Lifestyle

Poor estate planning could mean unnecessary costs for the family, while the right plan can potentially mean millions more. Fortunately, there are a few simple tools doctors can use to help circumvent mistakes.

Doctors may be on Facebook and other social networking sites, but they're often using a pseudonym so they can friend patients and staff members.

See the latest in our stock-picking competition: which stocks are hot and what the top 10 looks like. And you can still register if you haven't done so yet!

Just south of the Polar Circle, the Andersons stop at two lovey villages on Norway's coast.

More and more doctors are taking salaried positions rather than establishing independent practices, so they'll have to understand two key areas of the employee-employer relationship: leadership and income.

If art isn't your thing, then here are the top 10 non-art museums in the world, from Washington, D.C.'s National Air & Space Museum to the Anne Frank Museum.

A physician whose approach to health care is basic, talking about maintaining balance and viewing patients from the inside out.

Art as portfolio diversification for the individual investor. By adding traditional Chinese art as an alternative investment to stocks and bonds, a portfolio could be diversified away from the inherent risks of that market.

The deadline to file taxes isn't until April 17, but already people know what they'll do with the refunds they get and a third has decided to spend it.

Dave Caldwell, the executive vice president of Certify Data Systems, discusses the new stage 2 meaningful use requirements and how they will benefit both patients and providers.

The second in a series of in-depth articles on asset-protection planning discusses domestic asset protection through the use of LLCs and FLPs.

Schools are pushing to teach interprofessional education to students so they can learn teamwork. Taught successfully, it can mean lower costs for the health system.

Most well-allocated investment portfolios contain bonds as a key component, but the two common types are taxed in very different ways that could affect yields.

The Andersons are now in island-and-fjord country with a thick fog, the Lofoten Islands and an ice bar for spirits.

Setu talks about the challenges that physicians face in their financial lives, financial independence and more in this video interview.

Initially, the increased numbers of applicants matching to residency programs seems good, but it probably isn't a large enough increase to keep up with expected demand.

Americans grow up taught that monopolies are bad, but there are plenty in emerging markets to invest in.

Physicians have heard countless times the benefit that an EMR can have on their practices, but having one can also improve a physician's life away from the practice.

These nine hotels, from a cliff-side sanctuary to an uber-luxe mountaintop retreat, will test travelers who are even a little scared of heights. The views may be endless, but for some, so is the vertigo.

Harstad is the largest town in Norway's Versteralen Islands with history that goes back to the Stone Ages.

See the latest in our stock-picking competition: which stocks are hot and what the top 10 looks like. And you can still register if you haven't done so yet!

Today we plunge into the breach to try to make more of the tenuous bonds between medicine and business via some notable quotes.

How much do you trust your financial adviser? Enough to listen to him or her when you don't agree? A new survey shows that most advisers and clients have different opinions on measuring a portfolio's performance.

The online review site hasn't caught on for the health industry the way Yelp did for restaurants or TripAdvisor did for travel.

A new study questions the utility of Hospital Compare in prompting hospitals to improve quality of care.

Two relatively safe options to participating in the stock market that are especially appealing for a tax-advantaged account.

Once a physician has stayed with a practice for five years, the likelihood of leaving drops off; but turnover rates for those first four years can be high.

The University of Washington was ranked number one for primary care schools again this year. See the rest of the top 10.

This is the first in a series of in-depth articles on asset-protection planning, discussing the various creditors other than patients that doctors should be protecting their assets from.

A conversation with a book writing coach and published authors looking to help aspiring physician authors help get their message out.