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Physicians are being pressured to change their prescribing habits. How have your colleagues reacted?

Don't pay more than you have to for car insurance. Here's how to grab every discount you're eligible for.

Complaints to the state medical board can cause even more trouble, and still lead to a lawsuit.

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Performance reviews are important for your practice as well as for your employees. Here's how to do them right.

The patients and colleagues in a small West Virginia town helped this scientist learn how to be a physician.

Whether you're paying for your own wedding or someone else's, there are ways to reduce your bill.

Medicare, Cars

Getting your patients to fill their scripts, then actually take them, can be a challenge.

Tormenting students and residents is no way to teach the art of medicine.

Pharmacy-based screenings can be a time saver. But are they accurate? And will you see the results?

Some gifts hold their meaning long after they've lost their usefulness, this author says.

Medicare, Fraud and abuse

Personal experience is one of the best teachers--for physicians as well as patients.

The author relished the role of family medical authority--until her infant niece was hospitalized.

Any of these strategies could pay off big, but most require you to be patient and have nerves of steel.

Our latest survey on fees and reimbursements shows a continuing--and substantial--gap between what you charge and what you get paid.

The author found more than old instruments in a medical bag he inherited.

Our latest survey on fees and reimbursements shows a continuing--and substantial--gap between what you charge and what you get paid.

Quality of Care, Drug Abuse, Tort Reform, Medicaid, Insurance Hassles

You became a doctor to take care of sick people. So what are all these healthy folks doing in your waiting room?

When medical review boards abdicate their responsibility, A bad outcome but no malpractice, Note from the editors

Think twice about using alternative medicines, this physician tells her patients.

Treatment Denials, Health Costs

A veteran medical assistant has some good-natured advice for physicians.

Treatment Denials, Health Costs

A three-day bioterrorism drill, complete with a low-flying crop-duster spewing pretend Yersinia pestis.

The doctor's office is the logical--and sometimes the only--place where people can seek help with their most intimate problems.

Botox? Smooth out the risks

Vigilance is the key. Here are steps you can take right now.