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Finding Financial Freedom with The Frugal Physician - Finance, Wellness, Budget, Student Loans, Wealth, Doctor, Fitness, MoneyThe Real Cost of Nurse Practitioner-led Care with Tarang Patel, MDDr. Disha Spath and Dr. Tarang Patel address the controversial topic of nurse practitioners’ expanding roles in healthcare. The discussion is sparked by a recent article that highlights concerns over the quality and adequacy of NP training. Dr. Patel discusses the implications of NPs practicing autonomously without sufficient oversight, emphasizing the potential risks to patient safety and the ethical dilemmas faced by physicians. The episode also covers how this trend affects the medical community, including the economic pressures on physicians and the growing stress within the healthcare system. The conversation closes with a reflection on pers...
2024-08-3052 min
Finding Financial Freedom with The Frugal Physician - Finance, Wellness, Budget, Student Loans, Wealth, Doctor, Fitness, MoneyWhy Walmart’s Healthcare Venture Failed with Dr. Tarang PatelDr. Disha Spath welcomes back Dr. Tarang Patel to discuss significant updates in healthcare and finance. They delve into Walmart's decision to shut down its healthcare centers, the FTC's move to ban non-compete agreements, and the growing trend of multifamily syndicators targeting physicians. The conversation also touches on the national radiologist shortage, the challenges of corporate healthcare, and the future of telehealth and AI investments. More on Dr. Tarang Patel: Dr. Tarang Patel is a renowned expert in physician finance, blending his extensive medical knowledge with sharp financial acumen. As a practicing radiologist, Dr. Patel understands the...
2024-05-1743 min
Finding Financial Freedom with The Frugal Physician - Finance, Wellness, Budget, Student Loans, Wealth, Doctor, Fitness, MoneyEp14: The Financial Challenges Faced by Doctors with Dr. Tarang PatelThis episode features Dr. Tarang Patel, who is a diagnostic radiologist and host of the Dr. Money Matters Podcast. We discuss financial challenges faced by healthcare professionals, especially doctors, who often lack financial education and face increased loan burdens and decreased self-employment opportunities. Dr. Patel emphasizes the need for good financial education and habits, and shares his personal journey and experiences with the financial industry. He advises doctors to be cautious of investment products and to conduct their own research before making any financial decisions. The video Dr. Patel suggested during the show can be f...
2023-08-2529 min
Doctor Money MattersEp 57. Introducing What's Up Docs?This is a special episode of the podcast in which I am introducing a new project I am working on with Dr. Disha of the Frugal Physician. We are starting a YouTube series called What’s Up Docs? to talk about what's trending in physician social media. In this episode we discuss: a proposed residency for nurse practitioners and physician assistants in emergency medicine that had physicians in an uproar, particularly because they were going to be paid more than PGY3 EM residents. This program is not going to happen, but boy did it get everyone tal...
2020-03-0643 min
Doctor Money MattersEp 49. Dr. Disha MD -- The Frugal PhysicianOn this episode, my guest is Dr. Disha of The Frugal Physician blog. We talked about her journey from being in debt to quickly paying off loans as a primary care physician despite a few financial setbacks. Obviously it is easier to payback loans in a dual high income couple but for many of my listeners, there is only one earner or one high income earner in the family, so we talk about how she did this. Disha is an internal medicine physician who caught the financial independence bug after a couple of typical new grad mistakes...
2019-05-0943 min