Despite progress on patient safety since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report, To Err Is Human, significant problems remain. Human factors and systems engineering (HF/SE) has ...

Patient surveys are redefining "quality" health care—and increasingly determining which hospitals are named the best of the ...

Steve Carell’s intriguing new role in The Patient isn’t based on a true story, but the Hulu series’ creators, Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg took several critical things from their personal lives for ...

In FX’s The Patient, Domhnall Gleeson plays a foodie named Sam Fortner who has a voracious appetite for killing — so he kidnaps his therapist Alan Strauss (Steve Carell) and chains him in his basement ...

Universal patient identifiers—unique IDs for every individual in the US—would improve the accuracy, efficiency, and safety of health care. But a ban on the use of federal funding to develop them is ...

This is the first in a series of articles that focuses on your rights as a patient—both inside the hospital and out. First up, we explore the “Patient’s Bill of Rights” (yes, that’s a thing!). If ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: The Patient has officially checked into Hulu, and you’re not going to want to miss a single second of the gripping psychological thriller. The limited series, which comes ...

State regulators faulted two hospitals in Southern California for medication errors that put patients at risk, including an elderly patient who suffered a brain bleed after receiving repeated doses of ...

R.P. Sowers invited the cream of Richmond’s medical community to that first open house. It was 1981, the night before the doors would open at his urgent-care clinic on the outskirts of town, just ...