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Books by Haseeb Aslam, MD

Hospital medicine, physician finance, selling options, metabolic health

Field guides for residents and hospitalists. Beginner books on covered calls and cash-secured puts. Metabolic health without a food war. Written from the hospital. Built for anyone who wants the short version.

01 · Markets & money

Selling options and physician financial independence

Why these books

Covered calls, cash-secured puts, and a physician’s map to optional work. Defined risk. Leave a margin in the account.

Option Selling for Beginners book cover by Haseeb Aslam, MD

Option Selling for Beginners

A Plain-English Guide to Collecting Premiums, Managing Risk, and Building Steady Income

A 78% win rate can still lose you money. Here is the arithmetic nobody puts on the cover. Sell a credit spread. Risk $855 to collect $145. The market says you will win roughly 78% of the time, and you will. Run that trade one hundred times and you lose $7,500. Now close your losers at twice the credit received instead of letting them run to maximum. Same stock, same strikes, same probability. The identical trade makes $4,930. Second edition, rewritten and more than doubled in length.

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The Premium Collector book cover by Haseeb Aslam, MD

The Premium Collector

Selling cash-secured puts and covered calls in plain language. Then scan a ticker on this site.

Amazon
The Freedom Prescription book cover by Haseeb Aslam, MD

The Freedom Prescription

A Physician’s Roadmap to Financial Independence

A physician’s roadmap to financial independence. Optional work, not a high-salary leash.

AmazonOpen the planner →
Stethoscope to Freedom book cover by Haseeb Aslam, MD

Stethoscope to Freedom

How to Retire by 45 as an Internal Medicine Doctor

How a hospitalist plans to retire by 45. Physician wealth you can run between shifts.

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Practice by Choice book cover by Haseeb Aslam, MD

Practice by Choice

The Doctor’s Guide to Wealth, Financial Independence, and Making Work Optional

The doctor’s guide to wealth and making work optional. Boring on purpose. Runnable between shifts.

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02 · Hospital medicine

Hospital medicine field guides for residents and attendings

Why these books

Night-one handbooks for the ward, and a new casebook: Deceptively Simple. Diagnosis, treatment, and the one line nobody questioned. The Workroom is the four-line version for rounds.

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Deceptively Simple book cover by Haseeb Aslam, MD

Deceptively Simple

Why the Most Common Patients Are the Most Dangerous

Twenty patients. Twenty collisions. A hospitalist’s casebook on why the most common patients are the most dangerous. The one line nobody questioned. Paperback.

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The Resident’s Edge book cover by Haseeb Aslam, MD

The Resident’s Edge

A Survival Field Guide for Internal Medicine Residents

A hospital medicine survival field guide for residents. Skip the textbook. Get the next move.

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The Hospitalist’s Edge book cover by Haseeb Aslam, MD

The Hospitalist’s Edge

A Rapid Clinical Field Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, Workflow, and Quality

A hospitalist field guide: diagnosis, treatment, workflow, and quality. The next move, in your hand.

AmazonApple Books

03 · Metabolic health

Weight, blood sugar, and cholesterol without a food war

Why these books

Three readouts of one system. A physician’s humane method for metabolic health, without giving up the food you love.

You Don’t Have to Choose book cover by Haseeb Aslam, MD

You Don’t Have to Choose

Take Control of Your Weight, Blood Sugar, and Cholesterol Without Giving Up the Food You Love

Weight, blood sugar, and cholesterol are one system. A physician’s method that keeps the food you love.

Apple BooksOpen the triad planner →

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The short version

What is The Margin Doc options scanner?
A free tool for selling cash-secured puts and covered calls. Enter a ticker. See whether this is a decent moment to collect premium, scored against rules from The Premium Collector by Haseeb Aslam, MD. Educational only. Not a broker.
What is a cash-secured put?
You sell a put and hold cash to buy the stock if assigned. You collect premium up front. The risk is defined: you may own shares at the strike. The scanner helps you see whether the tape agrees with that trade.
What is a covered call?
You already own the shares. You sell a call against them and collect premium like rent. If the stock is called away, you sell at the strike. Defined risk. No lottery tickets.
Who is Haseeb Aslam, MD?
A hospitalist and teaching attending. He writes for the floor and for a wider room: hospital medicine field guides, physician financial independence, The Premium Collector, Practice by Choice, and You Don’t Have to Choose.
Are the scanner, planner, and triad free?
Yes. No account. No signup. The math stays on this device. Educational only. Not medical advice. Not financial advice. Not a broker.
What is the Practice by Choice planner?
The doctor’s map to making work optional. Enter a few non-identifying numbers. The math stays on this device. You leave with a freedom number, a timeline, and this year’s order of operations. Educational only.
What is the Metabolic Triad Planner?
A companion to You Don’t Have to Choose. Waist, blood sugar, and cholesterol are three readouts of one system. Enter a few numbers. The plan stays on this device. Educational only. Not medical advice. Do not start, stop, or change medication because of this tool.