The Money Blog

In an earlier article, I asked you to calculate your net worth by subtracting your liabilities from your assets.

What is an asset? The simplest definition is an object or financial product...

Years ago, I attended a seminar on focus, wondering what the big deal was and how someone could be a “focus specialist”. 

The speaker started by asking how many key roles...

As I mentioned in a previous communication, many of us feel that we are “always on” and accessible to our personal and practice networks.

I love my smartphone and consider it...

I once had a nursing manager that started as an ideal worker whom I promoted up the ranks. As time moved on and I continued to expand and innovate the processes of the clinic, I felt more and more...

In an earlier post, I discussed taking stock of our current financial lives by setting up an annual calculation of net worth.

This week, I want to encourage you to glimpse at your financial...

In our daily clinical practice, we check our patients’ vital signs all the time. What about “checking the vitals” of your own practice? 

Just like for human beings,...

One of the central themes we cover at Physician Empowerment is the notion that many of us, regardless of practice background, always feel that we are “on”. 

Whether this is...

Most of us understand that we should delegate most tasks for maximum efficiency and throughput except the ones that only we can perform. However, the most common mistake of Delegation is...

One of the most fundamental exercises in personal finance is an annual calculation of household net worth. 

Typically, in the summer following our household’s corporate year ends, I stop...

The academic and professional worlds measure success almost exclusively on IQ (a.k.a. Scholastic Intelligence) with yardsticks like:

• GPAs 
• degrees, 
• titles, 
• academic positions,...

The pandemic brought immense changes to our practices. Whether we are hospital or clinic-based, many of us are working more hours at home. While this may not always entail video-based clinics, we...

Whether we like it or not, we physicians are being rated everyday either individually or as a profession-- from the popular RateMD website which many patients frequent, to PAR (Peer Assessment...