Many doctors claim that the most fulfilling part of their job is their relationships with patients, but because so many people rely on the Internet for health information these days, those connections ...

Zocdoc reports that GLP-1 prescriptions enhance the doctor-patient relationship, prompting more follow-up care and holistic ...

View all available purchase options and get full access to this article. Emanuel E.J., Emanuel L.L., “Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship,” Journal of the American Medical Association ...

A friend recently returned from a doctor’s office visit upset the doctor didn’t explain much of anything. He hardly entered the examination room, asked a few superficial questions while he typed on ...

Physicians have worked to earn the trust of their patients for nearly 2,400 years, dating back to the days of Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine. Lucky for Hippocrates that his patients ...

From walk-in clinics to telemedicine, patients today have many options when they need medical care. Often, convenience trumps loyalty. A 2018 study by Virginia Commonwealth University Health System ...

2025 was the year of the patient. By last year, patients were able to access a vast amount of information that unlocked multiple opportunities for them to take charge of their own care, perhaps far ...

Today's doctor visits look and feel a lot different than they did even just a couple decades ago. To help reverse these trends, a new report from Northwestern University and the University of Alabama ...

Before managed healthcare transformed American medicine in the 1990s, family physicians usually had enough time to familiarize themselves with your medical history, your work situation, the nuances of ...

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 ...

Media contacts: American Academy of Family Physicians: Julie Hirschhorn | jhirschhorn@aafp.org American Academy of Pediatrics: Devin Mazziotti | dmazziotti@aap.org American College of Obstetricians ...

Health systems typically have more communications infrastructure than independent practices, yet the trust evidence patients ...