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Roanoke's Taubman Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition featuring hundreds of paintings by Norman Rockwell. The exhibition offers a great reason to visit Virginia.

Doctors are taught to be diagnosticians, diagnosing and treating diseases instead of simply treating symptoms. When it comes to the transformation of healthcare, doctors need to take their own advice.

Social media has the potential to help a practice's bottom line, but it can also create an opportunity for misuse. The good news: The Federation of State Medical Boards has created guidelines for physicians to follow. The bad news: Many physicians don't know the guidelines exist.

Physicians spend hundreds of hours each year reporting data to insurance companies, for a total tab of more than $15 billion worth of time. That story tops this week’s PMD Critical List. Also making the list: Infection rates remain a stubborn problem, and one state outlaws paper prescriptions.

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

The burden of a stressful job and complicated finances causes many people to reconsider their career choice. These three steps can help you fix your finances and clear your mind.

A new book uses interviews, historical records, and new information to diagnose mental health problems and disorders of celebrities and other influential people.

A surprisingly high number of Americans have bank accounts they keep secret from their spouses. This kind of secrecy can lead to problems that extend far beyond your wallet.

Physicians are often told to choose between clinical practice and entrepreneurship. It shouldn't be an either/or proposition.

Every day, physicians in every type of practice are presented with hard evidence about the one inescapable truth: sooner or later, we’re all going to die. One might think, then, that doctors would exceed the national averages for those who maintain life insurance policies. One would be wrong.

Having a healthy approach to finance management can result in better health by minimizing a major cause of stress.

Free-standing emergency rooms are growing like weeds in many affluent neighborhoods. However, some of the centers are creating problems and attracting the interest of local lawmakers.

Whether you work in the medical profession or another industry, firing someone is one of the hardest things that a supervisor will ever have to do. And giving an employee the heave-ho due to performance issues is a particularly difficult task. It takes skill and savvy to avoid causing a scene, harming office morale and landing your practice in legal trouble.

As St. Patrick's Day approaches, columnist Greg Kelly remembers a family friend and family man who proudly proclaimed his Irish heritage.

A new medical school coming to New Jersey will be the state's first private medical school and, officials hope, a key engine to address the physician shortage.

Peak cherry blossom season is just around the corner in Washington, DC, and with it come a host of family-friendly activities and festivals.

Patient non-adherence to prescription drug regimens has a number of causes. Here are a few, along with some possible solutions.

Target date funds are popular, no-hassle investment vehicles. However, investor error can sap their key strength.

Speyer is the first German stop in our tour of the Rhine River. It's small in population, but large when it comes to attractions and museums.

Work conducted in a recent study identified insights and lessons from successful partnerships between hospitals and public health agencies.

Life as a third year, when you are just beginning to get a sample of the complexity, challenges, and opportunities in clinical care, is much different than life as a resident or a practicing doctor.

Long-term financial uncertainty can be a major cause of stress. Luckily, these seven steps can put you on a secure path forward.

Surveys show patients, particularly those in the Millennial generation, are using social media when making healthcare decisions. So how should physicians respond?

More outfitters are offering trips designed for women only. Here's a look at this mini-trend and some of the available options.

Riches and power top this week’s PMD Critical List. Our top story looks at the richest doctors in the world. Another story looks at a group of physicians who hold incredible power over the US healthcare system, even though they’re not household names.

Doctors get a lot of mixed messages. They're encouraged to think outside the box, but often penalized when they do so.

Here's a look at the five most popular stories on PMD for the week that ended March 11.

Millennials travel differently than Generation Xers and Baby Boomers. A new survey discusses the differences.

The question of whether to be a generalist or a specialist occupies not only the minds of medical students about to choose their career paths on Match Day, but also the minds of physician entrepreneurs.

Falling oil prices, global currency volatility, and geopolitics are shaking up the list of the world’s most expensive cities, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s new Worldwide Cost of Living Survey.