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.

Seventeen years ago, I opened a family medicine practice with a simple goal: take care of my community. I am board-certified in family medicine and obesity medicine, and I loved the work. What I did ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A patient arrives already sure of what is wrong with them. The words they use came from somewhere else. Alan P. Feren is a retired surgeon, health care consultant, and patient advocate. This episode ...

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 ...

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 ...

Surgical training still runs on the model it did decades ago. Everything around it has changed. Danny Goel walks you through what that mismatch costs. He is an orthopedic surgeon, and this episode is ...

Shortly after graduating from my emergency medicine training, I reread The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I didn’t expect a dystopian novel to follow me into the emergency department, but it did.