At the dawn of the first of five strike days, junior doctors stood at the picket lines in bright orange coats – flames of protest flickering against a dispute grown cold. One placard captured the ...

Unfortunately, we can’t control other people’s gross behavior — so if the worst does happen and you’ve gotten a face full of someone else’s infectious fluids, here’s ...

Q: I feel so rushed during my doctor’s appointments. There’s hardly any time for my doctor to get to know me or to address what concerns me the most. What can I do with these hurried 15-minute visits?

Fevers are frightening for both our little ones and us as parents. But according to Dr. Katie, an emergency doctor who’s seen it all, there are a few things she wishes every parent understood about ...

Tsai is an emergency medicine physician and writer. Growing up, my father always instructed me to pronounce my name correctly. He taught me if I wasn’t careful to pronounce the hard T, it would sound ...

The author using a vein finder to help the nurses locate a vein so chemotherapy can be delivered. Courtesy of Catherine Sue Hwang When I went to the hospital last year for my annual mammogram, I ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. With more than 270,000 members, the American Medical Association is by far the nation ...

A young woman stepped into my hospital’s emergency room, vomiting blood. With her skin bright yellow from jaundice, her abdomen full of fluid and her hands tremulous, we quickly diagnosed her with ...

Courtesy of Dr. Darshan Shah. Dr. Darshan Shah has been a physician and board-certified surgeon for 30 years. About ten years ago, his family history of diabetes and a health scare led Shah, 52, to ...