A Young Doctor's Hardest Lesson: Keep Your Mouth Shut
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The biggest shock along the road to becoming a doctor is the revelation that you can ask and the patient will tell anything.
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Many doctors refuse to admit that simple chance is a factor in how well some of their patients do.
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Young children are the most likely victims of surgery-related medication mistakes, a new study has found, and poor communication is the most likely culprit.
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A doctor knew that operating would bring about a cure of a patientÂs condition, but he was convinced of both her insanity and her utterly lucid desire to avoid surgery.
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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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Money talks. New graduates shouldn't be afraid of talking back.
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An Atlanta lawyer with a potentially deadly contagious disease talks about a journey that has triggered fear and outrage.
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Dr. Frank Fisher's ordeal lingers as a cautionary tale of what can happen to doctors who treat pain aggressively.
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Here's how to avoid biases in investing -- and in the doctor's office.
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It&#39;s a lesson children learn before their ABCs - say you&#39;re sorry when you hurt someone. Now it&#39;s being taught in the grown-up world of medicine as a surprisingly powerful way to
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Practice does not necessarily make perfect. Not many things make perfect, to tell the truth.
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College sophomore Charis Bridgman tends to keep quiet in class if she thinks her professor might disagree with her Christian-influenced ideas. The 19-year-old says schools such as her Otterbein College in suburban Columbus should be a place for open discussion, but she feels some professors make students afraid to speak up.
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There once was a boy who for no apparent reason went around knifing his classmates. This boy's parents took him to nearly every mental health professional with no success... until one day a famous hypnotist came to town. There was a long line to speak to him, and as they waited medical doctors hovered around them trying to convince them it was all quackery.  But the parents, figuring they had nothing to lose, continued standing in line with their disturbed son.  At long last they told the doctor about their son's twisted history, and after a long pause the doctor looked the boy square in the eye and said,  "My, won't you be surprised when you never do anything like this again."
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Do not always expect straight talk from your doctor about treatments he or she disapproves of -- 14 percent of physicians believe it is acceptable to withhold information about controversial topics, according to a study published on Wednesday.
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A few years ago, in my early twenties, I was set to graduate from university. At the time, I lived with my parents and had an easy job as the network administrator of a local fishing company. A few months before convocation, my parents divorced, my boss fired me (incidentally, for this article), and I had stopped school because I thought my life of free room and board was over. I spammed my address book crying for work. An acquaintance called me to do some contract work for a startup board game company. What followed was a lesson in something that I would have never learned in university: reality.
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When painful medicine is involved, closeness to a patient can make for fuzzy views.
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The hardest thing I've had to come to terms with in the 17 years since my hearing started to fail is not silence but intrusive noises: They ring in my ears, obscure the sounds I want to listen to and startle me when they amplify themselves without warning. There I am, working quietly at my desk, ...