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Should Recent Weather Events Impact Your Emergency Fund?

The Motivated MD

Though severe weather events like this used to feel like a ‘once in a decade’ tragedy, they are, statistically speaking, becoming more and more common. Should recent weather events impact your emergency fund? Should recent weather events impact your emergency fund? It happens. What Can We Learn From This?

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Permanente Live webinar — Finding success in value-based care

Permanente Medicine

This complimentary virtual event will feature a candid, strategic conversation with national health care leaders as they share their insights and best practices from proven value-based care models to help health systems, physician groups, and health plans navigate this critical transformation. PT / 11:30 a.m. CT / 12:30 p.m.

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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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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. Diversification works to smooth out risk events in a portfolio so that the gains in some investments help to combat the losses from others. Don’t try to beat the market; be the market. Higher risk, higher reward.

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Improving Patient Communication

CDOCS

& We participate within our dental community in educational meetings and events, which builds our trust in the specialist. ’ When working with a case that requires a combination of expertise from the general dentist and specialist, it is our job to be able to explain and provide understanding on all aspects of treatment.

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Motivation Monday Recap – October 7th, 2024

The Motivated MD

I am heartbroken for the communities affected by this storm and for our fellow healthcare providers who are either dealing with this in their personal lives or having to navigate recovery as part of their careers. The silver lining of a horrific event like this is the incredible humanity we witness in its aftermath.

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Practice tip of the week: Be an on-time physician

Physician's Practice

This April 2024 article by Neil Baum, MD , on being an on-time physician gives this tip: Instruct new patients to arrive 20-30 minutes before their appointment to fill out paperwork or complete the paperwork online if your website provides the forms for patient demographics and a health care questionnaire.