There is a folder on my computer that I avoid as much as possible. It is called Health and it holds the clinical letters and other documents from all the consultants and other health-care ...

"Physicians are often accused of providing too much care to elderly patients at the end of life, but there's evidence that these patients also get far too little care before reaching that point," a ...

People trust doctors; after all, they've gone through years of education and training to take care of us when we're possibly having the worst days of our lives. Some even want to be as little of a ...

Advocates of the technology say it radically reduces the amount of burnout clinicians face and allows them to focus on the truly human parts of medicine.

This week, a bevy of telehealth stakeholders sent incoming HHS secretary Sylvia Burwell a letter as part of ongoing efforts to improve the legal and political climate for telehealth. But virtual visit ...

It can be tempting to comment negatively on the work of a colleague, especially if you feel that the original diagnosis or treatment is not indicated or is wrong. Although you have an obligation to ...

Yurkiewicz is a clinical associate professor of medicine and an oncologist at Stanford University and the author of “Fragmented: A Doctor’s Quest to Piece Together American Health Care.” My patient ...