We often cover smartphone apps that help you do your job better, but we know even doctors need some downtime. With that in mind, we've compiled a list of the great apps that can be used daily by just about anyone.
Paul Fleenor, DO, volunteers with Connecting Kids with Care to provide orphans and other underserved individuals better access to quality health care.
Physicians who'll thrive best in the future will be those most prepared for vexing, unwarranted, and time-consuming malpractice suits. To join their ranks, use these safe, inexpensive, proven malpractice defense strategies.
Medical professionals are naturally mindful of the risk of claims on their assets, but many wrongly assume that having adequate professional malpractice insurance is protection enough. They’re overlooking other types of claims — those having nothing to do with their professional practices.
The number of retirees is surging. The last thing pre-retirees want to do at this stage of their lives is to fumble while in the red zone of their retirement date.
People buying insurance plans under "Obamacare" will have limited access to some of the leading U.S. hospitals, including two renowned cancer centers, as insurers try to cut costs.
Procrastinating on saving for your retirement, even by five years, can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars during your golden years. Regardless of your income, you cannot afford to not participate in retirement programs.
A new study throws cold water on the popular idea that consumers can save themselves and the healthcare system loads of money if they become savvier shoppers for healthcare services.
As alternative investments, managed futures values have a low or negative correlation to traditional investments and can fortify portfolios against the kind of market events that we experienced in 2008.
Despite watching the market rise, the bigger issue with transitioning your portfolio to cash is that, when trying to time the markets, you must be right twice.
A victory in court rejects a challenge to the ACA's health care marketplaces.
“Financial Planning” and “Financial Planner” can have various and sometimes misleading meanings.
Currently, fitness data gathered and stored by wearable fitness trackers, can potentially be sold to third parties, like employers, insurance providers, and other companies, without the users' knowledge or consent.
Right now global growth in unconventional oil and gas is a pipe dream. The action, profits and share growth are all happening with companies right here in the United States.
As a physician, your income likely puts you in the top marginal federal income tax bracket. There are four ways to potentially save taxes, and you should look into them now.
As the end of another calendar year approaches you may find yourself with a desire to give to a specific charity or perhaps the need for a tax deduction.
Healthcare practices continue to suffer from embezzlement problems. While there is no such thing as a perfect system to prevent embezzlers, there are ways to deter them.
It's difficult to do, but you should try to stay focused on your long-term goals and investments. However, studies show investors let their emotions dictate when they buy and sell.
Friday's unemployment numbers are being watched closely by investors and unless surprising strength in the labor market emerges, it could bring the stock market back from September's heady run. Pressure has become broad-based, such that all 10 major sectors in the broader market are now in the red.
The real advantage with options is the opportunity to make money if a stock goes up, down and, depending on your strategy, even sideways.
Between income, capital gains, Medicare, self-employment and other taxes, physicians spend up to 50 percent of their working hours laboring for the IRS and the state. Here are four tax-savings strategies that may help ease the burden.
Buying a college education is a lot like buying a car. If only one model and color will make you happy, you have no bargaining power. If you are willing to consider any vehicle that can take you where you want to go, there are many opportunities to save money.
A new app to help with a patient's medication adherence has introduced numerous features that may be beneficial, including a rewards system.
Some economists say the housing market isn't just diving off a 10-ft. board into a swimming pool, it may be about to plunge off a 100-ft. cliff into the ocean. Another wave of foreclosures looms, which could further drag down home values. So should you sell now, or wait to buy? Hold on.
In an ideal world informed consumers would insist on software that is easy to understand and easy to use. Unfortunately becoming a fully informed consumer is a lengthy and difficult process.
The number of ambulatory surgery centers or ASCs - which perform procedures such as colonoscopies, cataract removal, joint repairs and spinal injections on patients who don't require an overnight stay in a hospital - has increased dramatically in the past decade, for reasons both clinical and financial.
With the commercial real estate market in tatters, should equity investors be buying real estate investment trusts, or REITs, in anticipation of a coming recovery?
These traits are common behavioral characteristics that work against your investment returns, usually because you are too emotionally involved in the decision-making process.