A Physician Caught Trying to Heal Himself
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Rarely has a more conflicted or unpromising candidate entered the field of medicine, and this mismatch gives âInternâ its offbeat appeal.
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A New Orleans doctor who rode out Katrina and is working to rebuild the cityâs health care system talks about the challenges and rewards of practicing medicine in the devastated city.
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Most doctors are afraid to take responsibility for medical errors but studies have shown that physiciansâ apologies may protect against litigation.
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The pharmaceutical enlists help to thwart a troublesome illness.
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NEW YORK - A well-wisher from Chicago hoped he would have a speedy recovery. An admirer who had just read his autobiography felt it was like having a friend in the hospital...
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I have spent most of the past three weeks inside a hospital room, watching a person I love fight for his life. It is in this frame of mind - raging helplessly against the ever-mutating cleverness of disease
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A surgeon appears in court charged with the manslaughter of a patient who had attempted suicide.
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A physician's arresting debut short-story collection sheds light on the dark corners of doctoringâand tells good tales in the bargain
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MIAMI -- A shared quest for external beauty took a macabre twist when a financially squeezed doctor who lost his medical license injected himself, his girlfriend and another couple with the paralyzing botulism toxin instead of the low-dose derivative Botox
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A suspended physician working at a clinic in Oakland Park, Fla., injected himself and three other people with botulinum toxin that he had prepared as if it were Botox, a licensed drug, rather than the far more potent, raw toxin it was, according to
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Ke'tavious Johnson has spent half his two years in a hospital, getting poked and prodded by doctors and nurses trying to keep him alive. He still hasn't gotten used to it.
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Cutting into someone's chest to perform heart surgery is not yet an accepted medical practice. But without it James Cornish is doomed, so the surgeon goes in.
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Imagine you&#39;ve been diagnosed with high cholesterol and your doctor is preparing to write a prescription to help remedy the problem.
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Desperate for a solution, a doctor tries the hardware store when hospital equipment won't do.
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Too many doctors write prescriptions while under the influence of drug companies. Aggressive prosecution of the worst cases could help mend doctor-patient trust.
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In a sharp change of direction, many medical authorities are questioning the safety of American drugs. In a challenge unthinkable even two months ago, Dr.
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In a radical experiment, doctors are snaking wires inside the lungs of asthma patients to essentially burn off some of the tissue that blocks their ability to breathe.