Emergency physician Ferdinando Mirarchi and attorney Thaddeus Mason Pope explain why 80 percent of physicians read an advance directive as a DNR order.

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 ...

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 ...

In pediatric oncology, nutrition is often reduced to a simple question: Is the child eating enough? In practice, it is rarely that straightforward. During intensive cancer treatment, appetite, ...

Payer contracting has reached an inflection point. Although these contracts are the lifeblood of a health system, the managed care function is often seen as a routine set of transactional and ...

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 ...

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 ...

New fear unlocked: waking up to a viral TikTok of "me," gushing about a probiotic nasal spray that cures chronic sinus infections. As a board-certified ear, nose, and throat surgeon, I've been ...

You can learn more from watching a patient walk down the hallway than from the rest of the exam. Most exams happen sitting or lying down. Narinder Singh Parhar is an internal medicine physician and ...

In a recent essay on Epic and Oracle, Eric Doherty argued that health care leaders should not pick a side. They should demand AI that is trustworthy, portable, and patient-centered. I agree. But that ...

Few of us would tell a patient with moderate-to-severe depression to wait it out alone. Many of us do exactly that for ourselves. Physicians develop depression at rates comparable to or higher than ...

Aleksandra Filipovic is a practicing medical oncologist and chief medical officer at Gallop Oncology. She has more than 20 years of experience in clinical oncology. She previously held roles at ...