Brittne Halford, MD, MPH, paid off $138,000 in medical school debt in 2 years and 9 months without feeling (terribly) deprived of the good things in life.
“I am from a family that’s rich in culture and community and support, but not as far as passing down wealth. My parents could not afford to send me to college, but I was able to acquire enough scholarships to pay for undergrad and matriculate to medical school,” Halford, an internal medicine physician and financial coach, told Healio. “Like many individuals, I had a lot of graduate school debt, and I saw how it was