Physician Family Financial Advisors Blog

"Are we saving enough?" You've asked your spouse some version of that question, probably more than once, and probably without landing on an answer eit...

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...

The recruiter mentions it near the end of the call, almost as an aside. "We also do loan repayment assistance." If you're finishing training with a ba...

You took the hospital job out of training partly because it was simple. Payroll ran itself. The health plan, the malpractice policy, the retirement ma...

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...

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...

Here's a question that comes up at physician dinner tables: "How much do we actually have?" Sometimes the person asking is the spouse who doesn't hand...

You've got a login somewhere for the 403(b) from residency. There's a 401(k) at the hospital where you did fellowship. There's probably a third accoun...

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...

Your signing bonus landed. Or maybe it was the quality bonus, or the year-end productivity payout you've watched accrue since spring. You opened the p...

You started at the hospital, sat through forty minutes of benefits onboarding, checked a box next to a contribution percentage, and moved on to creden...

You are four years into a hospitalist job at a nonprofit medical center. Forty-eight certified payments are sitting in your Federal Student Aid accoun...