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WHEN doctors deliver life-altering news to patients, such as a timeline within which they might die, psychiatrist Dr Saphire Longmore says it is critical that the information relayed is accurate ...

Not a month goes by without one or both of us receiving emails from desperate people pleading for help finding a physician willing to take new pain patients − a task that has become next to ...

The routine is familiar for most people: When checking in for an appointment with a doctor or other health care provider, patients typically complete and sign a pile of paperwork, including a form ...

When I meet a patient with a complicated medical history, I often start by asking when they were last perfectly well. Darcie couldn’t remember ever being truly well. Darcie is 20 years old.

The United States healthcare system is failing. We rank last among developed countries in healthcare performance, and Americans face lower life expectancy and growing chronic disease rates despite ...

Laura Delano walked away from the treatments that defined her teens and 20s. Now, she’s hoping to create a road map for others to follow. Between the ages of 13 and 27, Laura Delano was ...

Patients can access their own health records — including test results — as soon as they're available. While it might sound beneficial, in some cases, people are receiving life-changing ...

But nursing unions argue that this poorly understood technology is overriding nurses' expertise and degrading the quality of care patients receive. "Hospitals have been waiting for the moment when ...

Years before some 2,500 patients of a Toronto gynecologist were warned about a possible infection risk linked to improperly cleaned tools, Rachael Millanta filed a complaint about her experience ...

One of Sidhwa's first patients was a 3-year-old girl with multiple shrapnel wounds on her head who couldn't breathe properly, he said. "So I had to just told her dad it was nothing we could do ...

She often tells the story of her 13-year-old patient to families that are hesitant to vaccinate their children. “I tried to use stories of patients that I’ve taken care of,” she said ...