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Spending Too Much Time Anxious or Stressed? 5 Steps to Take Control and Shift Your Thinking

Handling stress and balancing life are important ingredients for health and well-being. Stress is unavoidable so it's in our best interest to figure out a way to deal with it. When we are caught up in a stressor sometimes it is hard to gain perspective. If we are anxious, this can lead to catastrophic predictions about what the outcome may be.

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We Need to Improve Access to Mental Health Care. Is Telepsychiatry the Answer?

Telepsychiatry visits are just like any other medical appointments- the only difference is they are conducted from the comfort of your own home or office using live video-conferencing. There are different names used for the same thing: virtual doctor visit, telehealth, telemedicine, telepsychiatry. They all mean the same thing: delivering health care services at a distance.

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It's Time to End MCATs

The University of Denver will no longer require students to submit SAT or ACT scores with their applications joining 1000 other universities making the change. National studies found that high school grades are the best predictor of a student’s future college success, and standardized test scores have a low correlation with persistence and graduation.

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Important Questions You Should be Asking Your Physician

Let me clear up a couple of myths regarding asking your physician questions about your health. Some people feel too afraid or intimidated but the truth is that we want you to ask questions! At least I do...but seriously, I think most doctors do. We want you to understand what's going on so you can take charge of your health.

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Is Light Speed the Answer to Exploring the Cosmos?

Space travel brings out the kid in all of us. The sheer excitement of discovery ignites a wonder in us, and since space is one of the greatest unknowns, what better way to ignite that wonder than space travel? The only problem is, it’s virtually impossible at this point in time to reach these faraway places, which makes it tough to explore them.

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The Innovation Bulb

In one of the chapters of my recent book "the end of the beginning", I elaborate on the need process and flow for real innovation to happen.

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Reputation Risk Management for Physician Entrepreneurs

Whether you are an independent practice owner, an intrapreneur, a technopreneur, a mededupreneur or a social entrepreneur, you will have to learn how to manage risk, not take extreme risk. The three basic categories of risk are 1) personal, professional and career risk, 2) business or corporate risk and 3) financial risk.