After completing a residency in pediatrics and one in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins, I started a practice for my neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn in September 2007. People would visit my website; see my Google calendar; choose a time and input their symptoms; my iphone would alert me; I would make a house call; they'd pay me via Paypal; and we'd follow up by email, IM, videochat, or in person.

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  • Sallie Mae - Consolidation Department = screwed.

    idlaurenn:

    Ed is in his last year of Residency. I just graduated Design school. This is pretty much how the conversation went…

    His debt > My debt

    Ed: Wait. You said Sallie Mae is the one you were talking about earlier?
    Me: Yep. They eliminated their entire consolidation program.
    Ed: That sucks, because half my loans are private from Sallie Mae.
    Me: Well. At least I know that we will suffer together.
    Ed: I’m thinking about going into Family Medicine.
    Me: Good for you!
    Ed: That just means I will be suffering for longer than I expected.
    Me: Well see….welllll see.

    This happened to me as well. They’ve eliminated their loan consolidation programs as well as refinancing programs. I’m stuck paying literally $4900 a month for my med school loans for the foreseeable future. I skipped a month last month and had an $10,000 bill…

    And the federal government wants to cut physician revenue by 30% if they could get away with it. It’s only going to hurt primary care docs currently starting at $110K per year in NYC. If you’re an interventional radiologist, cutting 30% out of a $600K salary doesn’t hurt much more than your inflated ego.

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