Last week Kevin Pho wrote about a physician in Boston, Alexandra Thran, who was disciplined by both her hospital and the state medical board for writing about a trauma patient she had seen. Although ...

Reader's Response to WVE "America's Labs" "Recognition and praise from other members of the healthcare team are a good start, but real challenge and opportunity to be a functioning member of the ...

Rural hospital leaders recently shared strategies and insights on improving safety culture, governance and care reliability at the AHA’s Rural Patient Safety Convening in Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 6-8.

The Elbert P. Tuttle U.S. Courthouse in Atlanta, home of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. (Photo via Eoghanacht/Wikipedia Commons) ATLANTA (CN) --- The 11 th Circuit on Wednesday upheld a Florida ...

I’m pleased to tell my readers that a new skeptically-based medical blog is now online: Science Based Medicine. It has five bloggers, all MDs, posting regularly one day a week. Skeptics will be ...

Harvard University Medical School is withdrawing from U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of top medical schools in the country based on “philosophical” issues with the list. Dean George Daley ...

Every year I work with eager (and anxious) high school and college students preparing for a career in medicine. What I want students to know is that medical schools admissions is not a mystery. In ...

I recently experienced a medical emergency and unexpected hospital stay. I’m about halfway through Baby Step 2, and I’m paying off my debts using the debt snowball system. I have good insurance, but ...