Emergency physician Ferdinando Mirarchi and attorney Thaddeus Mason Pope explain why 80 percent of physicians read an advance directive as a DNR order.

The office chairs most of us sit in all day have little science behind them, and the popular fixes may not be much better. Turner Osler is a trauma surgeon and epidemiologist. This episode is based on ...

Many doctors who run their own practices spend hours on work someone else could do. One practice owner who charges $300 an hour was his own receptionist, verifying insurance all night and stepping ...

In pediatric oncology, nutrition is often reduced to a simple question: Is the child eating enough? In practice, it is rarely that straightforward. During intensive cancer treatment, appetite, ...

There were three of us who probably could have been valedictorian. I was one of them. At English High School in Boston, I earned straight A's from tenth grade onward. Yet my academic record contained ...

Payer contracting has reached an inflection point. Although these contracts are the lifeblood of a health system, the managed care function is often seen as a routine set of transactional and ...

The first patient appointment begins long before we introduce ourselves. Patients often spend days gathering records, completing forms, reading about symptoms, and contemplating what we might say. As ...

Psychiatrist Ravi Singareddy did something rare in his recent KevinMD piece on accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): He slowed the hype down. SAINT's open-label pilot reported remission ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced an initiative to improve nutrition education across every stage of physician education and training. As part of the effort, dozens ...

A research letter published in JAMA Health Forum on September 25, 2026, examined the 2024 financial reports of 257 ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in Pennsylvania ...

The future of health care offers flexibility in if, how, and when providers adopt AI documentation, but the true priority is finding a middle ground where practicing medicine still feels natural.

More than 400 amputations happen in the U.S. daily. Not from gun violence, shark attacks, or car crashes, but from a disease that is easily diagnosed, preventable, and treatable, if caught early.