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

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 ...

DUBLIN — Researchers in Spain have reported a complex picture of primary care patient safety across the country, with survey results highlighting a critical need for improved communication systems ...

Each monthly installment examines an individual aspect of these crucial conversations, including building trust, responding ...

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 ...

Gone are the days when a doctor's word was taken as gospel. The relationship between doctors and patients has undergone a dramatic shift, with many doctors now finding themselves in the position of ...

Mumbai, Jan 10: More than 30 staff members, including doctors, nurses and ward boys of M.T. Agarwal Hospital in Mulund, ...

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 ...

Physicians are already deep into artificial intelligence adoption—67% of doctors use AI tools daily in their practice and ...

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 ...