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The Doctors' 7 Investment Principles
May 2nd 2008The stock market is bumpy. So what's the average physician-investor to do? According to most financial experts, the best thing to do isâ€"nothing. The key to making money in stocks lies in understanding their long-term nature and accepting the good times and the bad. Steady your nerves with "The Doctors' 7 Investment Principles."
The Physician Inventor: Missing Out on Opportunities is Patently Absurd
April 29th 2008Necessity is the mother of invention. It's that way in every facet of the business world, where the value of a company is no longer based on real estate assets and machinery, but instead measured in terms of its intellectual property assets and patent holdings.
The "Go-To" Book for Investors
April 27th 2008If you're a physician-investor looking for a book that will dramatically improve your chances of making money in the stock market, John Bogle's Little Book of Common Sense Investing is it, according to reviewer Burton Malkiel, who is himself the author of a classic guide to investing, A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
Top 10 Mistakes Physicians Make Regarding Malpractice
April 26th 2008Malpractice. It looms over every medical practice and even the most conscientious physician shutters at its thought. It only takes one mistake, one disgruntled patient, or one unfortunate outcome to compromise a doctor's livelihood.
A "Chilling" $7 Million Settlement
April 25th 2008A Florida radiologist who operated several imaging centers in Boca Raton has agreed to pay $7 million to settle a healthcare fraud lawsuit. The suit charged that Fred Steinberg, MD, the owner of the imaging centers, billed for CT scans that were never performed, performed CT and