WCI #285: Physician Assistant Financial Education
White Coat Investor Podcast
Dr. Jim Dahle of the White Coat Investor
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Today we are interviewing PAs, Beth Macintire and Katie Bean. We know that most of our audience are physicians and dentists, but there is a healthy segment of you out there that are other medical professionals, such as PAs, as well as nonmedical professionals. This group is still a six-figure income, but maybe not the higher incomes that many doctors have. A lot of the information in this discussion applies not just to PAs, but to many of those other kinds of professionals as well. Today we are going to talk about the challenges of PA School, the cost of school, how to handle debt, what kind of job opportunities are out there for PAs at what salaries as well as what doing a fellowship or residency can do for you. We discuss if PAs can FIRE and if the cost of education is worth the investment. This interview will have something for everyone.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the White Code Investor Podcast, where we help those who wear the white coat get a fair shake on Wall Street. |
| 0:05.3 | We've been helping doctors and other high-income professionals stop doing dumb things with their money since 2011. |
| 0:15.0 | This is White Code Investor Podcast number 285, Physician Assistant Financial Education. |
| 0:19.8 | This podcast is sponsored by Bob Bionia, DRDisabilityQuotes.com. |
| 0:24.0 | He's an independent provider of disability insurance planning solutions to the medical community in every state, |
| 0:28.6 | and a long-time White Code Investor sponsor. |
| 0:31.2 | He specializes in working with residents and fellows early in their careers to set up sound financial and insurance strategies. |
| 0:37.2 | If you need to review your disability insurance coverage, or to get this critical insurance in place, |
| 0:42.2 | contact Bob at DRDisabilityQuotes.com today, or by emailing info at DRDisabilityQuotes.com or by calling 973-771-9100. |
| 0:53.6 | Alright, so let's cover a few things before we get into our interview today. |
| 0:56.6 | First, let's do our quote of the day. This one's from Oscar Wilde, and I love it. |
| 1:00.2 | He said, experience is the hardest kind of teacher, gives you the test first and the lesson afterward. |
| 1:06.0 | And I think that's true. Unfortunately, too many of us try to make all the mistakes ourselves, |
| 1:11.2 | rather than letting other people make mistakes and learning from their mistakes. |
| 1:16.2 | I don't know what you're doing as you're listening to this. A lot of you are commuting. |
| 1:20.6 | You're on your way home from work, you're on your way into work, maybe you're working out, maybe you're walking, |
| 1:25.0 | whatever, whatever you may be doing. I want you to know that there are people who are grateful for what you are doing. |
| 1:32.0 | I was talking to somebody last night who was so grateful. This was a neighbor of mine who just found a hematologist on college that he loves |
| 1:40.0 | because he's, you know, being aggressive about the workup that he needs for his anemia. |
| 1:44.0 | And, you know, whatever, especially you're in, there are people that are appreciative of what you're doing. |
| 1:49.0 | So I've no one said thanks yet today for what you do. Let me be the first. |
| 1:53.0 | Okay, we are going to have a special edition for Thanksgiving on this podcast. |
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