Season 3 Episode 12 of The Doctors and Dollars podcast: In this episode of Doctors & Dollars, Jordan chats with Dr. Shitel Patel and Dr. Tuan Truong. They are plastic surgeons and partners in a private practice in Houston, Texas. We talk a lot about the ins and outs of starting and running a private practice. Even more so, however, we talk about running a practice with friends being partners...not an easy feat always! Lastly, Drs. Patel and Truong are also founders of AdVital, a business that helps physicians automate their practices to maximize patient catchment and retention. The th ..read more

Season 3 Episode 11 of The Doctors and Dollars podcast: Dr Allie Massaro is a Neuro-intensivist in Seattle, Washington. She is four years out of training and has a frugal streak. She has paid off all her school loans and is now venturing into real estate. Her husband, Schuyler Cadwalader, is an architect by training. He is now a full time real estate investor and manages their first property, an 8 unit multifamily apartment building. We discuss their rationale behind real estate investing, active management, buying three thousand miles from their home base, their family support and a lot more ..read more

Season 3 Episode 10 of The Doctors and Dollars podcast: Dr Ali Alavi is a midcareer urologist in Southern California. After almost 2 decades in private practice, he started a company to manufacture sublingual vitamins. His ‘why’ for this project was his son who has autism. After many years of struggling with the unique nutritional and gut-brain issues faced by children with autism, Dr Alavi decided to embark on this venture to help all those who were affected by similar issues. He describes the monumental tasks of establishing a forty thousand square foot mostly automated manufacturing plant f ..read more

Season 3 Episode 9 of The Doctors and Dollars podcast: Dr Meera Kirpekar and Dr Alopi Patel are anesthesiologists with a sub-specialization in pain medicine. They met in training and are now academic attending physicians in New York. They are also co-hosts of a podcast called ‘The Hurt’ by The Female Pain Doctors. They have released one season so far and are recording the second. Their podcast primarily deals with pain issues in female patients. While they have always been involved with social media, this podcast has given their respective practices a healthy boost. It has also increased their ..read more

Season 3 Episode 8 of The Doctors and Dollars podcast: Dr Degha Fongod is an internal medicine physician in Northern Virginia. Following a brief stint as an employed physician in Louisiana, she started her own private practice. This has now blossomed into a full cash aesthetic procedure practice with about twenty percent patients seeing her for primary care as well. We talk about the small details of running a private practice including leasing versus buying the office building and equipment equipment, automating appointments directly from the EMR and educating her patients about pricing and c ..read more

Season 3 Episode 7 of The Doctors and Dollars podcast: Dr Sam Giordano is a gastroenterologist who is 10 years out of training. He lives in New Jersey with his wife who is a cardiologist. His recent awakening about his personal finances came in 2017 when deductions for state and local income taxes were eliminated. He spent a year educating himself about other forms of investments above and beyond his retirement and taxable brokerage accounts. He toyed with direct rentals as well as turnkey real estate investments. Eventually, he settled on investing in syndicated real estate deals. He has now ..read more

Season 3 Episode 6 of The Doctors and Dollars podcast: Dr Jessica Daigle is a pediatrician who primarily works in a NICU. She is seven years out of training with about $200K of school loans. She has a lot going for her with a medical directorship at her hospital, a locum side gig and plans to start an in-home care program for newborns and their moms. She has just started dipping her toes into the world of retirement plans and physician personal finance. She is starting to educate herself about 529s and Kid Roth IRAs for her two children. Her husband is a full time home builder. Jessica has jus ..read more

Season 3 Episode 5 of The Doctors and Dollars podcast: This episode features Dr Cory Fawcett, a retired surgeon. Dr Fawcett is well known to many of us from his activities in the area of real estate investment, financial independence and early retirement. However, this interview shows a personal side of this life coach. He talks about how he was burnt out and what strategies he used to cope while planning his eventual exit from medicine. Some great pearls about how to avoid bitterness from unsatisfactory interpersonal interactions and how to focus on the positives in one’s life.  The thir ..read more

Season 3 Episode 4 of The Doctors and Dollars podcast: This episode features Jennifer Mogan, an anesthesiologist who is 15 years into her career in Rochester, New York. She used the drop in patient volume and down time during the pandemic to learn about a new field, completely unrelated to medicine. She has educated herself about Payment Processing, which is something Jordan and Vijay were clueless about. As it turns out, both hosts use this service in some form or the other in their practices but were unaware of the details. Jennifer has added this side gig as an account executive for an all ..read more

Season 3 Episode 3 of The Doctors and Dollars podcast: Vijay is on the road again and Jordan has this episode all to himself. He chats with New York City based physician Paul Leis. Paul is a freshly graduated internist. He enlightens us about the sixty-four thousand dollar question: How can one live in a HCOL (High Cost of Living) area and still find money to invest? Jordan has spent many years living there during his training. They commiserate about New York prices. Paul shares with us the struggles of creating a healthy savings rate in such an expensive city despite the fact that his wife is ..read more