There is a palpable tension eating away at the doctor-patient relationship. Doctors are over-capacity. Patients are under-informed and lack the confidence needed to properly self-advocate for their ...

I’ve written before about the patient’s role in creating a good relationship with their doctor: Be on time for your appointments; write down your questions and concerns; don’t waste time on chitchat; ...

Many doctors claim that the most fulfilling part of their job is their relationships with patients, but because so many people rely on the Internet for health information these days, those connections ...

Patients with hidradenitis suppurativa tend to rate their actual patient-doctor relationship based on their satisfaction with life and state of mental health. The satisfaction score assigned was ...

During my introduction to flying status as a flight surgeon, at headquarters, Strategic Air Command (SAC), US Air Force, I was introduced to the “wingman” principle. I was to be the squadron and ...

From walk-in clinics to telemedicine, patients today have many options when they need medical care. Often, convenience trumps loyalty. A 2018 study by Virginia Commonwealth University Health System ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Mark Nassim is a family physician in Ottawa. Nassim accepts — even embraces — patients’ use of AI as a way to open helpful ...

It’s the season of goblins, scary movies — and ghosts. It’s an appropriate time, I think, to discuss a situation I’m seeing more and more: medical ghosting. The term “ghosting,” which came in to our ...

When I was training to become a physician, the rules of the broken, outdated, patriarchal medical system were made clear to me. They went something like this. The Old Medicine As your doctor, I will ...

You told a reader to call doctors by their last name until invited otherwise. Your writer had called the doctor by the first name on the first visit. Had she never been to a doctor before? No one ...