The most important moment of a medical appointment usually happens at the very end, with a hand on the doorknob. Every physician knows the moment. The visit is over. The official reason for it (the ...

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.

Every nurse who has ever called you at two in the morning remembers how you answered. You remember almost none of them. That asymmetry runs the hospital at night. The caller carries every response ...

Some people process a terrible event over a week or two and move on. Others replay it for years, and their bodies never settle back down. Faust Ruggiero is a clinical psychologist who has treated post ...

Health care has a problem that we rarely talk about honestly enough. It is not simply a shortage of doctors. It is not simply rising costs, longer waiting lists, an aging population, or the growing ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 16 million Americans are estimated to have a diagnosis of dry eye disease. And the number of symptomatic patients living without a diagnosis is thought to be almost double. As a health care ...

Your patients can see everything you post. Tali Lando was posting funny videos from her office while two of her young patients lay in the hospital struggling to recover, and it left her torn. She is a ...

Someone you love says they are fine. They still eat, they still go to work, and no one asks a second time. Nneka Oluoha is an internal medicine physician and the author of a novel about a Nigerian ...