Communicating bad news to patients is one of the most stressful and challenging clinical tasks for any physician, regardless of his or her specialty. Delivering bad news to a patient or their close ...

Congress was full of good intentions when it directed the Department of Health and Human Services to make sure patients get their test results as soon as they’re available. But the implementation of ...

A total of 152 subjects participated in the research: 51 patients, 51 nurses, and 50 doctors. Doctors and nurses were sampled from the internal medicine and surgical wards which were chosen because ...

Doctors are using OpenAI’s ultra-popular AI chatbot ChatGPT in a surprising new way, the New York Times reports: to communicate with patients more empathetically. In other words, they’re using a ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 12 (UPI) --Many heart attack and stroke survivors revert to bad habits, even though their bodies gave them a stern warning about the need to take risk-reduction measures, cardiologists ...

A new HFMA report diagnoses the healthcare industry as being in "serious condition," providing a link between declining national affordability and rising patient bad debt and collection costs facing ...

The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion and marketplace exchange components opened the doors for more Americans to secure health care coverage than ever before. That should be good news, right?