As the father of three active boys, including two teenagers approaching driving age, I know the day I hand over the car keys isn't far off. Right now, our days are filled with practices, wrestling ...

The most important moment of a medical appointment usually happens at the very end, with a hand on the doorknob. Every physician knows the moment. The visit is over. The official reason for it (the ...

I trained as a physician and spent the first part of my career moving between clinical practice and research, much of it in hematology. The cases that stayed with me were rarely the ones where ...

Emergency physician Ferdinando Mirarchi and attorney Thaddeus Mason Pope explain why 80 percent of physicians read an advance directive as a DNR order.

Teenage anxiety is real, but if we treat every feeling as a medical issue, we might overlook what is truly important. When a teen says, "I'm anxious," we shouldn't have to choose between saying, "You ...

A patient arrives already sure of what is wrong with them. The words they use came from somewhere else. Alan P. Feren is a retired surgeon, health care consultant, and patient advocate. This episode ...

Every nurse who has ever called you at two in the morning remembers how you answered. You remember almost none of them. That asymmetry runs the hospital at night. The caller carries every response ...

Some people process a terrible event over a week or two and move on. Others replay it for years, and their bodies never settle back down. Faust Ruggiero is a clinical psychologist who has treated post ...

Dr. Fady Hannah-Shmouni’s recent KevinMD essay, “Continuing medical education needs a tutor, not a lecture,” makes a case I share without reservation. Slide decks and ten-question quizzes survive ...

You can learn more from watching a patient walk down the hallway than from the rest of the exam. Most exams happen sitting or lying down. Narinder Singh Parhar is an internal medicine physician and ...

Nephrologist Stella Awua-Larbi on the person behind the "difficult patient" label, and the question that can change both burnout and care.