Patient Care

Medical Brain Drain: A Global Health Emergency We Can No Longer Ignore

The migration of healthcare workers from low and middle-income countries (LMICs) to high-income countries (HICs) — the so-called “medical brain…

1 year ago

MITRE-Harris Poll Survey Finds Half of Patients in the US Feel Ignored or Doubted When Seeking Medical Treatment

A new survey finds 52 percent of individuals feel their symptoms are “ignored, dismissed, or not believed” when seeking medical…

3 years ago

Women Suffer Because of Medical Misinformation About Debilitating Menstrual Pain

Menstrual pain isn't something like a stomach ache, and it isn't caused by mental conflict about being female, but too…

3 years ago

Why Is There No True, Empathic Patient Engagement or Is There?”

Healthcare professionals have entered a field where empathy, compassion, and an ability to relate well to patients are implicitly mandated.

3 years ago

Babson Diagnostics, BD Expand Strategic Partnership to Advance Diagnostic Blood Collection in New Care Settings

Babson Diagnostics and BD announced the expansion of a strategic partnership to move blood sample collection into new care settings

3 years ago

Sometimes You Need to Say No, for the Patient and Yourself

A frightening midnight phone call leads a young surgeon to reconsider how he approaches his career

3 years ago

Are Healthcare’s Behemoths Destroying Healthcare?

Healthcare is broken. A popular refrain that echoes all too often through the hallways of American healthcare institutions. There is…

3 years ago

Cutting-Edge Innovation Is Not Enough To Save Lives

Yesterday, my 97-year-old physician father-in-law died.  His longevity was the result of great medical advances during the past two decades,…

4 years ago

People Needing Access to Care Shouldn’t Have to Do Battle to Get It

I recently sat down with Brad Younggren, MD, Chief Medical Officer of 98point6, the growing medical technology platform providing text-first,…

4 years ago

Medical Bias and the “Stupid, Old Patient Syndrome” That Infects Healthcare Workers

Healthcare discrimination can be seen in “one out of five adults over the age of 50 years (who) experience bias in…

4 years ago

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