Work/Life Balance

With a large number of physicians planning to retire in the next few years, it will be important for them to plan ahead before hanging it up.

We crunched the data and ranked each of the 50 states to help you find your next practice home.

Some year-end scams target doctors externally, while others are brought to them by would-be advisors. Here’s a look at both.

Physicians are at risk of insomnia just as much as the general population. Here are six tips to reclaim your rest.

Invigorate and reenergize your practice for the home stretch in 2015. Here are a few ideas to consider.

What is the right amount of time off to give medical practice staff? Is there such a thing as being too generous?

Wondering how to handle unexpected drop-ins at work? Worried about romance at work? Let the Civility CEO help.

My office is understaffed, overworked, and I'm drowning in paperwork. I do not have time for vomiting.

Even though financial and legislative challenges are making it harder to be a physician, docs tell us they haven't given up.

We all know it’s important to insert breathing room into our lives, so why is doing this so hard? It’s important to accept our limits.

Get full results from the 2015 Great American Physician Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, featuring replies from 1,001 physicians nationwide.

There are many things in life physicians have no control over. But, by making deliberate, positive choices, they can often improve a negative situation.

Life insurance is very rarely a good investment. The vast majority of physicians and staff should only buy enough to replace potentially lost income.

There are alternatives to quitting or changing jobs for experienced physicians wary of current changes in healthcare delivery.

If you find yourself reaching the breaking point, stop and consider locum tenens work. It may offer the flexibility and stress relief you are looking for.

As a doctor, your profession makes you more newsworthy and you are held to a higher standard. Not knowing this can cost you.

In order to thwart the trend of high-cost care for lower quality and improve our health knowledge, we must broaden our critical thinking abilities

Being a working parent means that, unfortunately, my kids and I both have to miss things that would enrich us both. How do others do it?

Here are four tips to heed if you don’t want a personal incident to damage your practice’s reputation.

Why using someone with the CFP designation is the correct course of action when looking for advice on finances as a physician.

It can cost up to 10 percent of the value of a home to live in it each year. Here are a few ways home ownership adds up.

Do you have a plan if one of your partners in your medical group retires? If not, start devising one today.

I don't want to stop doing surgery until I'm physically unable to perform safely; however, there are a lot things that I want to do outside of medicine.

Physicians should rethink the paradigm of work-life balance, by making choices that are in synchrony with their priorities and responsibilities.

There are many good reasons physicians should build tech-free time into their busy schedules.

Stress has become the malady of our generation; don't let yourself follow the crowd. Instead draw upon your experience and instinct to carve your own path.

Physicians typically feel they have little control over work-life balance, but they have the power to improve their emotional resilience. Here's how.

I can say I've had a rewarding 40-year career in medicine, in a number of roles. But I wonder how will I fill my time in retirement?

My challenge to my fellow physicians is to find ways to bring the health coaching you do for your patients to your staff.

Rushing to increase the daily workload can not only harm patients, but physicians as well.