Saturday, August 18, 2007

Opening Thoughts


This blog is for everyone hoping to maintain on less. Several years ago, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) started to urge their members to reduce, reuse and generally live on less because reimbursement for physician services was going down at the same time malpractice insurance and other practice associated costs were going up. Apparently this program was successful. As urban legend would have it, the AAOS was invited never to return to Las Vegas for their annual convention. The orthopedic surgeons were blacklisted in Vegas for being too frugal. Casinos, hotels and restaurants simply lost money when thousands of penny pinching surgeons descended on the town. Now the orthopedists are reduced to meeting in places like, well, Chicago.

I may not get you blacklisted in Vegas...but I hope to show you how to "live like an orthopedist" or at least help you hold on to your money and make it grow.

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