Nephrologist Stella Awua-Larbi on the person behind the "difficult patient" label, and the question that can change both burnout and care.

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.

A fellow sits across from my desk, talking about becoming faculty in a few months. She's nervous about her first attending rotation on the consult service and wonders whether she should do an extra ...

I trained as a physician and spent the first part of my career moving between clinical practice and research, much of it in hematology. The cases that stayed with me were rarely the ones where ...

Cara Lunsford is a nurse and vice president of health care policy and clinical solutions at Relias. She has eighteen years of nursing experience, including over a decade in pediatric oncology, and has ...

Many doctors who run their own practices spend hours on work someone else could do. One practice owner who charges $300 an hour was his own receptionist, verifying insurance all night and stepping ...

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 ...

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 ...

The words you put in a patient’s chart can be used to deny their disability claim. A note that says “stable” or “improved” can mean one thing to you and another to the insurer. Jennifer Hess, an ERISA ...

Someone tells you their memory is slipping. What you say next can decide whether treatment is still an option for them. Emer MacSweeney is a neuroradiologist and the cofounder and CEO of Re:Cognition ...

I receive emails from a senior citizen's organization urging me to sign a petition to protect Medicare Advantage (MA) nonmedical benefits. After reading and deleting the first one, I ignored ...