But most patients will tell you the same thing about their doctor: they don’t make that connection at a human level. They are ...

Between one-off charges, administrative fees, and office visit copays, some are trying ...

Liz Helms still remembers the way her doctor looked at her 30 years ago, when she described the severe pain she was ...

One in six patients are deemed to be dissatisfied and demanding. But to prevent difficult medical problems from being redefined as difficult patients, doctors need help ...

As a health policy professional who has spent nearly two decades working in health care quality measurement—much of it at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and private payers—I (Ma) ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Primary care doctors have heard it all—yet there are four words they hope their patients don’t say. Here’s ...

From Dr Greene’s hubris to House’s Vicodin addiction to the traumatized doctors in The Pitt, could modern depictions of flawed physicians be doing more harm than good?