How medical training teaches doctors to be financially unhealthy

<p>"We physicians must come to terms with the trauma caused by the financial insecurity built into our training and the ripple effect it has even after we finish training, both as a way to repair ourselves individually and as a way to assure that our profession survives.</p> <p>The cost of medical education is high, but the cost of the financial lessons learned in the course of obtaining that education is even higher. It may be a price too high for future doctors to bear."</p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethhughesmd/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Hughes</a> is a dermatologist.</p> <p>She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, "<a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/08/how-medical-training-teaches-doctors-to-be-financially-unhealthy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How medical training teaches doctors to be financially unhealthy</a>." (<a href= "https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/08/how-medical-training-teaches-doctors-to-be-financially-unhealthy.html">https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2021/08/how-medical-training-teaches-doctors-to-be-financially-unhealthy.html</a>)</p>