Burnout of young doctors affects careers, recruiting and patient care
...hting jobs. Residents with heavy education-related debts were more likely to moonlight. Thirty-five percent of the residents in this study reported four or five symptoms of depression, a figure higher than estimates for the adult U.S. population. Sixty-one percent of the residents reported becoming more c...Health insurance scams leave thousands with large medical debts and no coverage
...100,000 people with millions of dollars in medical debts and no coverage, according to a new report from Th...e with approximately $85 million in unpaid medical debts and without health coverage. While no state is immune to the problem of unauthorized plans, some h...Smoking hurts wealth as well as health, study suggests
..., and auto values, among other assets. Outstanding debts were subtracted from that total. The participants in this study were between 33 and 40 years old in 1998, the last year of this study, Zagorsky said. By that time in their lives, they had not accumulated much wealth. The average net worth of all part......n umbrella that melts in the rain." "When medical debts and lost income from illnesses leave families facing a mountain of bills, bankruptcy is their last chance to stop the collection calls and try to put their lives back on track.," noted Elizabeth Warren, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard and a ...