RSRS has assembled some sound advice from experts in the financial and legal fields geared to you, the physician. The following is an excerpt from RSRSâ new guide: âGetting Ready to Retire: Financial and Estate Considerations for Retiring Canadian Physicians.â How should a retiring doctor plan for the disposition of the office premises, lease and equipment? If you […]
RSRS has assembled some sound advice from experts in the financial and legal fields geared to you, the physician. The following is an excerpt from RSRSâ new guide: âGetting Ready to Retire: Financial and Estate Considerations for Retiring Canadian Physicians.â After retirement, should a doctor maintain life/disability insurance? Critical illness/long term care insurance? Disability insurance provides protection while […]
What were they thinking? Some years ago, a retiring Ontario doctor opted to store his paper patient records in his cottage boathouse, which ended up collapsing, sending all 50-plus boxes floating into the lake. Venturing out in a rowboat, the distressed doc fished the boxes and their accompanying soggy pages of personal medical data out […]
âItâs such a high being a doctor; youâre making a difference in peopleâs lives. Once you retire, what do you do for an encore?â Those words come from Dr. Chris Carruthers, whoâs 72 and retired at age 65 after 35 years as an orthopedic surgeon practicing in Ottawa. Carruthers enjoys a stimulating second mini-career as […]
Halifax, NS – June 26, 2015 Imagine this bizarre scenario: A retiring Nova Scotia family physician who, after 18 months of diligent searching, couldnât find a doctor to take over his practice that included 2,100 patients plus all necessary equipment â the entire package offered FOR FREE. Yet thatâs precisely the situation that faced Dr. […]
