishable book or e-book in the not-too-distant future. It shows that you can manage a large debt and make payments regularly without defaulting. Stay tuned! This can help build your credit.

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Are your patients satisfied?

Physician's Practice

He has written a book, What’s Going on Down There? He has written ten books on practice management and the business of medicine. He has authored or co-authored over 250 articles that have appeared in peer-reviewed medical publications on various urologic topics as well as articles on practice management.

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Pearls profiles: Get to know Neil Baum, MD

Physician's Practice

Reynolds Feature Video Introducing Neil Baum, MD, Professor of Clinical Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the author of multiple books. He has written a book, What’s Going on Down There? He has written ten books on practice management and the business of medicine.