In this episode of the Money Meets Medicine podcast, Dr. Jimmy Turner and co-host Justin Harvey CFP discuss various implications and strategies regarding sudden inheritance of assets, including vehicles, cash, stocks, and trusts. They emphasize the importance of strategic financial planning and timely decision-making to optimize tax benefits, avoid financial pitfalls, and preserve family relationships. They highlight specific examples such as the step-up in basis for stocks, tax implications of inherited IRAs, and the psychological impacts of lump sum versus dollar cost averaging in investment. The episode also underscores the necessity of having a well-communicated estate plan to prevent family disputes and ensure coherent asset distribution.

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In this episode, host Dr. Jimmy Turner interviews Dr. Hannah Thompson and her husband, Chris Herring, from OtherSide Med. They talk about handling finances in residency, getting on the same page with your spouse financially which applies to more than just those in training. And we're even gonna touch on disability insurance and Hannah's journey and doing the due diligence and ending up getting disability insurance.

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In this episode, Dr. Jimmy Turner and Justin Harvey CFP discuss a common journey from financial independence, retire early (FIRE) to Die with Zero mentalities as doctors learn more about money and have more lived experience. They discuss specific tools to help you determine what you should be spending money on (and how much), financial arrival fallacies, and the importance of using money as means to an end and not the end itself.

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