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

Doctors and nurses are trained to take excellent care of other people’s health, and often don’t look after their own. Close to half the health care workforce has burnout, and it shows in rounded ...

An excerpt from Jimmy’s Story: Forging a New Path for American Healthcare. Looking back, I had submitted my fictional tale, “Standing Vigil 2020,” to the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), a ...

Doctors are sued far less often than they were 25 years ago, but the average malpractice payout has never been higher. Robert E. White, Jr., president of The Doctors Company, has spent 58 years in ...

The office chairs most of us sit in all day have little science behind them, and the popular fixes may not be much better. Turner Osler is a trauma surgeon and epidemiologist. This episode is based on ...

Being offered partnership in a medical practice is usually good news, but not always. One physician paid $60,000 to buy in, then signed a contract making her cover all of a $325,000 bonus her two ...

There were three of us who probably could have been valedictorian. I was one of them. At English High School in Boston, I earned straight A’s from tenth grade onward. Yet my academic record contained ...

I recently retired from practicing medicine after forty-three years, specifically in ophthalmology. Everyone I know seemed to bombard me with the same question: What's it like being retired? I've been ...

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, ...

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 ...

There I was lying on my bathroom floor: semi-conscious, teeth-chattering; relieved my fever-sweat was plastering my back to the cold tile. I was weak, trying my best to will my body to the warmth of ...

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 ...