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238 - Pay my student loans or Buy Bitcoin?

Docs Outside The Box

Dr. Nii Darko

Career, Education, Doctor, Medicine, Careers, Job, Business, Health & Fitness, Finance, Investing, Premed, Black, Money, Lifestyle, Mindset

4.9516 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! Just started residency and don't know what to do with your money? This is the show for you. The popular doc bloggers Physician on Fire, Doctor Finances, and SurgiFI are on this episode to talk/debate what you should do with your money. How to live within your meansHow much debt we dealth withMake the money work even while you sleepPay of student loans or invest in bitcoinResources: Doctor FinancesSur...

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0:26.0

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0:31.5

Was good, guys.

0:32.9

I'm really excited to have my super team of personal finance bloggers.

0:37.1

So listen, it's been a while since I've had personal finance docs on talking about anything related to money. So I'm super excited to have y'all. So on this show, we're going to have Dr. David Roney. I'm doing an accordance to where I see them on my Zoom thing. So I have Dr. David Roney. I have Dr. Fahana. I have Dr. Dalline. Let me give you their super names.

0:55.5

All right. So Dr. David Roney is also known as Surgey. What's up? What's good? How you doing? Sir, thank you for the invite. We got Dr. Farhanna, who is head of Dr. Finances coming all the way from the West Coast. Is the best coast. What's good? How you doing? Hey, how are you? Thank you for having me.

1:28.5

And we have Dr. Dalline, also known as Physician on Fire, who is an OG of the show. This is like your fourth time coming on the show. Welcome to Docs Outside the Box. How you doing? Thank you so much. Happy to be back. I'm excited that you all are here. So listen, listen, we're recording this in August. Our interns are about a month and what, two weeks new, right? Hopefully none of them have caused any major

1:34.3

mistakes. They are trying to figure out still where the bathroom is, how to write notes,

1:40.2

how to probably even present a patient in a soap note fashion. But for a lot of them, I remember when I was at this point, you know, I was just used to taking my student loans and using that to pay for my housing, using that the refund to pay for my car payment, to eat and so forth. But now for the first time ever, when I became a resident, I'm sure you all in some form of fashion understand, you get this new money, right? Whether it's 40K or up to 60K or what have you.

2:03.7

And you're trying to figure out what to do of your money. resident, I'm sure you all in some form of fashion understand, you get this new money, right?

2:17.2

Whether it's 40K or up to 60K or what have you. And you're trying to figure out what to do of your money, right? As well as take care of people, as well as write notes, as well as get sleep, as well as be in shape. So let's talk about it. What do your thoughts on living within your means? Let's go with Dr. Farhanna, let's talk about that.

2:17.9

What do you think about that?

2:18.7

Sure.

2:17.9

So first things, first I would say, even though he living within your means. Let's go with Dr. Farhanna. Let's talk about that. What do you think about that?

2:24.0

Sure. So first things first, I would say, even though handling personal finance may seem scary and more stressful and adding to the stress, if residents can just put a little time and effort into it

2:28.8

up front, it's going to be really actually de-stressing and a more like empowering process because then it's going to help

2:36.8

make a lot of things easier. So like living within means. So you get your first check. What are

2:40.6

certain things? So first things first is look at the student loans and see what's going on. What are the

2:45.4

interest rates? Can you, you know, apply for the public service loan forgiveness? Make sure that you

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