Medscape analyzed responses from 19,328 physicians in more than 29 specialties to determine their insights.
What’s losing physicians money?
- Bad investments on the stock market: 17 percent
- Practice issues: 10 percent
- Real estate losses: 5 percent
- Job loss: 4 percent
- Legal fees: 4 percent
- Divorce fees: 3 percent
Bad investments physicians made:
- A stock or company that turned out badly: 30 percent
- Something else that did not work out: 19 percent
- A bad real estate investment: 14 percent
What expenses are physicians paying off?
- Mortgage: 65 percent
- Car loans: 38 percent
- College or medical school: 26 percent
- Credit card debt: 26 percent
- College tuition for child: 21 percent
- Car lease: 19 percent
- Medical expenses: 16 percent
- Childcare: 15 percent
- Mortgage on second home: 15 percent
- Private school for child: 15 percent
- Significant other’s school loan: 11 percent
- Business loan: 9 percent
- Graduate school for child: 7 percent
- Alimony: 3 percent
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