Risk & Blind Spots: What You Don’t See Can Hurt You

We’re trained to see what others miss: a subtle shadow on an X-ray, a lab value just out of range, a pattern no one else connected—that’s where our expertise shines. But when it comes to money, as physicians we are surprisingly prone to blind spots. Not because we’re careless, but because the rules of wealth are far less intuitive than the rules of medicine.