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

The office chairs most of us sit in all day have little science behind them, and the popular fixes may not be much better. Turner Osler is a trauma surgeon and epidemiologist. This episode is based on ...

Many doctors who run their own practices spend hours on work someone else could do. One practice owner who charges $300 an hour was his own receptionist, verifying insurance all night and stepping ...

In pediatric oncology, nutrition is often reduced to a simple question: Is the child eating enough? In practice, it is rarely that straightforward. During intensive cancer treatment, appetite, ...

Psychiatrist Ravi Singareddy did something rare in his recent KevinMD piece on accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): He slowed the hype down. SAINT's open-label pilot reported remission ...

The future of health care offers flexibility in if, how, and when providers adopt AI documentation, but the true priority is finding a middle ground where practicing medicine still feels natural.

The headlines have a rhythm to them now. Artificial intelligence is “going rogue” (lying, cheating, hacking, scheming to preserve itself), and the next model may be powerful enough, in Bill Gates’s ...

An emergency physician bought a new iPad and found 53 phone numbers he had forgotten were there. Each one was a family he put on a video call to say goodbye before he intubated their loved one. Howie ...

One medical expert for the plaintiff attorney is most credited for the outcome in a widely publicized obstetric malpractice case against an academic medical center. That outcome is, at most, dubious, ...

Women physicians are walking away from practice in their forties, and not because they stopped loving the work. Dawn Sears is a gastroenterologist of 25 years and the founder of GutGirlMD Consulting, ...

A routine EKG at my annual physical was supposed to be uneventful. Instead, it ended my marathon career. This past winter, I was diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), ...

The 1960s marked the end of “the good old days” of America’s health care system. In those days, there were no HMOs, PPOs, medical exchanges and the like; there were just doctors, hospitals, and health ...