The Reader&#39;s View Doctors without regrets
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Collin Levey&#39;s assertion that generic AIDS medicines are unsafe and ineffective (&quot;Cheap drugs help no one if they&#39;re not effective,&quot; Times guest column, Nov. 12) is deliberately misleading.
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Doctors say patients timid about having surgeries for fear of pain shouldn't put it off: A new focus on patient comfort and advances in pain management are making many procedures nearly pain-free.
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MORE than 100 of Harold Shipman&#39;s murders could have been prevented if two hospital doctors had reported glaring concerns about the serial killer GP.
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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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It&#39;s a lesson that children learn even before their ABCs - say you&#39;re sorry when you have hurt someone. But now it&#39;s being taught in the grown-up world of medicine as a surprisingly effective way to soothe patients and head off malpractice lawsuits.
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TWO GPs accused of failing to spot &quot;extraordinary coincidences&quot; surrounding the deaths of Harold Shipman&#39;s patients have spoken of their relief after being cleared of serious professional conduct.
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I confess. I&#39;m one of those people scorned by political wonks and talk-radio types alike. In a world where everyone is so certain of their position, so sure that their candidate can cure what ails us, I&#39;m the one on the fence.
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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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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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Fifty years ago, Ronald Herrick wasn&#39;t thinking about making medical history that would one day lead to saving countless lives.
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The patient was sicker than we thought. He would not reveal that in public, of course, because he was a proud man, a surprisingly private one, too, for someone who was so immediately recognizable and so candid during his long and wildly successful life.
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Reader Manish Kejriwal shares his memories.
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Dr. Jerome Kassirer served as editor of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine for eight years during the 1990s. During that time, he says, doctors&#39; conflicts of interest became an increasingly evident problem.
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This article was reported by Barry Meier, Gina Kolata and Andrew Pollack and written by Mr. Meier. In the mid-1990&#39;s, the medical community reached an inescapable conclusion.
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The study finds that parents whose children died of cancer had no regrets about talking to them about death, while some who didn&#39;t do so were sorry later.
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At Brigham and Women's Hospital, a group of doctors last week gathered around the ''most physiologically gifted athlete in the world,&quot; and watched her breathe.
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When painful medicine is involved, closeness to a patient can make for fuzzy views.