It’s 3 a.m. There’s a septic patient in room 6 and someone intoxicated yelling in the hallway. A 78-year-old on eleven medications is going home, and her daughter needs discharge instructions she can ...

When I learned that Sir Patrick Stewart had passed away following a “brief and poignant journey” with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia, I didn’t think of Captain Picard. Instead, I thought ...

Medical schools are extraordinarily good at teaching future physicians what they need to know. The harder question is whether they prepare them for the moment when knowledge no longer provides a ...

A patient in a German schizophrenia trial got worse for weeks. The smartphone app built to catch it raised no alert during that stretch, because the worsening stayed just below its threshold. After ...

Massachusetts lawmakers are now working to reconcile House and Senate versions of legislation that would require health care employers to develop and implement workplace violence prevention programs.

Many physicians are told their pay follows a standard plan that cannot change for one person. Jon Appino, a physician contract and compensation consultant at Contract Diagnostics, says administrators ...

An older patient who tries to climb out of bed after surgery usually draws attention. Someone lying quietly, answering slowly, or turning away from conversation may draw much less. The second patient ...

On a Hulu comedy, a man hides his shellfish allergy from a coworker. When the reaction starts, he takes Benadryl. Lianne Mandelbaum is a food allergy advocate, president of the No Nut Traveler, and ...

A patient receives a hospital bill and does what every responsible article tells them to do. They check it. They see room charges, imaging charges, pharmacy charges, supplies, insurance adjustments, ...

I am a practicing hematologist-oncologist in the U.S., standing here against all odds I could never have imagined overcoming. It was not a linear journey; I arrived here carrying the unfinished lives ...

Every week I meet a patient who has already done everything “right.” They’ve had the annual physical, the lipid panel, and the metabolic panel. They’re still sick: tired, foggy, inflamed, and ...

For most of the past two decades, community practice has managed treatment-resistant depression (TRD) the way STAR*D described: one medication after another, with remission rates falling below 15 ...