Patients who ask for specialist referrals, laboratory tests or certain medications and don't get them tend to be less satisfied with their doctors than those whose requests are fulfilled, new research ...

Patients with cancer enrolled in a novel digital support registry requested an average of $5921 per patient in financial assistance, with housing needs comprising 59% of the total $1.32 million ...

A new study debunks the common assumption that high medical costs are a result of patients demanding more tests and treatments. Researchers analyzed more than 5000 patient-clinician visits and found ...

When doctors deny special requests from patients they often see their satisfaction levels drop, according to a new study. Patients who ask for referrals to specialists, laboratory tests or certain ...

Many primary care physicians in the United States reported providing unnecessary medical care in response to patient requests; several factors predicted this behavior. Objectives: Evaluating ...

Before Wednesday’s hopeful news about the experimental antiviral remdesivir broke, doctors treating patients hospitalized for Covid-19 were already hearing from a few families desperate to get the ...

Patient-directed requests, however, are not required to have an expiration date, enabling a third party who is provided with a patient-directed request to copy it and use it indefinitely, thereby ...

“Talk to your doctor,” many TV commercials for prescription drugs advise. And patients do. Doctors are frequently faced with patients asking about or requesting a medication they have seen advertised ...

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — A nurse is suing a Michigan hospital for allegedly honoring a patient’s request to not be cared for by a black woman. Teoka Williams filed a federal lawsuit Monday against ...