[rwalmsley_851]

Atlas of normal variants by Keats

Oakstone website has some CME lecture courses from UCSF and others

Journals in your subspecialty

[blueblood]

Immunology of the Brain and Spine by Scott Atlas–great book!

[Unknown Member]

A subscription to statdx if you would use it.

[Unknown Member]

Wait until december.  Oakstone usually has some amazon kickback deals (like buy $1000 course and get $400 gift card, etc).

[rwalmsley_851]

E Anatomy is $75

[Dr_Cocciolillo]

But things you can return

[Dr_Cocciolillo]

Buy

[Unknown Member]

Is that tax fraud?

[btomba_77]

Quote from wisdom

Buy things you can return

Quote from 2BRads

Is that tax fraud?

yes

[Unknown Member]

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[btomba_77]

Quote from CE35B2CBAC728

Disagree that buying a book with professional fund money then returning it is fraud.

It’s obviously not the intended of the purpose of the fund but depending on the practice this may be accepted use of the money. Some places treat it like a bonus to do whatever with and others keep that under lock and key.

Only if that professional money is used as tax preferred … but that is the most common way it is structured.

[ester.mancuso_108]

You cant use pretax money for a business expense and profit 100% of the funds off the return of that purchase and not pay taxes on it. Thats tax fraud. If you dont use your pretax expense account funds they should be paid out at the end of the year and taxed appropriately if you wanna be squeaky clean with the IRS.

[leann2001nl]

This isnt difficult . Youre buying the thing for the amazon gift card. Would grandma think thats ok or not.

Would grandma be ok with the mri or device rep giving you front row tickets to the lakers game

[Unknown Member]

Everybody can decide their opinion, but not everybody can decide their own tax laws.

Some people decide what to do based on what is legal or within the rules. Other people will do what they can get away with or what they perceive others are already doing. Hence then common rejoinders,

How would they know?

Well everybody is doing it.

[Dr_Cocciolillo]

Yep. enough hints here. Do what you are comfortable with

[Unknown Member]

“… But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one’s way of doing things are found in trivial matters.” 
    – Yamamato Tsunemoto, in Hagakure  

[Unknown Member]

“I have a buttload of other hardback tome-type textbooks but I’m too lazy to roll my chair over 3 feet and pull them off the shelf.”
 
^^^ No to conventional books. 
 
Prepay society/journal memberships for multiple years; some let you do this. Eventually it will catch up with you, but worry about it then. By that time you may be able to do an ACR learning center course, or a Radiology in Paradise course, if that’s your thing. [When I go on vacation, I go on vacation. When I do CME, I do CME. When I drink tea, I drink tea.]

[rwalmsley_851]

I enjoyed the CME trip at a beach location. Obviously cant do that right now, but look forward to doing again in future.

[Unknown Member]

I bought a ton of books during my training and 2 fellowships…. and the only two things I use now are:
 
– E-anatomy subscription
– StatDx
 
I will only rarely use:
 
– ‘MRI of the Upper Extremity’ by Chung and Steinbach, usually for finger ligaments 
– Resnick’s IDJ (2 vol) 
– Mettlers’s nucs – because I suck at nucs
 
I have a buttload of other hardback tome-type textbooks but I’m too lazy to roll my chair over 3 feet and pull them off the shelf. They are mainly a visual reminder of how some of my former attendings – authors of some of these books – have more radiology knowledge in their pinky than I will have ever in my head. 

[leann2001nl]

How is the kickback crap OK. Straight up fraud