The Best of the Year

The end of a year isn’t just time to make bold predictions for the upcoming year; it’s also the time to look back at what has passed, and 2012 was a year of change for Physician’s Money Digest.

At the end of August, PMD unveiled its new site layout and color scheme, doing away with the old green and blue and the short-lived red and black color schemes.

The election took over as early as September with Economists Make Shocking Election Predictions and then the debates kicked off with Mitt Romney’s crushing defeat of President Barack Obama.

Since the election, we’ve been covering the fiscal cliff from explaining what it is back when the majority of people didn’t know yet and dissecting the taxes and spending cuts to advice on what you can do to make it sting less and the (small amount of) progress made in fiscal cliff talks.

And while you, our readers, got very vocal in the comments of the election articles, there was another topic that spawned some interesting discussions in the comment sections: the physician shortage and physicians looking to leave health care.

However, none of those articles were the most popular of the year. So, in case you missed them, here were the most read articles of 2012:

10. RNs Among Unhappiest Workers

Posted: Aug. 10

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9. The Top 10 Peeves Docs Have About Other Docs

Posted: Feb. 17

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8. Top U.S. Primary Care Schools

Posted: March 14

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7. Top 10 Peeves Doctors Have About Patients

Posted: Feb. 22

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6. 10 Most Commonly Hacked Passwords

Posted: Oct. 31

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5. Most Overrated Jobs of 2012

Posted: Sept. 28

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4. Top 10 Medical Schools in America

Posted: March 15

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3. The Worst States to Retire in 2012

Posted: Feb. 2, 2012

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2. The Rudest Cities in America

Posted: Jan. 23, 2012

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1. Best Places to Retire in 2012

Posted: Jan. 17, 2012

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