In love and medicine, connection matters. You can tell quickly if a doctor is fully present — listening to understand, not ...

There is a palpable tension eating away at the doctor-patient relationship. Doctors are over-capacity. Patients are under-informed and lack the confidence needed to properly self-advocate for their ...

A friend recently returned from a doctor’s office visit upset the doctor didn’t explain much of anything. He hardly entered the examination room, asked a few superficial questions while he typed on ...

Many doctors claim that the most fulfilling part of their job is their relationships with patients, but because so many people rely on the Internet for health information these days, those connections ...

During my introduction to flying status as a flight surgeon, at headquarters, Strategic Air Command (SAC), US Air Force, I was introduced to the “wingman” principle. I was to be the squadron and ...

NEW ORLEANS — Technology is mostly thought to interfere with people interacting on a personal level, but now one local hospital says the latest artificial intelligence can improve the doctor-patient ...

When I was training to become a physician, the rules of the broken, outdated, patriarchal medical system were made clear to me. They went something like this. The Old Medicine As your doctor, I will ...

ABC News Live spoke with Dr. F. Perry Wilson about his new book. One of the most important aspects of medicine is the relationship between a doctor and their patient, according to physician and Yale ...

Physicians have worked to earn the trust of their patients for nearly 2,400 years, dating back to the days of Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine. Lucky for Hippocrates that his patients ...