One in six patients are deemed to be dissatisfied and demanding. But to prevent difficult medical problems from being redefined as difficult patients, doctors need help ...

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?

"Physicians are often accused of providing too much care to elderly patients at the end of life, but there's evidence that these patients also get far too little care before reaching that point," a ...

As a health policy professional who has spent nearly two decades working in health care quality measurement—much of it at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and private payers—I (Ma) ...

Liz Helms still remembers the way her doctor looked at her 30 years ago, when she described the severe pain she was ...

Dr. Alok Patel hopes to get patients to fess up on bad behavior. — -- April Fool’s is here and everyone has a get-out-of-free card for the most inventive lie. Aside from the holiday of hoax, most ...

Dr. Marisha Burden reports funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety, University of Colorado Innovations digiSPARK award, ...

People with lower income and less education get sick more often, have worse access to care, and don't live as long. This is ...

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