Lifestyle

“Fall is one of the most underrated travel seasons of the year. The weather is still great, the crowds are lighter, and there are amazing deals to be scored,” according to Hotwire.

Stepping, even hesitantly, into this presidential election is like putting yourself inside of a pair of scissors. Or kissing the 3rd rail, pick your metaphor. Anyway, here are some interesting facts and studies relevant to this season, if anybody cares about such things anymore.

I visited the lovely city of San Francisco earlier this year. It's easy to spend a boatload there, but we managed not to break the budget.

While innovation is the new coin of the sick care realm, most of what is called innovation is incremental process improvement, tinkering, or worse, a solution looking for a problem.

Doctors who aspire to be business owners can build a business brick by brick, creating a product, looking for the right location, and figuring out how to comply with all of the legal loopholes.

A Chinese folktale goes like this: a magnificent Buddha statute sits at the mountain top where worshipers climb 100s of 1000s of steps of stairs to arrive at his foot and to kneel down in prayers.

If you listen to financial news, you may have heard about this thing called "short selling".

Graying women who divorce need to determine ahead of time how a divorce would impact them economically.

The 12 inaugural exhibits in the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, in Washington, DC, present three broad and interconnected themes: history, community, and culture.

The rumor mill has it that Apple is putting its toes in the turbulent waters of sick care.

Here’s what to include in a visit to Europe. And since the currency of physician travel is always time, here’s how to do it efficiently.

Three of the top challenges facing healthcare organizations in 2017 are: the transition from volume-based healthcare to value-based healthcare, rising costs, and talent shortages.

Feeling powerless when the Taiwanese creditor/mafia showed up at our door, banging and shouting to see my dad, the debtor, and worrying about my dad losing an extremity each time he left the house to re-negotiate pay back terms with the mafia, personal finance resourcefulness became a survival necessity.

Social security or other entitlement program reforms, like privatizing the VA, are referred to as third rails because no politician who wants to get elected or re-elected (100%) will touch them.

Interested in financial independence or an early retirement? An increase in income with no increase in spending can get you there years sooner.

Being a successful clinician requires demonstrating competencies in decision-making, technical expertise, and communication skills. Unfortunately, during medical training, the latter is ignored.

With the fall of leaves and the drop in temperature, there is a rising level of anxiety as interview season closes in upon senior medical students.

Results of a recent study by Quest Diagnostics found that more than half of adults and 44% of children misused their prescription medications.

What would it look like if you bought one investment property a year?

Doctors are looking for more information on their patients in an effort to predict health problems. That story tops this week’s PMD Critical List.

The problem with many minimal viable products is their developers start with the wrong mentality and mindset.

Delegating tasks to your staff is often viewed as a last ditch effort to create more time in your day, but it’s a very valuable skill to have at your disposal.

Gambling addiction is another one of those afflictions that people are uncomfortable to acknowledge and talk about – but it is much more widespread than most of us are aware.

Whether or not a mortgage is worthwhile to you depends on its interest rate and expected forward interest rates, as well as your stage in life and other factors.

Simply stated, tax drag is the amount that your returns in a taxable account are decreased by taxes. It is commonly given as a percentage of the portfolio

One of the most memorable moments I remember from medical school was when one of my family medicine attendings told me

There are simple, easy ways anyone can make extra cash, including busy full time docs.

America’s physicians are changing their practice patterns in ways that will inhibit patient access to care, and they are largely disengaged from the mechanisms of healthcare reform such as value-based payments, accountable care organizations, and electronic medical records…