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At one Indiana medical school, students are taught to think of their cadavers as their first patients — and may even meet their families. Critics contend this may cross an ethical line and put students in an uncomfortable position.
Medicine is still a high-paying profession, according to a recent survey, but few doctors consider themselves “rich.”
Desperate times often call for desperate measures, and for students with mounting education debt, that apparently means selling themselves.
We rank physicians among the most trustworthy members of our society, but a new survey finds the respect isn’t always mutual.
Would you take weight-loss advice from a doctor who hasn’t got control of his own size?
A program in New York City is reviving house calls for Medicare patients with multiple illnesses in hopes of saving money on emergency room visits and hospital care.
One in three people on Medicare have surgery in the final year of their lives, and many have surgery in their last month, according to a new study published in The Lancet.
When the 40 students in Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine’s inaugural class arrive at the school’s new campus in Hempstead, N.Y., on July 25, they will receive a rather humbling initiation into their chosen profession: they will be required to ride on dozens of ambulance tours over the next two years.
Even if your doctor doesn’t have the best beside manner, you’re probably willing to excuse her behavior as long as she treats your condition and makes you healthy again, right?
I love PRP. So far. Platelet rich plasma is a red liquid I have injected, to date, into five patient’s heels and four patient’s elbows. These people were probably going to need surgery. The foot patients had insertional Achilles tendonopathy, or tenderness and pain at the back of the heel. The others had tennis elbows. [...]
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