Why Good Friends Don't Always Make Good Doctors
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When painful medicine is involved, closeness to a patient can make for fuzzy views.
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conditions, and also provides them with positive feelings of social support. However, the reviewers found that it might also leave them in worse health.
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My friend talks rapidly on the phone. Her husband has just been diagnosed with a rare skin cancer. It is a second marriage for both, a good marriage. But suddenly they've started to bicker. This is not like them. The change is scary. What is happening here?
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"When Doctors Become Patients" (Oxford University Press, 333 pages, $35), by Robert Klitzman: At 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, Robert Klitzman's sister, Karen, called her best friend from her office on the 105th floor of the World Trade Center. No one ever heard from her again. Grief-stricken, Klitzman became depressed, but he didn't realize it for a while. He is a psychiatrist. He couldn't become mentally ill, could he?
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Doctors are saying that the lack of knowledge about preventing bone disease often leads to bad practice.
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Those strangers waiting at the doctorâs office may share a pain that others canât understand.
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Honesty isn't always the most profitable policy.
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Physicians are among the most trusted professionals in America, but a new survey shows that when it comes to dealing with colleagues' mistakes or incompetence, many doctors abandon the high standards they espouse.
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Many doctors prescribe medicine without providing detailed information about it to patients, a new study suggests.
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Doctors should know that when meeting a new patient for the first time there is no second chance to make a good first impression, researchers said on Monday.
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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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Oddly enough, good news can be bad, and vice versa.
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Health care experts are convinced that games can help people get and stay well, but they don't agree on what's the best approach. By Noah Shachtman.
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Fears that money has an undue influence on the practice of medicine are not new. In the 12th century, the Jewish philosopher Maimonides wrote an oath for physicians that included this admonition: ''Do not allow thirst for profit, ambition for renown and admiration to interfere with my profession.&quot;
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CAMBRIDGE -- We've all been there. Locking horns with a colleague who focuses on the nitty-gritty instead of the big picture, or who likes abstract ideas but ignores details. Impatient with a friend who speaks painfully slowly, or who talks too quickly and too much. Frustrated with a spouse who is overly sensitive, or who can be blunt and unemotional.
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Increasing numbers of us are Googling our own weird headaches, rashes and unexplained symptoms before heading to the doctor.  And although physicians are secretly Googling difficult medical situations, many aren't thrilled that we're doing the same thing.
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Some mentally ill patients can be mean or bad just like anyone else, and this is not a problem for psychiatry to fix.