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I was on a friend’s video chat yesterday with people I generally enjoy speaking with, but are also a little bit much. They tend to talk over each other and everyone is accustomed to being the star of the show. This doesn’t bother me , as I am quiet by nature. But it could be
I have been religiously reading the White Coat Investor (WCI) blog for a few years now. The information I have learned there has guided a huge number of my personal and professional decisions. I now teach personal finance to the house officers and students who take an elective practice management rotation and have gotten positive
Interacting with other humans is hard. As a culture, we have a terrible time determining if someone is telling the truth or lying. The handshake originated as a way to determine that the other person doesn’t have a weapon they could use against you. In veterinary medicine, we will often shake hands when meeting someone
Some pretty good improvement in the past year! It looks like the search engines are sending people this way when they look for advice on applications, which is terrific. Three years ago, March 2019, I launched The Vetducator blog. A lot of blogs fold within a year or two, but I’m still writing and enthusiastic
All my professional life, I have ended up with more money at the end of the year than I started with. I didn’t really know why or what to do with this until I found Mr. Money Mustache. I have since become passionate about personal finance, and teach the vet students and house officers at
…But you can’t do EVERYTHING you want. I first heard this principle applied to high-income professionals with respect to their personal finances and I love it. I use it when I teach the senior vet students about personal finances. If you want, you can: 1) Live in LA, 2) Buy a new BMW, 3) Send
This is a guest post from a reader at ourbestfriends.pet who reached out to me recently. Since those who progress through veterinary medicine- especially going into advanced training- move so frequently, I thought it was a good topic. Going from undergrad, to vet school, to internship, to residency, to a faculty position usually involves at
One of the first posts I ever put onto this site was to Aim for Zero, a principle I encountered reading a book by astronaut Chris Hadfield. That was more than two years ago, and ever since I have continued to find this advice sound and universal. So many times I see people trying to
During M&M rounds, we will examine some fictitious cases and evaluate the facts and consider some solutions to these problems. Gary is a 21-year-old Caucasian male who presented for not being a reasonable freaking human being. Lisa is a 26-year-old Asian-American female who presented for the same. The symptoms for Gary include yelling at customer
One of my favorite blogs, the White Coat Investor, did Morbidity and Mortality rounds for one reader’s finances. I think it’s a neat way to process information and present it to you in a format familiar to veterinary medicine. For those who don’t know, in medicine we do M&M rounds when something goes wrong. Usually,