The Supreme Court held a hospital in Andhra Pradesh liable for a patient's death due to a doctor's negligence. The case ...

Efforts to plug a shortage of primary care physicians in California, while well intended, have been scattershot and ...

Effective discharge planning and communication between hospitalists and outpatient providers are crucial for ensuring ...

The towns and cities where people face the longest waits for GP appointments have been named. New data shows how seeing your ...

Some patients with a terminal illness seem to be able to ‘hold on’ until after an anticipated holiday or event. This might be ...

"A patient came in after what was described as a 'head injury.' We realized how bad it was after seeing a plastic grocery bag ...

The future of medicine will belong to the physicians who are empowered, not sidelined, by technology. And to the patients who ...

“Experience has taught us that for those who have lost someone close to them, a one-year waiting period after the death is ...

These types of mistakes are often described as “never events,” a term first coined in 2002 to refer to preventable medical ...

Los Angeles pediatrician and urgent care specialist Dr. Ilan Shapiro worries for his chronically ill patients as he watches ...

"I could feel everything — it was pulling, ripping, burning. And the only way I can think to describe it is just feeling like ...

Collaboration was key to survival. A partnership between Akron Children's Hospital and Cincinnati Children's meant Penelope could be flown to Cincinnati for a potential liver transplant and the ...