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With Match Day coming up in a couple of weeks, we look at the importance and the quirks of this medical student tradition.

Value-based care is designed to curb fast-rising healthcare costs. Here's an outline of what it will mean for hospitals.

At the heart of the physician shortage is a shortage of primary care physicians. In this week's Alemian File, David Alemian argues that better retirement plans would help rural and underserved areas attract primary care doctors.

A tour of the Rhine River takes travelers to four countries, including the gorgeous cities of Basel and Colmar.

When saving for retirement, you'll undoubtedly run into a mix of solid and dubious advice. These myths could derail your goals.

Two of the challenges of travel are making sure you get there with everything you need and making sure you get home without any unwanted souvenirs like bug bites or associated health problems. Here's some advice to help with both.

As more Americans live longer and work later, more people are having to face the reality of required minimum distributions from their tax-deferred retirement vehicles. Here's what you need to know.

Healthcare requires a mix of regulation and market power, but what do we do when the two no longer balance each other out?

A new national study suggests surgical residents benefit from longer shifts, seemingly defying the notion that such lengthy periods are too grueling. That story tops this week’s PMD Critical List. Also making the list: Congress and the president find a way to confirm a nominee, and Elvis Presley’ personal physician has “left the building.â€

Learning vacations are trendy. The trips pair hands-on training with beautiful locations. One such opportunity is a woodworking trip in Maryland.

If you're an avid traveler, chances are you've got a list of well-known places you'd like to visit one day. These 10 destinations may not be well known, but they certainly warrant a spot on your travel "bucket list."

Low gas prices ought to be bad news for the electric car market, but there's a strong case for going electric even at a time of strikingly low gas prices.

Physician entrepreneurship has changed from being a curiosity to becoming mainstream in five short years. As that's happened, these fault lines and trends have formed.

Spring, when the Sonoran desert blooms, is a great time to visit Arizona. In the morning play golf on world-class courses or explore the desert. In the afternoon when temperatures rise, go indoors to visit museums, browse art galleries, and get pampered at the region’s noted spas.

The rise of Donald Trump has been one of the biggest surprises in recent political history. We take a look at what the GOP frontrunner would change with regard to taxes and healthcare if his presidential bid succeeds.

At its hear, Harper Lee's classic novel was about innocence meeting evil. Healthcare could learn from Scout Finch as it confronts a industry tides that aren't always patient-centered.

Investors of all shapes and sizes make mistakes. Young investors are prone to similar mistakes. In this article tackle three of the most common mistakes.

A recent study proposed approaches to dealing with and minimizing the complexities of debt. We take a look at its applications for physicians.

With the Oscars just around the corner, columnist Greg Kelly remembered some of his favorite physician-focused films.

The integration of robots into healthcare could lead to all kinds of possibilities -- good and bad, expected and unexpected.

Nice, the largest city in the Côte d’Azur on the French Riviera, has something for the art lover, the food lover, and the nature lover.

A new study looked at which makes and models of cars get the most and fewest traffic violations. Here are the Top 10 in each category.

Inspired by last week's column on lawyer jokes, Travel columnist Eric Anderson, MD, takes a turn at legal laughs.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio calls himself a true conservative and a fiscal hawk. What would his policies mean for you if he wins the presidential election?

Rural hospitals face an increasingly difficult task when it comes to recruiting physicians. However, the problem could be alleviated if those healthcare organizations offered a new pension plan.

The data dilemma is that as data becomes more and more important, patients are less willing to share it because of privacy and security concerns.

Researchers have identified seven components that are instrumental in working towards improved systems integration and controlling healthcare costs incurred through chronic disease management.

A Florida teen gets caught pretending to be a doctor, a Harvard-trained physician tells his story of drug dependence, and a new study looks at why the results of so many clinical trials go unpublished. Those stories top this week’s PMD Critical List

Airbnb, the company that enables travelers to rent a couch, a spare bedroom, condo, or home from locals, is more and more popular with those on Spring Break—college students and families.

With more and more medical students having limited clinical half-lives, and more even skipping residency training, perhaps it's time to offer some other alternative career pathway directly to the boardroom instead of the bedside.