Physician Spotlight: Dr. Dewan Farhana, DO (Doctor Finances)

20 min readMay 19, 2022

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Christopher H. Loo, MD-PhD: So welcome, everybody to this week’s podcast episode for the Financial Freedom for Physicians Podcast. And I’m your host, Dr. Christopher Loo. And we have a weekly show where we bring on physician entrepreneurs, investors, people on the cutting edge doing things we imagined impossible. So today we have a guest, Dr. Dewan Farhana. And she is the founder and CEO of Doctor Finances. And she’s going to talk to us all about her journey, and how she came, to be so welcome.

Dr. Dewan Farhana, DO: Hi, thank you so much for having me, Chris. I really appreciate it. I’m excited to be here.

Christopher H. Loo, MD-PhD: Yeah, we were just talking backstage a little bit. And we both had spoken on White Coat Investors. And as we had connected and just talked through email, the internet and just the network. So I’m glad to get you on the show. I’m trying to get the word out and the brand out and awareness out. So I know you do all things, finances, I know you’re interested in startups, you’ve written quite a number of books, and you’ve spoken. So tell us how you got started. And we’ll go from there.

Dr. Dewan Farhana, DO: Sure. So I can start a little bit with my sort of medical journey. So I did my undergrad at Rutgers. I was set to becoming a clinical physician my whole life. I imagined being the chair of the physical medicine rehab department at some top hospital. But while I was on my journey, I’ve always kind of been like a founder at heart, I’ve…