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Pick Up the Damn Phone

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In this day and age of expected hyper-productivity, some think accepting unsolicited calls are a waste of precious time. Here's why they're wrong.

Do you have student loans? Wouldn't you love to destroy them and be debt-free? I'd like to invite you to join me in a movement to terminate the deadly burden of student loans.

I've written previously about the 5 Best reasons to retire early. Today, I present the counterpoint, the Top 5 Reasons Not to Retire Early.

Buy/sell agreements, also known as buyout agreements, help ensure partners in a business have a plan, and a financial arrangement, if one partner withdraws or is unable to carry on in the business.

Economists like to follow leading and lagging indicators. When it comes to tracking biomedical and clinical innovation and entrepreneurship, they should pay attention to patient and physician entrepreneurs as leading indicators.

A group of more than 100 prominent physicians and professors is sounding the alarm about the dangers of holding this summer’s Olympics at the epicenter of the Zika Virus crisis. That story tops this week’s PMD Critical List. Also making the list: House calls lead to cost savings, even as the average family of four sees its health cost soaring.

Doctors are being pounded to teach to the test. But every patient-student is different and each is smart in their own way.

Patients are terrible consumers of sick care services. Most attribute it to the lack of price and quality of care transparency and the incentives to make rational purchases. Behavioral economists have a more complex answer.