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 ...

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 ...

She never saw herself as a leader, and she was quiet and shy, yet she became a chief medical officer. Vidhya Prakash is an internal medicine physician and chief medical officer at SIU Medicine. This ...

If every physician in your organization woke up tomorrow with complete financial freedom, how many would still choose to stay? It is a simple question, but the answer could reveal more about your ...

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, ...

Just after one in the morning on August 6, 1997, Korean Air Flight 801 was descending toward Guam in rain. The captain had been scheduled for a longer trip to Dubai, but he was not rested for it. The ...

Almost 50 years into practice, a cardiologist says American health care is getting worse by the day. Peter R. Kowey specializes in heart rhythm disorders and ran a cardiology division for 25 years.

Everyone, both men and women, deserves to experience an orgasm or the climax of sexual arousal. There are several disparities between men and women, including longevity between men and women, gender ...

A physician was fired by the doctors she had trained, in part because she preferred to see her own patients herself. Moral injury, she argues, does not require 100-hour weeks. Sarah A. Vlach is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...