“Your success in medicine has a lot to do with how much people like being around you and less with how smart you are and how ...

Patients whose medical beliefs and choices feel incomprehensible, even infuriating, to us clinicians are some of the hardest to care for. But this situation felt especially heightened. If I could not ...

Health systems say AI note-taking tools could save doctors precious hours each day. But some research shows doctors have ...

As a health policy professional who has spent nearly two decades working in health care quality measurement—much of it at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and private payers—I (Ma) ...

"Physicians are often accused of providing too much care to elderly patients at the end of life, but there's evidence that these patients also get far too little care before reaching that point," a ...

One of the many indignities of being a patient is that you won’t always be taken seriously. Perhaps the most frustrating—and startlingly common—experience is being told your medical symptoms, which ...

Dr. Alok Patel hopes to get patients to fess up on bad behavior. — -- April Fool’s is here and everyone has a get-out-of-free card for the most inventive lie. Aside from the holiday of hoax, most ...

Contracts with so-called restrictive covenants are now common in medicine. This is a Kaiser Health News story. When Don Cue developed a bladder infection last fall, he called his longtime urologist’s ...

Medical experts stress that obtaining patient consent is a legal and ethical duty. Patients have the right to refuse care, ...

The agreement in principle reached between Quebec’s family doctors and the Legault government scraps penalties for doctors ...