Lifestyle

One of the biggest challenges physicians face is adjusting their financial behavior (and often that of their spouses), so that they develop habits of wealth.

Lessening adverse cognitive aging effects on investment decisions.

Both inflation and deflation are serious potential risks to your investment portfolio. Nonetheless, few physicians adequately understand these risks and properly hedge against them. For a variety of reasons, these risks may become even more pronounced.

A cruise through Northern Europe brought the Andersons closer to medical museums than they thought possible.

Starting an entrepreneurial physician venture is risky, but an even more risky period in the life span of your business is when it's time to expand.

The large variety of managed care plans offered by the Medicare Advantage program may be counterproductive.

Physician networks and hospitals can potentially become insurers under a new federally-funded program called the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan.

UpToDate is the go-to reference for physicians at all stages, covering over 8,500 medical topics that are authored, edited, and reviewed by over 4,400 expert clinicians. Now it has finally hit the iPhone as an app.

The particular events that cause a market decline will always vary. What shouldn't vary is the way you respond to it as an investor.

Since 2005 the U.S. has been experiencing increasing drug shortages that affect all segments of the health care community.

For the busy physician these financial apps will help you deposit checks without leaving the office, track your investments in one place and make researching stocks easy.

Nearly all physicians working in high-risk specialties can expect to face at least one malpractice claim during their careers.

The housing market is more of a mess now than a year ago, with some markets drastically undervalued and other overvalued. Eventually, these will have to correct themselves.

The issue of VIP treatment gets sticky when doctors consciously, or unconsciously, change their manner and behavior when confronted with such a personality. Because fair or not, a VIP's opinion matter more and can impact a doctor's reputation.

People who spend more than 21 days a month traveling are 92% more likely to be obese than those who travel less than a week per month.

Despite slight compensation increases, the 2011 Medical Group Compensation and Financial Survey found continued financial losses in most regions of the U.S.

The initial Physician Group Practice Demonstration has shown positive results.

What to do with your money in these volatile times.

A poll showed that there is a disparity between payments collected prior to service and the recovery rate of money owed afterward.

Even though the market is recovering from the last two weeks, health care companies are still trading at steep discounts and would be worth picking up.

A reader wonders if he can plan for retirement with the expectation that he will be working a part-time job. But that income may affect some of the perks of retirement.

What exactly makes a really good receptionist? And what can physicians do to help the receptionist succeed and feel appreciated?

Despite the recession companies have more than doubled the size of the average clinical research operations department.

The ECG has been an integral part of medical practice for decades. Given its wide role in medicine, it is one of the skills taught to all medical students regardless of career path.

Tech stocks are worth a lot of money, but some people are worried that it might just be the result of a bubble. Truth is, tech might be the best place to put your money right now.

If you've been practicing medicine for more than 10 years and have accumulated some assets and are saving regularly, you should be far wealthier now than you were two years ago. And that's even accounting for the great recession of 2008.

Teva Pharmaceuticals cannot receive approval for a general form of Viagra for another eight years, according to a court ruling.

By viewing patients as customers, hospitals can come up with and implement services that will keep patients satisfied and engender loyalty.