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Being frugal is smart, and these days, it's fashionable too. But going too far in your attempts to save can have financial consequences that may leave you significantly worse off. Here are nine ways you shouldn't cut corners.

For the fifth time this year, Congress has voted to postpone steep Medicare pay cuts for doctors. The latest vote gives doctors a year's reprieve from the 25% pay cut, which some have said would keep them from accepting new Medicare patients.

There's a massive doctor shortage coming. One solution: develop artificial intelligence that is as good as a real physician at diagnosis. But even if this is possible, will patients be willing to trust robot doctors with their health?

About once every two weeks a worker at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston gets flagged by a team of about a dozen monitors for violating the hospital's strict policy on social media. The policy prohibits employees from doing such things as griping about having to go to work on their Facebook...

Odds are, your smart phone is full of apps to help you live your life: games, task management, e-mail and more. You may even have an application like WebMD, but did you know there are other medical apps on the market, or coming soon, that might save you a trip to the doctor's office? Thanks to...

Long a must-have for stars and the very rich, concierge doctors are becoming more common among middle class folks who are fed up with long waits and rushed visits in traditional practices. These patients are willing to pay a price for doctors who are available 24/7 and who make house calls.

You accidentally filet your finger with your sharpest kitchen knife. Your daughter breaks her arm at a gymnastics meet. Or the fool who's texting while driving totals your car -- with you in it. At some point in life, chances are you'll be taking a trip to the emergency room. Some 120 million...

We're already totally comfortable using the Web to pay bills, shop for books, look for mates and reveal to the world our darkest secrets -- checked out PostSecret lately? So are we ready to go online to talk to a doctor about our migraines and our leaky bladders? If you ask digital-consultations...

While the supposed "death panels" that would decide whether granny lives or dies have grabbed headlines recently, it seems that the public furor that they have generated may be the least of concerns for health care reformers. More troublesome for President Obama is the fact that a persistent...

Almost nothing spoils a vacation more than being forced to sit out the fun because you're sick -- although you'll probably feel even worse once you're handed a huge doctor's bill because you didn't buy travel medical insurance. Still, don't let that scare you into coughing up cash for additional...