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Physician entrepreneurs need knowledge and multiple skills and abilities to be successful. Knowledge is learning about things, skills are learning how to do things, and abilities are about executing and applying your knowledge and skills. Competencies are measures of your abilities.

Every medical practice wants to reduce its overhead and retain more revenue. That goes without saying. So, why don’t more practices do that? Because it’s easier said than done.

What will legalizing marijuana do to society and the field of medicine?

While doctors advise patients to get help for their mental disorders, they are less likely to seek treatment for their own depression or anxiety. That story tops this week’s PMD Critical List.

Struggle, striving, and strength are essential parts of many American experiences. To these, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, which opened September 24, adds the backdrop of slavery and segregation.

What do you want your mortgage to accomplish? That’s the first question you should ask yourself when taking out or refinancing a mortgage.

Buying a new car and financing the purchase beats leasing – unless you plan to trade in your car after a few years. The longer you own your car, the more you’ll save buying versus leasing.

Many physicians think about the opportunities that exist for them when it comes to starting a business, but they often get caught up in one reason or another for why they can’t start a business and fear is a big stumbling block.

With several years of locum tenens work under my belt, I've been witness to some of the best and worst elements of life as a locum.

‘Bioentrepreneurship’ is the pursuit of opportunity with scarce resources with the goal of creating user-defined value through the deployment of biomedical and clinical innovation.

It wasn’t only the pioneers heading west who came through northwestern Nebraska. Fossils reveal that bear dogs, miniature camels, and even rhinos roamed on, what came to be, northwestern Nebraska’s lands.

Money can be an emotional matter. Some people spend their whole lives trying to untangle their own money hang-ups. Because you might have been partially drawn to medicine for financial reasons, and because the finances might turn out to be more complex than you had bargained for, it is a good idea to figure out whether you are carrying the burden of sensitive money baggage before it leads to interpersonal conflicts or serious financial mistakes.

I’ve been hearing the terms “educated dumb” and “commonsense is uncommon” frequently lately.

I've noticed a lot of angst and hair pulling deciding the appropriate role of doctors in managing or leading a clinical enterprise. Some doctors see being a physician executive as a

In spite of negative publicity about penny stocks, spammers, and some hedge funds, people still invest in these entities in hopes of getting rich. Sadly, many who place their hard earned cash and trust in them are burned.

On too many days and in too many ways, we as a nation can’t talk about politics anymore—we can’t find a common ground. A real incivility has taken hold in America.

Biomedical technophiliacs are repeatedly predicting the demise of doctors. They argue that robots and computers will make us obsolete, replacing the core medical roles of thinking, doing and feeling.

Should you convert to a Roth now or wait until retirement? You may be surprised.

The healthcare landscape is changing fast. For rural health, the transition to value-based healthcare means big changes in retention and recruitment strategies.

Everyone in sick care, it seems, wants to get engaged.

We spend 1/3 of our lives and 1/2 million dollars to obtain the privilege of practicing clinical medicine. Before trying to get out of it, perhaps we can figure out ways to be happy staying in clinical medicine.

Locum Tenens opportunities can be a great way to start your career, pad your income mid-career, or work when and where you want as you near your career's end.

One of the myriad of choices physicians face is whether to buy or lease medical equipment. But as Mark Hoffmann, vice president at Key Equipment Finance, points out, those who purchase medical equipment outright are in the minority.

Enjoy a frightful change from the same old ghouls and goblins this Halloween. Your kids and teens aren’t the only ones that will enjoy the clever – and safe – “haunting” grounds at regional theme parks.

Harvard Business School guru Clayton Christensen, of disruption fame, urges us to look at products and services that companies produce as the “job” customers are “hiring” a product or service to do.

Less than one-third of doctors voted in recent elections. That story tops this week’s PMD Critical List.

I have heard from multiple people that radiologists aren't real doctors. I might have even thought that, too, prior to radiology residency. But having done a PhD and getting exposure to the joys of imaging, I didn’t care going in to it. Then I started radiology residency, and it became crystal clear that not only are radiologists

We've been calculating I's and O's since med school, learn how real estate finance isn't all that different.

“There are lies, damned lies and then there are statistics.” In recent election years, instead of analog tea leaves, financial analysts have turned to deep-diving and number-crunching to not just predict who would win, but also what effect the presidential election might have on our money.

An episode of care no longer seems to suffice. Instead, they want a whole product solution. What might that look like?