Hopeful Doc

[quote]3) Medicare for all.[/quote] I know that healthcare is frustrating and broke, but this deserves attention: Medicare currently requires premiums, copays, and deductibles. It has cut physician reimbursement significantly over the last two decades. When they say “Medicare for all,” they (...

Too vague. Why am I having either? I’d rather a CABG than attempt resection of GBM. I’d probably rather a laminectomy than an MVR. I probably would rather a TAVR over a transphenoid sella resection. ...

[quote] But your house is probably 10x nicer. [/quote] Our home cost us 1x our annual income Our vehicles combine to 20% (we have a 10 year old (small) SUV, a 7 year old pickup, and a 20-year old sports car). I have no complaints of my own belongings or conditions and am lucky to be whe...

Answer: be comfortable with debt. My wife and I are both doctors and can’t pull the trigger on a 3rd row SUV because I just can’t get over the price. She easily drives the least nice car of any of the doctors in her practice, and many of the nurses drive nicer ones than her. Heck, half the...

I prefer the Ciel which looks like it is never going to arrive, and this looks like the replacement (that will probably never come, based on how the Ciel and its hardtop counterpart were announced and hyped year after year with no real development outside of The Entourage Movie)...

Sous vide a turkey breast with a little salt, pepper, rosemary, 1-2 slices of lemon, olive oil, make stuffing, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole 3 times a year and invite your in laws over to drink too much and argue while you watch football, baseball, the Olympics, or hockey depending on which ...

[quote]thats what she tells you, so you arent suspicious of him drilling her daily[/quote] I only pretend to have a wife to seem cool on the internet. ...

[quote]I know it’s cool on TD to dump on your wife[/quote] Alright, frick it. I’ll kink shame. This is gross. ...

[quote] She takes over, she wins easily.[/quote] I’m not sure I understand her list of qualifications: 1) black 2) female 3) former First Lady of a particularly popular president (not suggesting I liked him or he was great or that he didn’t have many people who disliked him) 4) changed scho...

[quote]the other thing you have to remember is (other than the Covid payment pause), these people DID make payments.[/quote] Very, very true. [quote]Sometimes you see very high “forgiveness” numbers because PSLF requires you to be on an income-based repayment plan and those payments may not...