The patient was dying, and she knew it. In her mid-50s, she had been battling breast cancer for years, but it had spread to her bones, causing unrelenting pain that required hospitalization. Jeremy ...

NEW YORK, April 11 (UPI) --Physician empathy is an important aspect in a doctor-patient relationship, and now it has been linked to better outcomes among people with chronic pain, a new study finds.

Meet Dr. Lorinda Torres Rodgers, an MDVIP-affiliated physician in The Colony who delivers personalized, compassionate primary care built on time, trust and empathy.

As a senior medical student, Andrew Mills watched his teacher, an intensive care physician, talk with the family of a 20-year-old man who had tried to hang himself. Dr. Ralph Levitt, clinical ...

The vast majority, nearly 80%, of the AI answers were preferred by a panel of licensed healthcare professionals. The authors of the study believe their findings show room for doctors to improve their ...

Patients with chronic pain often feel marginalized when their symptoms are not explained by diagnostic tests and their physicians may appear powerless in treating them. The patient-physician ...

More than half of all practicing physicians show signs of burnout, studies show. Contemporary physicians face tremendous pressures due to a confluence of factors, including balancing heavy patient ...

An April 28 article in JAMA Internal Medicine, “Comparing Physician and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses to Patient Questions Posted to a Public Social Media Forum,” generated a great deal of ...

Leicester (UK), Nov 10 (The Conversation) Artificial intelligence has mastered chess, art and medical diagnosis. Now it’s apparently beating doctors at something we thought was uniquely human: empathy ...

I’m tired of hearing about anti-vaxxers. They’re loud, they’re wrong, and, after persisting through two years of the deadliest public health crisis in recent memory, I’m pretty sure they’re here to ...

“Well, then. I’m going to die, aren’t I?” my friend asked me from a bed in the emergency room. I faced him and his wife. I had worked with Alan Davidson for 20 years. A recently retired ER attending ...