A new scoping review in npj Digital Medicine should be read by every clinician who treats serious mental illness. Diel, Torous, and colleagues reviewed 119 articles on the mental health harms of large ...

We measure blood pressure before a patient has a stroke. We check cholesterol before a coronary event. We evaluate vision before impairment interferes with driving or reading. So why is hearing ...

The last patient leaves around six. Dinner happens, eventually, and the kids go down around eight. The laptop comes back out after that, open to a stack of notes from a day that had exactly zero room ...

“Do No Harm” is perhaps the most famous medical maxim. But reciting it is one thing; living by it is another. Sometimes, the question of “harm” is up for debate. Throughout history, physicians have ...

As an incoming fifth-year dental student beginning my clinical internship at Tamale Teaching Hospital, the major tertiary referral center for northern Ghana, I expected to refine my surgical hand and ...

Walk into any exam room today, and you’ll find more than a conversation between a clinician and a patient. Behind every visit is a steady stream of digital interactions: marketing messages, electronic ...

A doctor cracked open an airplane emergency kit and found a sticker saying there was no epinephrine inside. Lianne Mandelbaum, president of No Nut Traveler and airline correspondent for Allergic ...

A physician says she is exhausted after months of working short-staffed. Burnout. A resident feels increasingly detached from patients after repeated 80-hour weeks. Burnout. A doctor cannot stop ...

I’m not a physician. I want to say upfront that this is just a theory; however, working with physicians and being married to one for twenty-one years has sparked a theory I think is worth bringing up.

An eye surgeon who used to see forty patients a day now sees one to three in a morning, and he has no staff. Oren Fass, a board-certified ophthalmologist and cataract surgeon, has been an employed ...

Artificial intelligence is making health information easier to summarize, explain, organize, and discuss. A patient can copy a laboratory report into a chatbot, ask for help understanding a medical ...

I currently split my time between two worlds. I see patients in clinic and also work on AI and innovation in the health system. Most days, the dichotomy is an asset. Some days, it feels like it is two ...