Felix Chesterfield

Top Complaints in US Healthcare

One would have to dig very hard to find a greater hot button political topic in the United States than healthcare. It is a subject where every politician will publicly agree that change is necessary, but almost nobody can agree on what that change needs ... Read >

How to Determine the Top Medical Schools

Rankings, by their very nature, are tough to gauge. Not only is data within the various criteria often subjective and tough to accurately obtain, but often it is the criteria itself that may not be overly applicable to the subject. That is why any magaz... Read >

How to Write a Successful Admission Essay for Nursing School

Like most other things, writing an essay is a skill. Unfortunately, for nursing students, it is skill that is all too often neglected. Some would-be nurses do not view it as a critical part of the application process compared to their academic record or... Read >

Should I Retake the MCAT Exam?

Any student who wishes to go to medical school and become a doctor has heard of the MCAT. It’s the SAT or ACT for medical students. It is the standardized test that plays a heavy role in the admissions process for most institutions. Many students how t... Read >

How to Study for a Comprehensive Final Exam

One of the great difficulties between high school and college is the prevalence of comprehensive final exams. In high school, most courses test primarily on the material that has been covered since the previous test. In college, suddenly students are ex... Read >

Going to an International School

Going to an international school can provide a number of wonderful benefits. It offers the opportunity to gain a different type of understanding and perspective that would be impossible to obtain within the borders of the United States. For students loo... Read >

Accredited Foreign Medical Schools

If it seems that there is wide variety in type and quality of medical school in the United States – well, that is nothing compared to the variety in type and quality that can be found from foreign institutions. International medical schools are created f... Read >

How to Teach a Puppy to Sit

There is an old adage regarding the difficulty of teaching old dogs new tricks, but many owners also find difficulty with training new dogs as well. For those of you out there who fit into this latter group – fear not! Any dog is trainable with the righ... Read >

Dealing with the Physician Shortage

Health care reform is one of the nation’s biggest hot button political issues right now. One cannot even bring it up in a crowded room without starting a vehement debate. Typically the reform debate falls on the pricing structure. This is typically dir... Read >

Coffee Market News for 2011

Lost in the delicious cup of morning java is that coffee is actually a product and a commodity. While often viewed as a very traditional drink – forms of it date back literally thousands of years – there is always interesting news surrounding the substan... Read >

Dog Walkers – Pay Attention to the Heat

At the time of writing this, the United State is going through an enormous heat wave. States and townships all over are recording record highs for this time of year. With August still to come and holding the promise of even greater temperatures, folks a... Read >

What Should an Internal Audit Tell You?

Thanks to the good people at the IRS (and contrary to popular belief, most of them are good people just trying to do their jobs, not screw over their fellow citizens), there is a very negative connotation associated with the word “audit.” Not always real... Read >

Accounting Regulation & Investors

Unfortunately, if the past 15 years in the financial world have taught us anything at all, it is the people simply cannot be trusted when it comes to money. Greed will and usually does win out if left completely to our own devices. We saw it in the late... Read >

5 Reasons to Consider Animal Adoption

In this society, we hold our pets to be members of the family. Quite frankly, they have earned it. They hold places as service workers and best friends. As such, getting a pet is a noble endeavor. I applaud anyone who chooses to open their hearts and ... Read >

Why do you need Fraud Software?

Fraud is out of control. I was just reading an article about how the criminals who develop fake antivirus software (also known as scareware) in an attempt to get the victim to pay for software that is really part of the malware they already have been inf... Read >