Emergency physician Ferdinando Mirarchi and attorney Thaddeus Mason Pope explain why 80 percent of physicians read an advance directive as a DNR order.

A first code as a medical student ends in a trauma bay with a young man's death. See the words a resident offered in the stairwell that still guide every code.

You can learn more from watching a patient walk down the hallway than from the rest of the exam. Most exams happen sitting or lying down. Narinder Singh Parhar is an internal medicine physician and ...

Dr. Fady Hannah-Shmouni’s recent KevinMD essay, “Continuing medical education needs a tutor, not a lecture,” makes a case I share without reservation. Slide decks and ten-question quizzes survive ...

John Sullivan is a physician, neuroscientist, and associate professor who serves as chair of basic sciences and research for Touro University's physician assistant programs. With a background in ...