On the Same Wavelength With the Doctor
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Feel like going to the doctor is a waste of time? With a little preparation, your next doctorâs visit can be a lot more productive.
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And can people have the same dream at the same time? Also in this week's column:â¦
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Patients around the country will be able to book a GP appointment through their TV set.
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Su visite specialistiche e diagnostica
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Most patients think their doctors treat them respectfully, listen to them patiently and care about their emotional well-being. That's the finding of a recent poll of 39,000 patients and 335 primary care doctors. Still, the survey found plenty of complaints on both ends of the stethoscope.
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Dr. Jerry Avorn brings convincing data and sharp analysis to ''Powerful Medicines,&quot; his timely, challenging appraisal of health policy.
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A patient of one of my psychiatric residents recently caught him off guard with a challenging question: âHave you ever been in psychotherapy yourself?â
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NEW YORK  - Physicians frequently disclose information about themselves to patients, new research shows, and contrary to what some researchers believe, this does not enhance the doctor-patient relationship and may actually be disruptive.
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Here's how to avoid biases in investing -- and in the doctor's office.
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Your next doctor could be keeping an eye on you from afar &#151; via a camera and a bank of computer screens. An expanding number of hospitals are adopting technology that allows critical care doctors and nurses to monitor dozens of patients at different hospitals simultaneously, much as an air traffic controller keeps track of several planes.
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Genetic tests may soon help doctors find the best treatment for each individual.
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It is hard to think of a case in which a murderer should become a medical doctor. Murder and medical practice are simply incompatible.
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Depending on the circumstances, making medical history can be good or bad. For Jeanna Giese, her family and her doctors, it was most assuredly something positive.
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Howard Dean, a politician who has made much over the years of his experience as a doctor, has written a new book offering a blunt diagnosis of what ails the Democratic Party and the news media, as well as a prescription for a cure.
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When Dr. Eric Matteson arrived at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., on Thursday morning, there was already a pile of messages for him and the phones were ringing off the hook.
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Some family doctors have five times the number of patients than others, research shows.
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The stories seem strange but riveting. A heart attack victim recalls floating in the air, watching paramedics revive him. A surgical patient remembers hovering, watching the doctors operate. Such widely reported out-of-body experiences have long been the territory of theology, philosophy and scary movies. Now scientists have turned their attention to the topic.