There is a palpable tension eating away at the doctor-patient relationship. Doctors are over-capacity. Patients are under-informed and lack the confidence needed to properly self-advocate for their ...

From Dr Greene’s hubris to House’s Vicodin addiction to the traumatized doctors in The Pitt, could modern depictions of flawed physicians be doing more harm than good?

On demand, not on hold — new research revealed the top hurdles that send patients running to a new doctor. According to a survey of 2,000 Americans who’ve been to the doctor within the last year, ...

Don’t hold the door to the psych ward open for anyone. This is what they told us before we visited for the first time. It’s a matter of policy: some of the patients locked inside have tried to hurt ...

A Nebraska pediatric surgeon found a 5-year-old alone before open-heart surgery. What happened next led to six siblings ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Thirteen days. That's the countdown for two people in the Triangle headed to Iceland for a unique adventure. The pair are an unlikely duo - doctor and patient - with a shared ...

It’s the season of goblins, scary movies — and ghosts. It’s an appropriate time, I think, to discuss a situation I’m seeing more and more: medical ghosting. The term “ghosting,” which came in to our ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – If you’ve got a doctor’s appointment scheduled soon, you may be asked if you’ll allow the doctor to use “digital scribing” to keep notes. The technology listens in the background to ...