Lifestyle

When it comes to patient care, a team approach is often necessary to produce the best results. The same is true with financial planning.

Financial writing often buries the pearls of wisdom under a pile of chaff. This week, columnist Jeff Brown, MD, winnows down the bluster to offer some essential financial truths.

These free apps help you document an item's condition before you rent it and also let you know just how bad the environment is for your particular allergies or for your patients' allergies.

In most situations, Medicare won't pay for healthcare supplied outside the United States. Given the growth of overseas retirement, the government should consider changing that policy.

As value-based healthcare becoming the new standard, doctors and patients are seeing many differences in their every day lives. What it means going forward has yet to be determined.

A big part of your retirement planning is anticipating your expenses while in retirement. However, some potential expenses are more difficult to quantify than others. Here's a look at three items to watch out for.

It might seem that the last people in the world who would need help with outplacement services would be doctors, medical students, and bioscience graduate students. However, some recent trends indicate that the demand for these kind of services will be increasing.

Neuropsychology contributes to our understanding of why we make the economic decisions we do.

When it comes to lodging, if hotels can charge for something, there's a good chance some will. Here's a look at some common hotel fees, and how to avoid or minimize them.

Social Security was never meant to be the sole source of income for retirees, yet for many Americans it's an important source of funding during the retirement years. Here's a primer on the decisions you'll face when preparing to collect benefits.

Triple Crown winner American Pharoah recently raced at New Jersey's Haskell Invitational. Columnist Greg Kelly caught the race, and shares his experiences, as well as the story of the horse's physician connection.

Most physicians need disability insurance, but they don't necessarily need a Cadillac plan. Follow these tips to get an adequate, if not extravagant, policy.

Industry shifts and culture clashes mean some physicians are finding themselves getting pink-slipped by their health system employers. If that happens to you, follow these 10 tips.

The recession ended seven years ago, but the health of the nation's housing markets varies widely by region. Here's a look at 10 of the metropolitan regions that are in the best shape.

Whatever retirement plan you have, at least you have something, right? Unfortunately it's most likely not enough. If you are like most other people, you likely have huge gaps where your retirement plan can fail.

When you decided to be a physician, you probably made a choice pretty early on in your academic pursuits: What type of physician do you want to be? When you begin investing, you should ask a similar question.

Doctors are having a hard enough time taking care of one patient at a time. Expecting them to do much more is just another straw.

Would you like to enjoy greater personal, professional and financial rewards in your practice? Work with patients with whom you are a good fit.

Physician entrepreneurs and physician journalists contribute a lot to society and its improvement. But, both have to know their boundaries and where to draw the line to be effective.

In today's technology age, we want information when we want it. Which often means right now. And from tablets and smart phones, to smart watches and health monitoring devices, having that availability of information readily at our fingertips has become the norm.

Much of the fun of a cruise can be the shore excursions. However, not every shore excursion is a good time or a good value. Here's a primer on how to evaluate your excursion options.

A new study probes the lingering pay disparity between male and female physicians at US hospitals. That story tops this week's PMD Critical List. Also making the list: A look at smartphones are becoming more prevalent in US clinics, as are nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Student loans can feel like an albatross to physicians just starting their careers. These seven tips will help physicians hasten the demise of their debt burden.

It seemed like a simple request, but it turned out to be one with as many answers as there were airline service people handling our calls.

Would you like to attract more patient referrals, motivate your staff to be kinder to grumpy patients and increase patient compliance? Learn sales skills!

With change comes risk. While staying where you are now might feel safe, in the future, it reality might be a very dangerous place.

With masses of Baby Boomers headed toward retirement, they and their adult children will soon face myriad legal and financial questions. As with most things, however, a little proactive preparation can go a long way.

A New York City clinician admits she's not the type of person who can sit still. But it's a different story when she's around birds.

The choice between impulse buying and delayed gratification can have a major impact on our finances. It turns out there's a neurological explanation for this.

With value-based healthcare becoming more prominent doctors are having to change the way they approach their practice. Whether it is the way they treat their patients or their ability to work as independent practitioners, there are many questions physicians need to answer on a daily basis.