Lifestyle

Would you like to enhance your quality of life while lowering your workload? How about minimizing stress in your life? Or increasing potential net profits for your practice – all while maintaining or improving quality patient care?

Québec City won Travel and Leisure magazine’s top spot for cities in Canada to visit as part of the publication’s World’s Best Awards, a reader/user generated survey.

Traveling like a resident instead of a tourist has long been a goal for many vacationers. Now there are apps for that, creating ways for you to meet locals as tour guides so you accumulate experiences rather than just check things off your bucket list.

As physicians, we may not have been taught certain leadership skills during our training, but we can learn them. There have been some great historical examples of leaders that we can use today to help us grow into the kind of leaders that we need to be in order to affect positive change.

Just as in medicine, psychology remains dominant over science or math, fantasy over reality.

Should employed physicians unionize?

Indulgences can be fun, but the shine wears off in time.

In less than one week, Pokémon Go has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon. While Nintendo may be the one laughing all the way to the bank, here are some lessons we, in medicine, should learn from Pokémon Go.

When Joel Greenwald, MD, counsels physicians on how to manage their money, they listen. But not just because he’s a successful financial planner who works exclusively with dentists and physicians.

Ask most doctors and they will tell you that EMRs and other digital health products, like telemedicine platforms, are more of a problem than a solution and that they fail to see the benefits.

I thought that I had a ridiculously high savings rate, allowing me to retire by 2023, within 2.8 years of finishing fellowship. Most (soon-to-be) radiologists look at me like I'm some sort of weirdo who derives pleasure from “beneath-average-physician-standard-of-living” and obsessed with saving.

More bad news for America’s physicians: In 2015, medical malpractice lawsuit payout amounts rose for the third consecutive year.

The earlier one starts planning for retirement, the more prepared one should be not only financially, but also emotionally.

In today's world it can be important for doctors in practices of all sizes to ensure they are properly protected. What that means can vary depending on individual situations.

Telemedicine might be getting more traction in the business community and offer an improved patient experience, but many docs are not using it in their daily practice. A simple explanation is that, given present offerings, it does not improve the doctor experience. We have seen this movie before and we know how it ends.

When it comes to treating patients, most doctors get to see the snap shot, not the movie. Periodic visits, whether they are face-to-face or remote are usually “just in time” events. What happens between the visits is usually a mystery.

When visiting national parks, we expect to see awesome vistas, cascading waterfalls, towering canyon walls, and other park wonders, but by simply looking up at night we experience a dazzling display of constellations, planets, and nebulae.

Eric Anderson, MD, explores fiction and nonfiction books that should be added to your summer reading list.

My significant other grew up in an entirely different world from mine in many dimensions: cultural, social, economic, and psychological.

Years ago, “Greatest Generation” employees would spend their entire careers with the same company, because at retirement they would get a lifetime pension.

Avoid these five mistakes that can run your financial independene train right off the tracks, derailing any dreams you may have had of an early retirement.

I've spent a lot of time in the OR. One thing you learn is that the problems never seem to change, only the attempted solutions.

It appears that doctors are treating way too many patients for what is considered reasonable. That story tops this week’s PMD Critical List. Also making the list: An African American surgeon who responded to the police shootings in Dallas weighs in on gun and racial issues, and female physicians in even the most prominent schools are being paid significantly less than males.

Community health workers are trusted, frontline healthcare personnel who help bridge cultural and linguistic barriers. Their service can be invaluable.

My back of the envelope observation is that about 1% of doctors, engineers, and scientists have an entrepreneurial mindset and the six habits that define it.

If you're looking for history and a choice of walking or driving trails – the Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, MD may be for you.

Income inequality has become a major issue in America. Is it time for us to follow Europe's lead and institute a wealth tax?

One doctor's IPS is detailed line by line. The thought process and individualization are described.

Sick care is many years behind other industries when it comes to making lasting change in patients and doctors.

Through modeling leadership behaviors and teaching the right methods to be a leader, medical training staff can make a huge difference for the success of coming generations of physicians.