There is a palpable tension eating away at the doctor-patient relationship. Doctors are over-capacity. Patients are under-informed and lack the confidence needed to properly self-advocate for their ...

Patients with hidradenitis suppurativa tend to rate their actual patient-doctor relationship based on their satisfaction with life and state of mental health. The satisfaction score assigned was ...

During my introduction to flying status as a flight surgeon, at headquarters, Strategic Air Command (SAC), US Air Force, I was introduced to the “wingman” principle. I was to be the squadron and ...

From walk-in clinics to telemedicine, patients today have many options when they need medical care. Often, convenience trumps loyalty. A 2018 study by Virginia Commonwealth University Health System ...

If you’ve ever left a doctor’s visit feeling unheard, here's why it happens—and why it’s not because your doctor doesn’t care.

Board-certified internal medicine physician Dr. Rishi Seth joined Gayle Guyardo, host of the globally syndicated health and ...

When you feel a pinch in your shoulder or wake up with a sore throat, your options might be waiting for days to see your primary care doctor, visiting an urgent care clinic with an unfamiliar provider ...

You told a reader to call doctors by their last name until invited otherwise. Your writer had called the doctor by the first name on the first visit. Had she never been to a doctor before? No one ...