A doctor in India has been suspended after shocking footage showed him repeatedly punching a patient who asked to be spoken to with respect. Senior resident Dr. Raghav Narula, who worked at the Indira ...

There is a palpable tension eating away at the doctor-patient relationship. Doctors are over-capacity. Patients are under-informed and lack the confidence needed to properly self-advocate for their ...

You told a reader to call doctors by their last name until invited otherwise. Your writer had called the doctor by the first name on the first visit. Had she never been to a doctor before? No one ...

If you are a doctor, the odds are that your patients think or do things you don’t agree with. Nearly half of Americans believe at least one health-related conspiracy theory, people routinely lie to ...

In a typical presidential election year, voters might wonder how the candidates’ views stack up on issues such as abortion, tax cuts, gun rights and immigration policy. But this year, as a 78-year-old ...

It’s the season of goblins, scary movies — and ghosts. It’s an appropriate time, I think, to discuss a situation I’m seeing more and more: medical ghosting. The term “ghosting,” which came in to our ...

Sitting at a patient's bedside is one of the behaviors associated with better doctor-patient communication, patient satisfaction, and trust. During a busy day of consultations, however, it can be ...