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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I see patients these days, it is usually in a hospital. Most are not particularly happy to be there. They are sick, uncomfortable, frightened, or simply exhausted by whatever brought them through ...

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 ...