Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Clear communication is an essential component of patient-centered care delivery in the cancer setting. Previous ...

Credit: Getty Images. There are 4 steps to avoid verbal conflicts that escalate to violence among unhoused patients: apologize, approve, applaud, and appease. Every Sunday, Reverend Thomas Hill, ...

Today's doctor visits look and feel a lot different than they did even just a couple decades ago. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Rushed physicians and medical ...

Increased workload, clerical demands, high-patient volumes and staffing issues can limit doctors’ and attending physicians’ availability to fully engage and prioritize connectivity with patients.

Ask anybody who’s interacted with the U.S. healthcare system about their relationship with healthcare, and they’ll probably describe themself as a recipient of care. Why is it that patients don’t feel ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . I want to reflect on a recent patient I admitted: a woman in her 40s who presented with an intractable headache.

IDC Research's research director for value-based healthcare IT transformation strategies, Jennifer Eaton, had this to say in recent research: "To meet consumer needs and demands, healthcare is using ...

A friend recently returned from a doctor’s office visit upset the doctor didn’t explain much of anything. He hardly entered the examination room, asked a few superficial questions while he typed on ...

Nearly one-fifth of adult patient encounters in non-psychiatric settings were considered difficult by physicians, a meta-analysis found. The prevalence of difficult encounters was 17% across 10 ...

The Saint Louis University School of Medicine Clinical Skills Center (C.S.C.) is proud to collaborate and recruit members of the local community to serve as standardized patients (S.P.'s) in medical ...