It was in late spring of 1964, just a day after graduating from high school, that a diminutive farm girl packed her belongings and bade farewell to the life she had known in the Smoky Mountains of ...

For years, I spoke about the importance of coordinated care. Long before the term became fashionable, I helped build what would later become known as a medical home at Minot Air Force Base. The ...

More procedures are now performed far from the traditional operating room. Endoscopy units, interventional radiology suites, cardiac catheterization laboratories, and MRI rooms routinely host patients ...

Someone you love says they are fine. They still eat, they still go to work, and no one asks a second time. Nneka Oluoha is an internal medicine physician and the author of a novel about a Nigerian ...

One of the most useful teaching techniques I have used as a preceptor is also one of the simplest: I think out loud. Experienced clinicians make hundreds of small decisions throughout the day. We know ...

The 1960s marked the end of “the good old days” of America’s health care system. In those days, there were no HMOs, PPOs, medical exchanges and the like; there were just doctors, hospitals, and health ...