A team from the University of Michigan and Cornell University sifted through more than 200 million notes sourced from 1.6 ...

Kimberly Kopecky, M.D., MSCI, a UAB surgeon specializing in high-risk abdominal procedures, created The Empathy Project to help trainees improve at having tough conversations with patients and ...

Doctors who've faced the disease themselves share candid lessons about empathy, medical bias, and the humanity of care.

Communication professor Charee Thompson, right, and graduate student Junhyung Han led a study that found that shared decision-making and the quality of the health care provider’s history-taking and ...

On a daily basis, doctors face giving unpleasant or complicated information to patients. Before they do that, they have to plan their patients' care with nurses, technicians and perhaps hospice ...

Health chatbots are not popular because patients believe artificial intelligence is smarter than their doctors. They are ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Shiv Saidha, MBBCh, MD: Hi. I'm Dr Shiv Saidha, a neurologist and multiple sclerosis (MS) specialist at Johns Hopkins University. Today joining me is Jack ...

A new study published in the January issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management points to racial bias in the treatment that patients receive toward the end of their lives, the Huffington Post ...

Growing up in a town that was a 40-plus mile drive through the mountains to the nearest Walmart, with one blinking stoplight ...

It can be tempting to comment negatively on the work of a colleague, especially if you feel that the original diagnosis or treatment is not indicated or is wrong. Although you have an obligation to ...