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Start strong: Financial do’s and don’ts for med students and early-career physicians

By The DO Staff

04.14.22

I know, I know … it sounds a bit paradoxical to tell physicians to start their careers with sound financial decisions when they just voluntarily sacrificed more than a decade of earning power in training while borrowing hundreds of thousands of dollars to enter a field with increasing regulation, a compensation bubble about to burst and an overall trend toward accepting the high tax burden of employment in exchange for ‘security.’