Lifestyle

Guests are starting to expect special hotel perks rather than being impressed by them.

The sick-care workforce is changing and every day there are new opportunities to retrain or create new roles.

Parents want their children to grow up with wisdom, integrity, and personal fulfillment. One way to achieve that goal is to start offering financial lessons early on in life.

The life of a physician can be frustrating at times. However, leadership coaches suggest that certain habits can help cultivate happiness, even in a difficult profession.

We all know establishing a medical career in America is a long, arduous process that requires much talent and even more dedication. Do we really end up better off (financially speaking) compared to our friends who enter the workforce immediately after college?

If a consumer is immersed in an investment fraud is she guilty too? Some people think so.

Cyber security has become as important as washing your hands. Passing on a virus in either situation can have catastrophic consequences.

While Stockholm on Sweden’s east coast is typically the first choice for vacationers, the west coast’s Gothenburg (Göteborg in Swedish) is a noteworthy destination for its first-rate museums, expansive gardens and amusement park.

A pediatric orthopedist says he enjoys solving the puzzles presented by the patients at his hospitals. When he needs to take his mind off work, he turns to the intricate art of sailing.

The Patient Centered Medical Home model is supposed to improve patient health by providing holistic care and easing access. However, many patients are ending up out in the cold.

On a cruise of the Galapagos Islands, 600 miles off the shore of Ecuador, you can watch sea lions, walk past colonies of blue-footed boobies, encounter 600-pound giant tortoises, and admire frigate birds and flocks of flamingoes. Exploring the UNESCO World Heritage Site is a dream vacation for animal-lovers.

New physicians find themselves in a unique financial situation when they apply for their first mortgage. On the one hand, they have substantial earnings potential. On the other hand, they have little income history, a massive amount of student loan debt, and little to no savings. So how do they buy that perfect home?

This is how one physician invests his money, applying a chosen asset allocation across mulitple accounts. I provide a rationale for the allocation and placement of funds within each account.

Savings shouldn't be an afterthought -- it ought to be the first payment you make each month.

Having a side gig can help you learn new skills and earn extra money, but it can also help you become a better doctor.

In the final part of his series on traveling America as an immigrant, Eric Anderson, MD, looks at the latter half of his adopted home country's 20th century.

There have now been enough health innovation successes and failures to talk about what works and what does not.

Anyone interested in becoming an entrepreneur needs to have a good idea of the fundamentals of patents and intellectual property law. Here's a primer.

Bermuda has glorious pink sand beaches, British panache, and more golf courses per square mile than anywhere else in the world. Here are some of our favorite Bermuda adventures.

Diversity training might sound like the kind of thing that's nice to have, but not essential. However, a physician's cultural competence can have significant impacts, not only a patient's health, but also on a practice's bottom line.

Thousands of physicians have been sanctioned for sexual misconduct involving patients in recent years, but for many, it hasn’t affected their medical license. That story tops this week’s PMD Critical List. Also making the list: Which hospitals are the most wired, and amid such technological advances, why is it still so hard for patients to get access to care?

It seems as though the medical profession has lost its sense of community.

Many have noted that the Holy Grail of getting a handle on sick-care spending is changing both patient and doctor behavior. Perhaps it is time for a more personalized physician approach.

The dangers that private practice physicians face today are monumental. Many private practice doctors have seemed to have developed symptoms that are endangering their retirement.

Many physicians feel fed up with the burdens of modern medicine and are looking for a way to start fresh in a new career. It's not as easy as one might hope, but there are a number of ways physicians can start over.

Here's a look at the five most popular stories on PMD last week.

Given the recent events in Minnesota, Baton Rouge and Dallas, the topics of institutional racism and police brutality are again in the public consciousness. Physicians should take the opportunity to look critically at their own inherent biases.

It used to be that we took vacations to get away from it all; now, we take it all with us by spending more time on our mobile devices—three hours per day—than sunbathing—two-and-a-half hours per day.

No longer should physicians believe that being outside of the management team stops them from being a leader

Motherhood is a major motivating factor in my pursuit of medicine and my ideals for serving patients and their families.