http://roundsonline.org The Blog for Physicians Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:16:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now there are three states in the US where doctors can participate in a terminally ill patient’s decision to end their suffering by ending their life. Montana joined Oregon and Washington in allowing their doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill patients who want to end their life. The ... http://roundsonline.org/index.php/2010/09/physician-assisted-suicide-gets-green-light-from-montana-supreme-court/ Ok, here’s the hot scoop from the National Academy of Sciences. The Ashkenazi Jewish community, which is known for its disproportionately large number of centenarians, appears to be blessed with longer telomeres and with a mutant enzyme that keeps their telomeres longer…for longer…much longer. Scientists seem to ... http://roundsonline.org/index.php/2010/09/size-does-matter/ by Brian Picariello, CPA/PFS, CFA, Traust Sollus Wealth Management, 609-779-6700, bpicariello@tswealth.com A doctor’s chief occupation is helping to cure the sick. Answering this calling, however, does not preclude the desire or the need for a doctor to earn a good living whether she works on staff at a hospital or ultimately ... http://roundsonline.org/index.php/2010/09/financial-management-your-second-full-time-job/ As young, graduating residents and fellows prepare to move from abject poverty to relative prosperity with a new employment contract and a respectable salary, their thoughts often turn to establishing a residence, getting married, starting a family and buying many of those deferred “things” that they could not afford as ... http://roundsonline.org/index.php/2010/08/tenancy-by-the-entiretysomething-every-doctor-should-know-about/ I recently provided an example of how much a trillion dollars was. I was prompted to this nonsensical task by an article that listed not only our current national debt but the trillions of dollars in personal debt we are all carrying. Our national debt is growing at ... http://roundsonline.org/index.php/2010/08/what-comes-after-a-trillion/ If you knew that you were ten times more likely to get Alzheimer’s than the average person but could do nothing about it…would you want to know? If you knew that your brother was at 100 times the average risk of dieing of a heart attack but there was ... http://roundsonline.org/index.php/2010/08/destiny-a-glimpse-behind-the-curtain/ Guest Contributor: Mark Maurer, President, PhysicianInsure When most people think of life insurance, they think of it as something they need in their personal lives. But the benefits of life insurance extend way beyond the family unit into protection for businesses and key employees. Of course, life insurance is a ... http://roundsonline.org/index.php/2010/08/life-insurance-201-insuring-your-practice/ Well, the tentacles of government continue to wrap themselves around our day to day life…and death...in increasingly tight coils. Here is the latest “initiative.” It would seem that New York assemblyman, Richard Brodsky, D – Westchester, has decided that organ donations are not meeting demand and the government ... http://roundsonline.org/index.php/2010/08/slippery-slope/ Insurance companies are businesses. They are for the most part corporations. Corporations are owned by stock holders. Stockholders hold stock because they expect that the company will be run intelligently and make money, thus providing a return on their investment. If there is no profit, there ... http://roundsonline.org/index.php/2010/08/actuaries%e2%80%a6an-endangered-species/ By Stacy Francis, Francis Financial, Inc., www.FrancisFinancial.com While donating money to worthy causes is something we think is great; gifting to charities can be greater still when you donate appreciated stock instead of cash. The tax advantages can be worth it. That's because as long as you have held the shares ... http://roundsonline.org/index.php/2010/08/gifting-to-charities-what-a-wonderful-reward-in-more-ways-than-one/