Lifestyle

With doctor burnout rampant and little relief in site, more physicians are dropping out of clinical medicine, planning abbreviated clinical careers, or not taking residencies at all.

The name of the game is how much you keep, not how much you make. I’m not advocating extreme financial hoarding; I’m advocating smart stewardship of your hard earned dollars.

There are times when it makes sense to make an investment that may not have favorable terms. This was one of those times.

There’s something cheerless about how a city gets developed and immediately the big upscale hotels start building to have a presence. That isn’t an issue in Minneapolis.

Each year, travel magazines and sites release their lists of the best in travel. More than 300,000 readers and users of Condé Nast Traveler (CNT) submitted reviews of their favorite destinations, hotels, resorts, cruises, and more.

If Dos Equis was holding auditions for the next Most Interesting Man in the World, Luga Podesta, MD, would be a shoe-in.

One of the tried and true principles of entrepreneurship is the ability to learn from your mistakes. The same holds true for any doctor, since mistakes are inevitable.

Condé Nast Traveler’s (CNT’s) Readers’ Choice Awards are based on the comments and ratings of more than 300,000 of the magazine’s readers and the site’s users.

Physicians aren’t exempt from patients’ prejudice, but there are ways to handle those tough situations. That story tops this week’s PMD Critical List.

Tom Clancy wrote about a spy named Jack Ryan who became president after a string of unlikely events. Will a real Jack Ryan become president in 2016?

Can money, in fact, buy doctors happiness?

A casual observer might argue that much of what a physician does is, in effect, sales. We are often trying to talk someone into something, a medical work up or treatment, or out of something, like self-destructive habits.

One of the things that most successful people have in common is that they create daily habits that help them to earn and maintain the success they have in life. The time is now for you to start utilizing these daily habits to help attain the success that you desire.

Much had changed, for the better, since our Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) Escape sailing years ago. The Escape surprised us: for the most part, the food was tasty, the entertainment engaging, and the ship, family-friendly.

The timing of a part-time transition can make a big difference in your ability to build wealth. Just a few years of full-time work first can shave years off a career.

Like most entrepreneurs, I've had my share of failures, fumbles and fooling around. It would have been a lot easier if I had euthanized the ideas sooner and put myself and many others out of their misery sooner.

With an estimated 12% of Medicare and 10% of Medicaid payments lost to fraud and other improper payments in 2015, it is no surprise that battling healthcare fraud is a high priority on the government's checklist. Let's talk about one rampant cause of healthcare fraud that doesn't get the limelight.

While there are no hard boundaries to early-, mid-, and late-career, let’s consider a late-career doctor someone who anticipates retirement in the next three to eight years, so typically age 50 to 65.

It is true that we are overdue for a bear market. A correction is a drop of 10% from the peak; a bear is 20% or more. We haven’t see the latter since 2008.

A dollar invested in PGY1 has nearly one more full doubling time compared to that 6-10 year-later-invested dollar in your first few attending years.

Physicians who want to continue to use their medical knowledge or healthcare skills to work in a professional setting outside of patient care have a variety of options for full time work.

Leadership is in crisis and the command and control model is bankrupt.

Trusts are not just for the rich and famous - find out how a trust can help you.

It may seem premature, but you should book now for spring and summer stays at state parks. These hidden gems, often eclipsed by the National Parks, are easily accessible, offer wallet-friendly accommodations, engaging activities, and first-class scenery.

I am one of those guys who can say that his father was his hero. My physician-dad set a fine example—both as a man and a doctor. A man of few words, you had to watch his actions to learn his ways.

The number one challenge facing rural healthcare organizations in 2017 is the talent shortage.

There are many reasons to build a crowd. Crowd funding must have a crowd. Innovation takes a crowd. New product development and post market surveillance takes a crowd. Building a non-profit takes a crowd. Intrapreneurship takes a crowd. But, how do you do it?

Minneapolis is essentially an American story – a story of enterprising engineering, confident success, rolled-up sleeves hard work, then collapse of industry and the need to re-invent itself.

Walk the talk. Health translates into wealth exponentially. Focus on your health, physical, psychological, spiritual, and financial health. How can you be a health care provider if you are not health yourself? True, our career demands so much from us that it’s challenging to be stay healthy, more so than any other career. But we like challenges; that’s why we choose medicine as a way to serve. So now, rise up to the challenge and exemplify the health that you teach your patients to work toward.

Cutting annual spending from $200,000 to $120,000 can shave about 30 years off a physician's career.