Editor's Note: This article was written by James Quinn, a senior director of strategic planning for a major university. James has held high-level financial positions wit

The scariest thing about the health care reform bill is not the vision of granny-killers roaming hospital corridors. It’s the fact that few rational people seem to grasp how it really may chang

Tom Rath, longtime Gallup researcher and author of Vital Friends: The People You Can’t Afford to Live Without, offers some fascinating data on the intrinsic connection between liking the people

Traveling for medical treatment dates back to the ancient Greeks, who believed that Asklepios, the god of healing, smiled upon people who went to Epidauria, the Lourdes of the Saronic Gulf.Health-car

You've been sitting in a crowded doctor’s office for 2 hours, and there's still no sign you'll be called. You’ve run out of things to do. You spent 30 minutes filling out forms

Editor's Note: Chuck LeBeau is the founder of SmartStops.net. This is his first piece for Minyanville.With baby boomers creeping closer and closer to retirement -- and the number of uninsured America

Attention, physicians practicing in Vermont: Put down that Pfizer (PFE) Frisbee. Hand in your GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) promotional jump rope. Your days of f

Equity markets had their biggest rally this year after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined steps to fix the banking industry in a morning address. His remarks, delivered to the Counci

What a day it was for the market. Turnaround Tuesday definitely lived up to the hype.Citigroup (C) came out and said they had 2 profitable quarters through the first 3 months of this year; all the ba

The stock market is on a tear this morning on the heels of a statement by CEO Vikram Pandit that Citigroup (C) has a profit for the first 2 months of 2009. In a letter sent to employees Monday,