Delivering bad news: 'Patients remember these conversations forever'
We've all feared hearing a doctor say, "We need to talk."
Feb 21, 2020
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We've all feared hearing a doctor say, "We need to talk."
Feb 21, 2020
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A key factor of solid patient/doctor relationships is a notion of empathy that drives a feeling of shared humanity.
Feb 5, 2020
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A longitudinal study of 3,756 U.S. medical students provides evidence that racism in medical schools influenced their decisions on whether to practice in minority or underserved communities.
Aug 1, 2019
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Reviewers selecting candidates for residencies in medical school radiology programs discriminated against applicants who were obese or facially unattractive, according to a study from Duke Health researchers.
Jun 4, 2019
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Academic medical centers across the country and around the world are rapidly creating and expanding population health departments to bridge the worlds of clinical practice and public health. However, few frameworks exist ...
May 30, 2019
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Large numbers of U.S. physicians and medical trainees engage in hands-on clinical experiences abroad where they gain skills working across cultures with limited resources. However, providers from low- and middle-income countries ...
Mar 28, 2019
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An ambitious health economics study from a consortium of five Japanese universities has shown that different university programs to promote the equal geographic distribution of physicians increases the number of graduates ...
Mar 11, 2019
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Nearly 20,000 future doctors will graduate from U.S. medical school this spring, and embark on the residency training that launches their careers. Right now, they're choosing which hospitals and health systems they'd most ...
Jan 14, 2019
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In a case study published online last week in Academic Medicine, an international team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins Medicine looked at what prevented employees from raising concerns. ...
Sep 20, 2018
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When Dr. Luis Castellanos was a resident at UC San Diego School of Medicine, he noticed there weren't many Spanish-speaking physicians on staff, even though Latinos comprise about a third of the city's population. Occasionally, ...
May 21, 2018
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