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Physiciansâ€"those who are millionaires and those who aspire to beâ€"should consider the following real-world risks that can permanently disable even the wealthiest of families.

In an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's website with hundreds of pictures.

The upward trend in the number of countries that fail to provide the most basic of health services to children in order to save their lives is extremely disturbing.

As a recovering cardiac patient, I would much rather be safe than sorry as far as any possibility of blood clots are concerned; Plavix has worked quite well in my medicine regimen.

Peter S. Moskowitz, MD, Executive Director and Career and Life Coach for medical professionals at the Center for Professional and Personal Renewal, Clinical Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, gives advice to physicians on personal and professional growth.

Should pediatricians be doing more? Neither the pediatrician's office nor the children's hospital I've visited lately make available to parents the information that the AAP would like for people to consider.

You can't build a house from the roof down, and you can't build a financial fortune that way either. You have to build a foundation first.

The time pressures imposed on primary care physicians by Medicare and many managed care plans are causing a communications crisis between doctors and patients, according to a recent OpEd piece in the Nashua Telegraph. The author, Kevin Pho, MD, a primary care doctor

My experience tells me that most physicians consider themselves to be middle class typesâ€"disdaining the "wealthy" title. And there's much to support that claim todayâ€"thanks to declining incomes and rising costs in medical practice.

To be asked if I washed my hands makes me feel as if my professionalism is being doubted. Is it just me being defensive or is there something demeaning about being questioned like that?

Young director Stephen Walker threatens to dispel our stereotypes about the geriatric community, which currently accounts for nearly 46% of the total US population.

When it comes to investing, risk is not a dirty word. Indeed, taking on risk is essential to building wealth, since the rewards of a riskier investment are often, but of course not always, larger than those found in relatively lower-yielding securities like US Treasuries or triple-AAA-rated bonds.

It never hurts to evaluate new opportunities in your medical practice and in your life. In coaching and consulting with small and large practices, I tend to find a common weaknessâ€"difficulty evaluating opportunity.

How fair is it to ask families making 30 to 50,000 dollars to buy healthcare for 15,000 dollars?

What prompted me to get personal liability insurance was an article about a woman suing Best Buy for $54 million.

A federal review of insulin pump use by adolescents over a period of 10 years found that 13 deaths and more than 1,500 injuries were connected with the pumps.

Major storms throughout the country along with the nation's impending hurricane season (June 1 to November 30), point up the need for flood insurance on your home. Unfortunately, most flood victims don't

If you're like most people, you're thrilled at being offered a job, and the untold riches that await you if you work really hard. You've been given assurances, promises, guarantees, pats on the back, maybe even a few ‘atta-boy' congratulations.

It's a disturbing fact that physicians have the highest rate of suicide of any American profession. According to Charles F. Reynolds, MD, author of a paper on depression in the medical profession, undiagnosed and untreated depression is the problem.

Who gives worse customer service than airlines? Healthcare providers, say nearly 20% of Americans responding to a recent survey by Katzenbach Partners, a management consulting firm. Four out of 10 of those surveyed

Most medical practices today are failingâ€"not necessarily going out of business (though many are doing that every day) but failing to fulfill the potential the physician envisioned in those halcyon days of medical school. Most doctors who own their own practice don't own a true business but a jobâ€"doing it, doing it, doing itâ€"hoping like to get some time off, but never figuring out how to get their practice to run without them.

House calls, once on the healthcare endangered list, have been making a comeback. But instead of a physician with a black bag, the visiting healthcare professional is more likely to be a nurse practitioner armed with a laptop computer.

I'm sure you have friends, family members, or medical colleagues who are very aggressive with the tax deductions they claim. And every year they tell you about all of the crazy things they deducted last year. And then they usually try to convince you that what they deducted must be okay, since the IRS never disallowed any of their deductions from last year.

Wow, is the tax code complicated. Does the complex set of rules cause you to be surprised by the amount of money you end up paying or getting back on your taxes each year?

With US home prices cratering, you may decide to remodel your house instead of trying to sell it. One of the things you want to think about before you start on your home improvement project, is how much of your investment you'll get back when you eventually sell the house.

The 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."

As the American Heart Association reminds at this time of year, exercising outside in hot and humid conditions is hard on your heart.

Social exposure to other children, including that which occurs at daycare and play groups, has an effect of reducing the risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia as much as 30% to 40%.

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There lies an issue with the automatic rejection of some patients because they use "illicit substances." How far does our advocacy for our patients go?