As he says goodbye to ‘Sex Education’ and makes his Hollywood debut in ‘Barbie’, Ncuti Gatwa is primed to reinvent the ‘Doctor Who‘ role.
Doctors are humans and should feel human when they get sick.
There was a time when doctors were doctors, physicians, and surgeons. There was a time when we were not referred to as contractors, or providers.
People who suffer from multiple chronic illnesses often find they must take charge of managing health-care providers, especially when instructions and prescriptions conflict.
When patients have to go to the hospital, they're likely to choose a facility that employs their doctor, a new study suggests. The study, which finds that patients of independent doctors often choose low-cost and high-quality hospitals, hints that not all organizations are successfully integrating care.
I don't know why he swallowed the knives. Perhaps he won't die.
Among physicians, the opioid and overdose epidemics have transformed the treatment of pain into a moral and clinical cage fight.
A new study finds hospital patients treated by women doctors did better when it came to two important health outcomes
A study suggests that coordinated care, led by a family doctor who is judicious about referring patients to specialists, leads to cost savings.
Doctors are facing new requirements to keep up-to-date in their knowledge and care for patients in order to stay certified by medical boards.
For the first time, doctors have a financial incentive to keep patients out of the hospital. That's leading to some interesting changes.
Online records, video visits and smartphone medicine transform the traditional office appointment.
Learn what doctors and scientists are saying about hiking and ecotherapy, and why they're beneficial for our mental health.
A new study found that giving back results in 38 percent fewer hospital stays.
A prognosis, predicting the likely course of an illness, often makes physicians uneasy, fearful that delivering bad news will dash patients’ hopes.
It's quick and easy to get a diagnosis on the computer, but how do the results compare to a real doctor?
Transgender patients, meanwhile, have serious complaints with the care they receive.
Mannequins that can sweat, groan and bleed are replacing lectures and videos as the new medical teaching tool.