06/04/2026
Don't be like Dr. Gambhir. She lost to the IRS.
Here's what she did and how she got into trouble.
⚠️ She set up a real home office. Kept her receipts. Filed her return. Believed she was doing everything right.
Then the IRS said no. And every single deduction collapsed.
Dr. Gambhir was a hospitalist. Got a W-2 every year. But filed a Schedule C — like she was self-employed. Deducted her car, her cellphone, her scrubs, her 850 sq ft basement home office, her cleaning lady.
$14,000 in deductions. All of it disallowed.
Here's the part that should scare every employed physician:
She wasn't committing fraud. She wasn't being aggressive. She just put the IV in the wrong arm — and watched everything cascade from there.
W-2 vs. 1099. Home office rules. The commuting trap. It's all in episode 4 of Doc vs IRS. 🎥
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