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K It's Scott here and I wanted to introduce this new series looking at physician salaries.

Money may be something that you don't feel comfortable talking to your family members or even your

closest colleagues. It may be something that you're actually even embarrassed a little

bit about bringing up to your boss. Salaries are complex. There's many things that go into the work that you do.

And we here at BTK want to make sure that you have a much more thorough understanding of all that goes into it.

So what can you negotiate for?

What is it that goes into your benefits package?

What is the hospital side of the house?

All of these things are concepts that we are going to delve into and hopefully give you a much more thorough understanding of it so that you feel prepared in these discussions.

So we look forward to you sharing this podcast series with us as we help you dominate the day.

So welcome back all you BTK fans. It's Scott here for part two with Dr Justin Mackel, Professor Surgery at a U-Mass Medical

Center, Division Chief of Co-Orectal Surgeon, and Justin welcome back to BTK.

Thanks, I'm excited to do this again.

So Justin, where we last left off?

You just kind of gone through a little bit about an example

where we were feeling good about ourselves as surgeons good median salaries.

You reminded us a little bit about the taxes and a little bit about the loans that many of our trainees and many of our early surgeons may have but you know what I wanted to jump into in this

second part of this podcast was to talk a little bit about the other variables and

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