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The Sunday Best (03/29/2026)

Radiology is a field optimized for human replacement, where digital inputs, pattern recognition tasks, and clear benchmarks predominate. If the most extreme predictions about the effect of AI on employment and wages were true, then radiology should be the canary in the coal mine. But demand for human labor is higher than ever.

Somewhere along the decade-plus in training, physicians are imbued with a damaging idea: that we can’t succeed anywhere outside of medicine. Keep your head down, we’re taught. Don’t ask too many questions. And the age-old line: You may not love your work anymore, but who else will hire you?

About a quarter of the U.S. physician workforce are immigrants. Rural communities especially depend on immigrant doctors to fill workforce gaps. The Citizenship and Immigration Services this winter started freezing the processing of immigration benefits like work authorization extensions for people already in the U.S. from 39 countries. The change has affected work authorization renewals, green card processing, and naturalization.

For only the third time ever, there are more women employed in the U.S. than men, according to federal data highlighted in a report from Indeed, the jobs site. Overall, those jobs pay less than those held by men. Particularly, in healthcare.

The One Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law on July 4, 2025, runs over a thousand pages of tax code changes that most physicians will never read. So here are the parts of the OBBBA that actually matter for physicians during tax season.

I’m a semi-successful adult with a decent job. Why do financial conversations still make me feel clueless? A lot of people find money stuff overwhelming — but it’s never too late to start educating yourself.

For those of you who use the platform, Netflix, for the second time in a little over a year, is raising prices for its three plans in the U.S. The new pricing for Netflix’s plans were updated on its website on Thursday.

Be careful when comparing yourself with others. You don’t want to be so competitive it robs you of happiness, but looking at others can often help your own growth. What you need, is to compare well.

Don’t be fooled by your retirement plan. It may contain an excellent asset allocation and distribution strategy. Estate and tax planning are top-notch. Your retirement location is ideal. What’s missing?

Every serious investor eventually faces three quiet transformations. All three share a common thread: letting go of something — control, self-interest, the thrill of risk — in exchange for something deeper.

Around 60% of Americans say they struggle to keep up with day-to-day tasks. Elizabeth Emens, a professor at Columbia Law School, calls it “life admin” — the office work of life. All the invisible tasks that keep your existence running: scheduling, calling, emailing, returning, renewing, disputing, transferring, updating. Why is it so hard?

For new residents: With the emotional rollercoaster of Match Day behind us, let’s move on to the financial decisions that need to happen in the next 2 to 3 months before work swallows up your whole life.

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