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I found myself lying prone in an MRI tube with my arms extended on top of my two-year-old son, trying to hold his head still so they could get images of his brain without giving him anesthesia. As he’s crying and trying to wriggle free, I was wondering, am I going to be one of those parents whose kid has brain cancer?
The term vs. whole life insurance debate is a popular one, especially amongst higher income individuals, such as our physician and dentist clients. Today we will explain what is the difference between term and whole life insurance, how term life insurance works, how whole life insurance works, discuss other cash value life insurance alternatives to whole life, and identify scenarios where each type could be appropriate.
As a doctor in the last year of residency or fellowship, you can see the light at the end of the tunnel! Now is the time to get your financial house teed up for success as you will soon morph into a new attending physician. This week we put together a short finance checklist of things to address in the last year of residency or fellowship to help you on your journey. Let’s get started!
As a new wave of interns & residents begin working at teaching hospitals across the country, we thought it would be a good idea to put together a guide to money in residency so you can get started on the right foot. The sooner you can establish good habits, the easier your path to financial freedom will be (possibly even fatFIRE).
Disability insurance is one of the most overlooked and undervalued components to a successful financial strategy. Today we look at some facts about disabilities to bring awareness to the matter.
Own occupation disability insurance. It’s a regularly searched term for specialized professionals, such as doctors. Some people will search for physician disability insurance. Others may search for occupational disability insurance. I can see how own occupation disability insurance and occupational disability insurance can be interchangeable terms. The more commonly referenced terminology for occupation-specific disability insurance is “own occupation disability insurance,” so we’ll stick with that for today.
Longevity planning and Long-Term Care planning are an integral part of a solid financial plan, especially for LGBT families. But you have to trust that the advisor you work with will help you find, what you want, what you need, what you can afford, and what you can get approved. They also need to give you options if you cannot get the type of coverage you want or need. It is helpful to work with someone who is an expert in working with someone like you.
One of the most overlooked components of financial planning is income protection. Income is the linchpin that holds your entire financial world together. Unless you are independently wealthy and don’t need to work anymore, you probably rely pretty heavily on your earnings. If this is the case, you should probably do everything in your power to ensure your income continues to flow, even if you are unable to work.
Physician disability insurance is a specialty specific (commonly called “own-occupation”) policy that protects a doctor’s income in the event they can’t work due to injury or illness. As it turns out, there are a lot of mistakes doctors make with disability insurance that can potentially be problematic.
In the last couple of weeks, I cannot count how many times a client has reached out to me asking about their life insurance. I get questions clarifying whether or not life insurance will pay if they die from COVID-19 (it will). I also have people asking me to help them get more life insurance in a hurry.
