King County. That's in Seattle as dtrack stated.
Fixed an achilles tendon today.
Is that just nails or nails and calluses? ie. the $70.
Either/or, both. Usually just nails. The lesser the better. If it’s a total knuckle busting hack job, I’ll usually dissuade them from coming back.
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I had a coresident who took a 175-200k mobile podiatry job out of residency supposedly. I wonder how that is working out realistically.
Usually with bases that high they are having fun with billing your Medicare number and billing for all sorts of things. Now if it is a percentage only then that is up to the individual provider what to bill for.
How many days are you placed on hold for a call like that?
Actually not bad, someone over there will take down your info and returns the call to set up a meeting. This is all handled by the front desk. I just initiated the request. And then during the actual meeting I just gave them the info of the patient that was seen in the hospital, propose my plan and see what they say. Works great for smaller local IPAs or regional HMOs. I
Just an FYI. I started out in 2013 and was barely making 60K/yr....It took me to my 3rd year of practice to reach over 300K/yr. I originally started as an employed doc, was a horrible experience and long-term plan for me. Starting in private practice took work and focus but things worked out and the practice is growing. Our new associate was making over 100K in his first year on a contract that just paid a % of collections. There is plenty of money to be made in our profession. However, the cost of schooling is ridiculous and needs to be addressed.
Where’s the burn center meme/hotline
Yah saturation is so bad young owners are growing mustaches and not even realizing it and repeating the cycle.
Why the need to immediately pay off loans? What about the income driven repayment plan? Also every physician is "pissing away" their youth, they know that when they decide to go into medicine. If people want to fully enjoy their 20's then they should have gone into tech. And with all these negative comments, I mean, op is clearly already stressed out. Why not have a more positive attitude and offer actual advice that can actually be utilized by op?
You just gotta put in your time. It's a rite of passage.
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I understand. If I was making 300k I’d probably be singing a different tune, but for anyone making sub 200 while not the wisest financial move, it’s definitely more comfortable to go IDR especially if you have family or other things to spend your money on (or god forbid already tithing a part of your income to a church)
Some people just doesn't like to hang onto debt (living with debt) and pay the interests to the banks while the banks build fancier, more expensive buildings. Sallie Mae (insert student loan provider) is an ugly nasty woman. Nobody wants her in the spare bedroom of the house for 25 years. We need her to move the hell out and be financially at peace, debt free. Your way of thinking about debt is "normal". Normal sucks and it's a great way to stay in debt forever, and that's how most Americans live (in some form of consumer debt). And don't depend on the stupid government to take care of your loans. They never will forgive the student loans. It's all political and it will be taxpayers forking it. You took the loans. Pay it off.
I dont know PSLF works. My podiatry loans are gone because I went from my residency straight into non profit rural hospitals for 9 years and I still work for a nonprofit hospital today. I still have a small amount of private loans that I plan to have paid off. Thanks George W. Bush for signing PSLF and Thanks Biden for tweaking it.
That’s because no one knows how to use it. A CRNA worked me through the process. Then Biden’s tweak counted residency.Student Loan Forgiveness Statistics [2023]: PSLF Data
Find out how many student loans have been forgiven, how often applications for forgiveness are accepted and more facts about the PSLF program.educationdata.org
Here's some stats.
This is the way. Compounding interest doesn't matter when it's forgiven after 20-25 years. Sure there may be a tax bomb at the end, but even with the tax bomb repayment is probably less than total loan repayment.
OK boomer. Tell that to everyone who took PPP loans and never paid back a dime.
Yep. It can be the difference between paying $700 a month or $3,000 a month which is massive in terms of quality of living.
Precisely. I don't understand the "eat rice and beans for 5-10 years as an attending" mindset. Who becomes a doctor to struggle through school & residency for 10 years only to be rewarded by 5-10 years of eating rice and beans? Not I. And as you alluded, delayed gratification only works if you know you're going to be alive, happy, and healthy long after you've delayed that gratification.
The banks do not win on this one. And as we all know banks >> people in this wonderful captialistic society. Policymakers would rather banks get full payout through decades of compounding interest at the eventual expense of taxpayers than to just set a reasonable stable interest to begin with.
Well if podiatry wasn't podiatry you would only have to live like a resident for 1 to 2 years like WCI talks about. That isn't that hard. 5 to 10 would suck. Another reason why podiatry is a terrible return on your investment.
Yes it’s a benefit of going rural… 🤔. Good pay and eligibility for PSLF. Your marriage might not survive but you could be debt free
Good point. Thought about working for Indian Health Services before. Then watched Yellowstone. Nah.
I did a lot of work on IHS patients, they are good people...its the bureaocracy that should worry you. Think the VA but worse and underfunded.
