A first code as a medical student ends in a trauma bay with a young man's death. See the words a resident offered in the stairwell that still guide every code.

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 ...

Your patients can see everything you post. Tali Lando was posting funny videos from her office while two of her young patients lay in the hospital struggling to recover, and it left her torn. She is a ...

An excerpt from Beyond the White Coat: A Novel. Before I ever ran toward a code, I ran away from one. I was a fourth-year medical student at U.C. San Diego shadowing in the trauma bay when a man ...

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 ...

At a recent health care conference, a panel of leaders gathered to talk about financial resilience. The framing was intentionally designed. The question wasn't "How do we save money?" It was "how to ...

John Sullivan is a physician, neuroscientist, and associate professor who serves as chair of basic sciences and research for Touro University's physician assistant programs. With a background in ...

More than 16 million Americans are estimated to have a diagnosis of dry eye disease. And the number of symptomatic patients living without a diagnosis is thought to be almost double. As a health care ...

It was in late spring of 1964, just a day after graduating from high school, that a diminutive farm girl packed her belongings and bade farewell to the life she had known in the Smoky Mountains of ...

Working in the ICU is one of the toughest experiences for a new budding doctor. It’s rare to find a patient who can talk. Most lie unconscious, connected to ventilators and machines that hum and beep ...

Only 4 in 10 caregivers say a doctor asked how the patient prefers to communicate. The patients who cannot answer often have the most to report. Chris Ross is a speech-language pathologist and school ...

When I was a child, my mother left a poem that had touched her under the glass screen of my study table. It was the poem of the wise old owl, and at the bottom, the author was stated as… When I was a ...