Call the Doctor: As Hollywood Gigs Dry Up, Actors Are Playing Fake Patients in Real Hospitals

As Hollywood gigs dry up, some actors have found a steady side hustle playing 'standardized patients' in hospitals to train ...

Do doctors treat poorer patients differently? Our study in Tunisia found they do, in subtle ways

People with lower income and less education get sick more often, have worse access to care, and don't live as long. This is ...

Cancer patients want to participate in difficult decisions

"Patients do not want to be shielded from difficult treatment decisions," says Associate Professor Jannicke Rabben at ...

Doctors, Dentists, And Medical Professionals: What Do You Wish Patients Would Remember About Hygiene?

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Report Confirms Columbia Ignored Decades of Doctor’s Sexual Abuse

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Health P.E.I. 'made it harder for me to do the work that I love,' says departing family doctor

A longtime family doctor in Summerside says she is leaving the province, and it all comes down to how Health P.E.I. is ...

New York Attorney General is Investigating Columbia for Allowing Predatory Doctor to See Patients Despite Warnings

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Scientific American

The AI scribe that lets doctors stop typing and start listening

Your doctor sits across from you, fully present, listening—not typing or glancing at a screen. Yet every important detail you share makes it into your medical record. This is the vision of Christopher ...
MedPage Today on MSNOpinion

I'm an Emergency Doctor Who Mops Floors and Starts IVs During Strikes

Are healthcare worker strikes worth it?

'We love what we do': 9 local patients reunite with doctors who helped save their lives

For nine Mercy Health heart patients, a night of reunions in the West End brought them face-to-face with the doctors they ...
Opinion

Porter: US Health Care System Didn’t Know What To Do With My Early Cancer

RCP contributor Richard Porter joined the RealClearPolitics podcast on Tuesday to discuss his experience with an early-detected cancer in a post-Obamacare healthcare system, which he wrote about in ...
Healio

In 25 years as an emergency doctor, I saw patients say ‘thank you’ in these 6 ways

An elderly patient came to the ED after slipping on the ice. I knew her ankle was broken since the lower extremity was swollen and deformed. Nonetheless, she smiled, her energy was appreciative, and ...