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As a physician mom or dad, you put everything into your practice and your kids — so you want to do the right thing with the money you earn. This blog explores the topics that matter most to physician families: investing for retirement, saving for college, and raising financially responsible children.

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Long-Term Care Planning for Physician Families: Traditional Policies, Hybrid Policies, and Self-Funding insurance retirement planning Oct 29, 2026

You've probably watched it happen from the clinical side. A patient is medically ready for discharge but can't safely bathe or dress alone, and the fa...

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Retiring Before 65: How Physicians Bridge Health Coverage Until Medicare insurance retirement planning Oct 29, 2026

You've run the numbers, and they say you could stop working at 60. Maybe 58. Then a second thought shows up, usually late at night: "What do we do abo...

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Group Disability Through the Hospital vs. an Individual Policy: What Each One Actually Covers insurance physician career tax strategy Sep 23, 2026

Somewhere in the benefits packet you signed when you took your attending job, there was a line about long-term disability (LTD) coverage. The hospital...

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The Five Years Before You Stop Working: A Pre-Retirement Checklist for Physicians insurance retirement planning tax strategy Sep 23, 2026

You're somewhere between 55 and 65. You've been an attending for a couple of decades, and the question in your head has changed shape. It used to be "...

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Cutting Back to 0.8 FTE: The Financial Details Physicians Should Check First cash flow & budgeting insurance physician career Sep 23, 2026

You've run this in your head more than once. You'd work four days instead of five. You'd take a Wednesday at home, or a Friday, or whatever day your g...

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Benefits Open Enrollment for Physician Families: What to Actually Check Before the Deadline cash flow & budgeting insurance physician career Sep 23, 2026

The email shows up in your work inbox sometime in the fall. Open enrollment is here, the window is about three weeks, and there's a link to a portal y...

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Parental Leave for Physician Parents: Planning the Money Before the Baby Comes cash flow & budgeting insurance physician career Sep 23, 2026

You're four or five months out, or your spouse is, and the questions surfacing at ten at night have nothing to do with the nursery. How many weeks can...

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How Much Cash Should a Physician Family Keep? Emergency Funds and Where to Hold Them cash flow & budgeting insurance physician career Aug 18, 2026

You out-earn almost everyone you went to high school with. But you can still feel a small jolt in your chest when a $4,000 bill lands with no warning....

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Malpractice Tail Coverage: What Physicians Should Know Before Changing Jobs cash flow & budgeting insurance physician career Aug 18, 2026

You accepted the new position. The offer looked good, the commute is shorter, and the group seems like people you would want to work beside. Then some...

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The New-Baby Financial Checklist for Physician Parents cash flow & budgeting college savings insurance Aug 18, 2026

Congratulations! You just brought your new addition to the family home! You are also, in all likelihood, running on four hours of sleep and a granola ...

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Own-Occupation Disability Insurance: The Narrow Window Before Training Ends insurance physician career residency & fellowship Aug 18, 2026

You are in the last year of training. The signing bonus conversation is finally happening, the credentialing paperwork is stacking up, and somewhere i...

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Why Physicians Hear the Whole Life Insurance Pitch So Often (and How to Evaluate It) cash flow & budgeting insurance physician career Aug 18, 2026

The pitch usually arrives in one of a few ways. A colleague in your group mentions the person who handled their insurance and offers to make an introd...

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