Since drawing back the curtain on my own financial exploration for Medical Staff Association presentations and through my physician financial education platform, ElevateMD , I’ve found myself in more and more round-table conversations about doctors and money. And the one phrase I hear more than almost anything else is: “I talk to my accountant about everything.” It’s spoken earnestly—often with relief, sometimes with a hint of resignation—and almost always with a sense of trust placed in the one financial figure who feels accessible and consistently present. Truthfully, I still talk to my accountant about everything. The difference now is that those conversations happen alongside my wealth planners, with everyone seeing my financial plan in real time through coordinated strategy, forward-looking design, and long-horizon forecasting. This wasn’t always the case. For years, I relied exclusively on my accountant for every financial decision.…