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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

Because healthcare professionals are among the most trusted voices in society—and that trust extends beyond medical advice into public health, wellness, and environmental sustainability. Use My Green Doctor’s Free Patient Education Resources Download and display environmental health brochures in your waiting room.

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How Doctors Should Address Lifestyle Creep

The Motivated MD

Housing Aside from educational debt, housing is commonly the largest expense we will make in our lives. However, take the remainder of your pay raise (the other 90%) and use it to make sure you are maxing out all of your retirement accounts, paying down debt, saving for children’s education, and investing. You deserve it.

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Lessons Learned From My Hiatus

The Motivated MD

Last, but not least, I genuinely felt as if I was running out of ways to provide useful and entertaining financial content. I don’t mean it in the sense that no matter who you are or your educational background you can reach all your wildest financial goals. How you choose to self-educate beyond that is up to you!

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Be The Market: How Doctors Should Invest Their Money

The Motivated MD

So, with this chapter, I hope to briefly touch on the basics of market investing and describe why simple diversification and index fund investing are the most effective ways for busy clinical physicians and healthcare providers to invest with the expectation of long-term gains. Don’t try to beat the market; be the market. We simply cannot.

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When Should Doctors Begin Investing in Real Estate?

The Motivated MD

With a significant portion of our income now free from the shackles of educational debt, we can entertain new ways to invest our earnings and grow our wealth. I am seriously considering it however, so I figured I would do some self-education and explore when should doctors being investing in real estate? As always… Stay motivated!

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Choosing to Rent or Buy a Home in 2025

The Motivated MD

Use the rules provided above to determine what is right for you. The education alone, learning how different variables affect affordability, can help you better grasp the factors at play and how you can use them to your advantage. I do not provide nor engage in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional services.

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Should Recent Weather Events Impact Your Emergency Fund?

The Motivated MD

Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. I do not mean to paint such a grim picture, but I want to provide a healthy dose of realism. Perhaps the lesson lies in collegiality, comradery, and helping your fellow man. Stay motivated!