Practical guides for attending radiologists.
Contract mechanics, retirement plans, malpractice coverage, entity structure, and building long-term wealth — written by radiologists, for radiologists. Educational only.
Your First Attending Year
First-year checklist, contract mechanics, W-2 vs 1099, entity structure.
W-2 vs 1099: How the Same Dollar Offer Lands Differently
The structural differences in take-home, deductions, retirement space, and liability that turn a $500k W-2 into a $520k 1099 — or vice versa.
Read guide →Reading Your First Attending Contract
Partnership track vs straight W-2 vs locum. What matters, what is negotiable, and what is just window dressing.
Read guide →LLC vs S-Corp vs PC vs PLLC: Picking the Right Structure
The entity you operate under is a rarely-revisited decision that affects your taxes, liability, and flexibility for decades.
Read guide →Your First Year as an Attending: A Practical Checklist
What to do in months 1, 3, 6, and 12 — the concrete tasks that most of us wish someone had handed us on graduation day.
Read guide →Protecting Yourself
Malpractice coverage, tail insurance, disability and life insurance basics.
Building Wealth
Retirement plans, partnership/group valuation, tax strategy for attendings.
How to Read a Radiology Group's Financials (Before You Buy In)
What a partnership buy-in actually gets you, how to read the P&L like a candidate-turned-partner, and the red flags that precede bad outcomes.
Read guide →Tax Basics for the High-Earning Radiologist
Marginal brackets, QBI, estimated quarterlies, state residency, and the handful of structural levers that matter at your income.
Read guide →Retirement Plans for Radiologists: 401(k), Cash Balance, and Beyond
The biggest tax-deferred spaces available to a high-earning physician — and why cash balance plans are often the missing piece.
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