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With health care continuously in flux, physicians of all stripes have often wondered how to maintain their income and achieve financial goals while avoiding burnout. Although ancillary revenue streams have decreased and overhead costs have increased over the years, the single most powerful wealth creator in human history has remained constant: Compound interest.

APPs have become an integral and fundamental part of interdisciplinary oncology care.

Selecting an investment advisor can be an important decision for an orthopedic surgeon’s long-term financial security. In this third article of a three-part series on investing, the leading options orthopedists have for professional investment advice are compared. Most orthopedic surgeons, at some point in their careers, will likely choose between these options based on their specific circumstances and preferences.

In the first part of this three-part series, we discussed potential pitfalls of investing alone, without the assistance of a professional. This article focuses on the type of professional duty a financial advisor has to a client and why that is important to understand when deciding who to trust with one’s hard-earned savings.

This year, the APAO Public Education Standing Committee partnered with the Central Secretariat to suggest two themes for the event: meibomian gland dysfunction and age-related macular degeneration. Two of APAO’s Subspecialty Member Societies, the Asia Cornea Society and Asia-Pacific Vitreo-retina Society, will co-organize the 2019 Eye Care Week and help to produce a comprehensive set of educational materials and a media kit, available on the APAO website. Member societies are invited to use the reference materials for public educational purposes during the 9th Asia-Pacific Eye Care Week. For ideas on educational or service activities that can be held during Eye Care Week, take a look at reports from previous events.

In 1981, 80 men met in a New York City apartment to raise money to fight “gay cancer,” a deadly illness that was mostly affecting men who have sex with men in New York City and California. This informal meeting would become the foundation of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis — the world’s first advocacy organization for HIV/AIDS.

CooperVision asked the Federal Trade Commission to consider patient safety, the eye care provider’s expertise, stronger enforcement and the use of technology for prescription verification as it evaluates proposed changes to the Contact Lens Rule.

A novel implantable cardioverter defibrillator system without an atrial lead was similar to dual-chamber ICDs and superior to single-chamber ICDs at detecting atrial high-rate episodes, according to the results of the SENSE trial.

This is the first of a three-part series on how an orthopedic surgeon will get investment advice during his or her lifetime. This article focuses on the decision to use a professional advisor. In the second installment, we will discuss the one fundamental issue orthopedic surgeons must understand when choosing an investment advisor. The final article will outline the various types of financial advisors and describe the pros and cons of each type.

Balloon atrial septostomy appears to be safe and is associated with hemodynamic improvements in patients with advanced pulmonary artery hypertension, according to findings published in CHEST.