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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

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Rather than do the conceptually hard and convention-challenging reorganizations of systems and finances required to truly transform care, it is easier to suggest tweaking the system and encouraging patients to use more primary care — and let primary care take it from there. And if they are different, which one should be higher?

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How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent

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Examples: making a will, investigating a lump, succession planning for your business, actually reading your insurance policies, or creating that crisis management plan. Likewise, when it comes to money, there are certain personal finance bloggers I like to read from time to time to help me stay on track.

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How Being a Workaholic Differs from Working Long Hours — and Why That Matters for Your Health

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Hanna, a finance director at an international home care retailer, works long hours. Michael, the director of strategy for an American insurance company, does not work as much as Hanna. Hayon Thapaliya for HBR. She sometimes also works on weekends. She hasn’t had to worry about her health.

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