by Neill Slater, MD MBA | Jul 6, 2026 | Personal Finance
As I walked down the steep tunnel, stooping to avoid hitting my helmeted head, I approached the nearest point to North Korea that you can now access from the South. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to bring a camera into the 3rd Tunnel,...
by Neill Slater, MD MBA | Jun 22, 2026 | Personal Finance
The KTX train has just left Seoul, and my seat in car #5 is a good place from which to contemplate the year thus far. The weeks of 2026 have been flying by like the concrete and steel buildings outside my window – stop paying...
by Neill Slater, MD MBA | Jun 8, 2026 | Medicine
Not many laypeople think of physicians as lazy. Most people have at least a vague idea of what we have to go through to become doctors. We excel academically in high school and college. We run the gauntlet of volunteer...
by Neill Slater, MD MBA | Jun 4, 2026 | Personal Finance
Now that my updated list of physician FI bloggers is complete, I will start highlighting my favorite posts from these and other blogs every month. Here is the May 2026 edition. I spent this month drowning in end-of-the-school-year activities: school plays,...
by Neill Slater, MD MBA | May 25, 2026 | Business, Personal Finance
Medical professionals make hundreds of decisions each day, from the ordinary (what time to wake up, what to wear) to the job-specific (what labs to order, what medications to prescribe). For many doctors, their work-related...