THE young doctors’ strike, scarred with the inhuman act of locking out emergency wings of hospitals, is over at long last. Denial of basic healthcare to suffering millions apart, the loss of 500 ...

But the actual experience for patients and doctors of navigating offices, clinics, hospitals—and each other’s company—rarely enters the discussion.

What happens when doctors are unhappy? They have unhappy patients. A new memoir, 'Doctored,' presents one cardiologist's take on the challenges facing American medicine and the real impact on ...

When Parkinson's disease affects patients' expressions, it can be hard for doctors to assess them. Cultural and and gender stereotypes can further complicate the judgment.

Medical Mysteries She was headed to a locked psych ward. Then an ER doctor made a startling discovery. A physician’s gut instinct about a young woman led to a diagnosis that had been overlooked ...

A new documentary tells the story of America's first inpatient unit dedicated to the care of people with AIDS. Nurse Cliff Morrison helped create 5B in 1983, and worked on it with Dr. Paul Volberding.

Why aren’t hospitals better at communicating? The founders of Careful say the problem is not the old cliché about doctors being good at treating patients, but hopeless at talking to them ...

Ward rounds are critical to developing rapport and building trust with patients while doctors discharge their duty of care.

A ward boy in Rajasthan's Jodhpur conducted a heart test on a patient after watching a YouTube video, as no doctor and medical staff were present due to the Diwali holiday.

The color cure is a treatment new to alienists, but one that promises to become very successful, for, so far, a great many of the patients taken to the color ward have been cured. Dr.

Doctors have told how patients are being managed in chairs “day and night” and physiotherapy gyms are being turned into wards as hospitals fill up.