At The White Coat Investor we often talk about risks and costs, usually in terms of the potential to make money or the possibility of losing it. As the first female commercial astronaut to fly into space last year, I think a little differently about risk. Achieving my lifelong goal of going to space was […]
S This may seem like an unusual post for a website primarily aimed at physicians and those already in the pipeline to become physicians. But I have a surprising number of pre-med students who read the blog, and I hope this post will help them long before they get a $400,000 student loan to become […]
The medical school admissions process is one of the highest-stakes application processes in higher education. According to the AAMC, in 2024, only 44.58% of applicants received an acceptance letter from at least one MD program in the US. The rest had to study another year, rewrite essays, retake the MCAT and delay entry into a […]
While I was in college around 2010, I researched and visited a surgeon to explore my interest in a career in medicine and surgery. He told me that as a woman I had to make a choice between being a mother and becoming a surgeon. I was shocked to get this answer, seemingly in the […]
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By Dr. Jim Dahle, founder of WCI I am often told, usually by an experienced physician, that other physicians owe something to society, usually in exchange for the cost of their training. This is in response to several scenarios. It could be: Someone retires early Someone who works part-time A doctor having a baby or […]