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On Money Meets Medicine, Dr. Jimmy Turner discusses all things career and finance for physicians. With expert guest discussions, Jimmy tackles the personal finance topics you wish you had learned in medical school. The MMM podcast will help you tackle your student loans, achieve financial independence, invest for retirement, and decrease your financial stress and burnout. To get help with free educational content or obtaining own-occupation disability insurance from a source you know you can trust, visit https://moneymeetsmedicine.com/disability Background: Dr. Turner is a practicing anesthesiologist at Wake Forest, author of The Physician Philosopher's Guide to Personal Finance...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes physician compensation legible by connecting contract terms, retirement costs and career choices to the realities of medical work.
Money Meets Medicine treats physician pay as the beginning of the financial question, then follows the contract terms and career conditions that determine what it is really worth. Dr.
That 'standard' physician contract looks different once your future work RVUs enter the room.
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A practical look at home-buying debt and renovation ROI, with a clear gap between livability and resale value.
The episode treats buying a home as a debt decision before anything else, with Jimmy Turner and Justin Harvey keeping the math in view rather than dressing up the purchase as a dream.
A practical physician housing conversation that keeps the math tied to one specific home, not just market averages.
Money Meets Medicine presents the housing decision through a clear physician-first lens, with Dr. Jimmy Turner and Justin Harvey weighing whether to buy, keep renting, or wait until the numbers line up better.
A reminder that credentials do not erase risk, and physicians still need enough financial literacy to judge advice.
Money Meets Medicine treats a bad startup bet as a blunt lesson: smart doctors can still get burned by illiquidity, hidden fees, operational risk, and the easy mistake of treating credentials like a guarantee. What lands is how ordinary the danger feels.
A grounded money-and-neurodivergence conversation that keeps its cruise material tied to physician experience.
Money Meets Medicine starts with a cruise conversation and moves into something more useful: how neurodivergence can shape money habits, leisure spending, and the way those habits follow doctors into the rest of life. Dr. Jimmy Turner interviews Dr.
A practical checkup on rollover decisions, advisor conflicts, and the money moves after leaving an employer.
The episode keeps its feet on the ground. It is about what happens to money after leaving an employer or retiring, and it stays most useful when it gets specific about rollover choices, fee comparisons, and the plain question of whether the numbers actually work.
A contract guide that turns RVUs and bonus language into real take-home tradeoffs.
This episode treats physician compensation as a contract-reading exercise, not a theory lesson. It moves through base salary, work RVUs, bonus structures, scheduling control, and the way a clean headline number can hide a heavier workload.
Debt is not just financial here; it reaches into personal life, training outcomes, and career choice.
Debt gets treated here as something that follows a person home. It can squeeze personal life, weigh on school performance, and color career plans. That makes the discussion feel grounded instead of abstract.
A sharp look at retirement-plan fees and when financial advice earns its keep.
Money Meets Medicine treats retirement-plan fees like something worth auditing, not background noise. Paul Sippel breaks down the hidden layers inside 401(k)s, 403(b)s, and cash balance plans, and the math is hard to ignore when those layers can cost physicians thousands over…
Paul Haavardsrud unpacks Canadian money stories, from ski-hill VIP pricing to French butter tariffs.
Real-estate freedom, taught in plain numbers.
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They open with the uneasy question behind a home purchase: are you taking on more debt than you should?
Justin Harvey opens by asking what actually moves the needle financially and what mostly does not.
Jimmy Turner lays out the goal right away.
Justin and Jimmy open with holiday banter and a kitchen remodel that sounds as disruptive as it is ordinary.
Paul Sippel joins Money Meets Medicine to unpack the hidden fees inside retirement plans.
The hosts start by pushing back on a tidy two-bucket view of physician jobs and point to a third path that lives inside every contract.
The 250th episode opens with a big number: Dr.
Justin opens with a javelin story.
Jimmy Turner is considering leaving after almost 20 years in one place.
Money Meets Medicine centers on the idea that a doctor’s most valuable asset is time, not money, and Jimmy Turner ties that idea to his departure from Wake Forest after almost 20 years.
Money Meets Medicine uses Jimmy Turner’s daughter Grace, who earned fourth chair all-district flute in North Carolina, to frame a retirement calculation about spending less and retiring earlier.
A physician asks whether $1.2 million of inherited money should sit in cash, go into a brokerage account, or support other goals like travel, a sabbatical, or charitable giving.
Money Meets Medicine opens with the claim that an emergency fund can be “too big,” then moves into three practical questions from physicians about insurance, car buying, and cash reserves.
Money Meets Medicine compares 1099 contractor pay with W-2 physician employment using a concrete $400,000 example that becomes about $470,000 after benefits are counted.
Money Meets Medicine asks whether physicians should invest in bonds, and Justin Harvey says his own portfolio is under 5% in bonds at age 39.
NASCAR driver Kyle Busch's $10.4 million lawsuit against Pacific Life over a disastrous IUL (Indexed Universal Life) policy serves as a cautionary tale for physician investors.
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Money Meets Medicine opens with a joke about how close today’s first-time homebuyer is to collecting social security as they are to their high school graduation.
The hosts open with a simple promise: by the end, the compensation section of a physician offer should make sense.
The conversation opens with a blunt warning that "standard" contract language usually is not as standard as it sounds.
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The hosts of Money Meets Medicine present a contrarian view on real estate investing for physicians, arguing that it often represents a time-consuming 'third job,' reduces liquidity, adds tax complexity, and is frequently driven by FOMO rather than sound financial planning.
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The show opens with a blunt thesis: really smart people can still do really dumb things with money.
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Hosts discuss the impact of the 'one big beautiful bill' tax legislation on physicians' personal finances.
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Hosts discuss minimizing financial effort and the philosophy of simplifying life choices, using wardrobe as an example.
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