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By Dr. Tod Stillson, Guest Writer

When I graduated from residency in 1995 and entered practice as an employed doctor in a rural community, I was surprised to discover that many of my local dentist colleagues were doing financially better than most of the physicians I knew. They drove nicer cars, had more time off, owned their own office buildings, and talked more comfortably about retirement planning than any of