Doctors and others who take care of hospitalized patients may want to sit down for this piece of news. A new study suggests that getting at a patient's eye level when talking with them about their diagnosis or care can really ...
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More than 18% of physicians reported post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a review and meta-analysis published online July 24 in JAMA Network Open.
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The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) recently released a new clinical guideline on central airway obstruction (CAO). Published in the journal CHEST, the guideline contains 12 evidence-based recommendations to ...
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Dr. Ali Rida said he became a primary care doctor because he wanted to care for his patients at the most fundamental level. But a year and a half later, he left.
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When Dr. David Wallace graduated from medical school in 1995, every visit note, prescription and lab request had to be written by hand.
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that an artificial intelligence (AI) model solved medical quiz questions—designed to test health professionals' ability to diagnose patients based on clinical ...
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Death creates a deep, lifelong impact for kids in every part of the world. In the United States, around one in 20 children will lose a parent by age 16—and countless others will grieve for a grandparent, sibling or someone ...
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As part of a nationwide trend, many more of NYU Langone Health's patients during the pandemic started using electronic health record tools to ask their doctors questions, refill prescriptions, and review test results. Many ...
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Extreme heat can raise the danger of heat-related illnesses and threaten health in a more subtle way—by amplifying the side effects of many common medications.
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More than 2,400 patients at hospitals around Portland, Oregon, may have been exposed to infectious diseases such as hepatitis B and C, as well as HIV, because of an anesthesiologist who may not have followed infection control ...
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A physician, medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, doctor of osteopathic medicine, or medical doctor practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury. This is accomplished through a detailed knowledge of anatomy, physiology, diseases and treatment — the science of medicine — and its applied practice — the art or craft of medicine.
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