Remember the CEO of the Practice Management Group we spoke about last week? Although this group provides a great service as it helps doctors to be more effective in making their specialties known to potential patients and in turn this allows more patients to know about and benefit from the doctor’s care; this doesn’t automatically …

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Apelles the Greek painter is reported to have listened carefully to the cobbler as he told him the shoe in his painting didn’t properly portray reality.  But when the cobbler proceeded to criticize the stance, the face and other parts of the painting Apelles shamelessly told the cobbler to “Stick to his Last.”[i] Like the …

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According to “17 Bizarre Moments From History”[i] this 1923 invention called the “Portable Baby Cage” allowed the modern mother a chance to provide their babies fresh air and sunshine even though she couldn’t get outside. It is reported that future First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt bought into this fad and purchased a cage for her daughter …

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According to Dr. Sally Norton, a weight loss surgeon, “Every single person who comes to discuss weight management is totally perplexed by the advice out there.”[i] “Two thirds of the nation is obese despite our obsession with dieting, and type 2 diabetes, which is strongly associated with obesity, is sky-rocketing.”[ii] Things that they taught us …

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Life is funny.  You can plan and plan for certain things to happen and the probability of things happening just like you planned for is near zero.  That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t plan because without planning chaos would ensue.  But what it does mean is flexibility is important. Without flexibility life can become a disappointment …

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“If you want that girl, then you just go for her.” Those were the words I heard the woman sitting next to me tell the young teenage boy on her right as I flew home from Tampa through Seattle. I had boarded early and was sitting next to the window when a young 20 something …

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History of Term Insurance and how Buy Term and Investing the Difference compares to Whole Life Insurance

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