Joshua Dunigan

About

I'm Joshua Dunigan, DO, a family medicine physician in Des Moines, Iowa, and the founder of MedMoneyGuide.com, a site focused on financial literacy for physicians. I started writing about money for a simple reason: medical training teaches you to take care of patients and almost nothing else. You finish residency knowing how to run a code but not how to read your own employment contract, compare student loan repayment plans, or tell the difference between a financial advisor who works for you and one who works for a commission. Most of us figure this out the hard way, usually after a few expensive mistakes. MedMoneyGuide.com is my attempt to fix that. I write in plain language about the money questions physicians actually face: paying down six figures of student debt, negotiating a first contract, deciding whether to buy or rent, choosing the right retirement accounts, and building wealth on a doctor's particular mix of high income, late start, and long hours. I'm especially interested in the gap between earning well and feeling secure. Plenty of physicians pull in a strong income and still feel like they're treading water, and a lot of that traces back to never being taught how money works for high earners with an unusual career timeline. I also believe this stuff doesn't have to be boring to be useful. A lot of my social media is just memes about physician finance, because if I can make a tired resident laugh at a joke about loan interest, there's a decent chance the lesson actually sticks. Money is dry enough on its own; the humor is how I get people to pay attention long enough to learn something. I'm available to comment on physician personal finance, student loan strategy for medical professionals, employment contract basics for new doctors, common financial mistakes in early-career medicine, and the broader question of why money management is missing from medical education. I write as a practicing physician rather than a finance-industry insider, which means I talk about this stuff the way doctors actually live it, not the way it gets sold to them. You can find my writing at MedMoneyGuide.com.