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The Internal Revenue Service is encouraging tax preparers to take a new competency exam as soon as possible. So far, more than 4,800 people have become Registered Tax Return Preparers, according to ...

Chicago — Should old doctors be forced to retire? That question is the focus of a new report by an American Medical Association council that says doctors themselves should help decide when one of ...

CHICAGO — With one out of four U.S. doctors older than 65, the American Medical Association adopted a plan Monday to help decide when it’s time for aging senior physicians to hang up the stethoscope.

After 6 years of training at medical school, doctors must still pass a professional competence assessment before they are ...