I thought a good exercise for us medical professionals, and the medical professional wanna-be’s (yes, you know, the ones watching NCIS, CSI, House, ER and Grey’s Anatomy) to note the correlation between diseases and your financial health.

So let’s get started:

• Anxiety:  Nothing like being broke to increase your stress level.  Palpitations-check.  Hyperventilation-check.  Panic attack-check.  That’s what happens when you’re out of money and you still have a week left in the month. Xanax, ohhh, Xanax….
• Depression:  You know, no matter how hard you try, you have messed up sooooo bad with your finances, it will take a miracle to recover-”Now where is that bottle of Prozac?”
• Diabetes: Soda and dessert, can shoot your sugar sky high, while screwing with your “miscellaneous fund” planned spending account.  A little financial “insulin”, we call “discipline” is the cure!
• Heart Disease:  Double-cheeseburgers (see photo!), with super-sized fries, clogs your arteries, and causes a M.I.- with your food budget.  How ’bout a home-made salad, or a little no-fat yogurt, bought with a coupon of course.
• Hypertension:  Your blood pressure, can’t handle those over-due credit card bills, and over-draft fees.  Instead of a beta-blocker, try a budget-buster blocker, or a cash-channel blocker.
• Rhinovirus: otherwise known as the “common-cold”-your immune system is toast, when you over-dose on spending.  Nothing grandma can’t cure with a little chicken-soup, and financial common sense.
• Cancer: Cancer begins as one baaaad cell, which splits to two, then 4,16,32,64….till it overwhelms the system.  Just like paying the minimum on a credit card balance-your balance continues to rise, till it kills your finances.  Planned spending, is like radiation  therapy for out of control shopping/spending!

So, let’s use our medical knowledge, to get our financial patient back to good health.

Do you have a financial disease, looking for a cure.  Let us know here, at “The Millionaire Nurse!” Click the link for your “Emergency Money Resuscitation!”