Bedside cardiac assessment (BCA) involves gathering a patient's medical history, performing a physical examination, and determining the need for diagnostic testing. Physicians integrate this ...

Most commonly reported error in the physical exam is that the exam was never performed Report in the New England Journal of Medicine is part of a six-issue series on ...

Increased workload, clerical demands, high-patient volumes and staffing issues can limit doctors’ and attending physicians’ availability to fully engage and prioritize connectivity with patients.

An event last week on cancer imaging, led by patients for patients, embodied the ethos of ‘bench to bedside and back again’ – researchers, clinicians and patients working together, and learning from ...

Successfully treating chronic pain is challenging, as patients respond heterogeneously to analgesic treatments. Such variation in response can be attributed to differing underlying pain-generating ...

A primary purpose of the medical education system is to prepare future physicians for clinical practice. When physician trainees are engaged in patient care with increasingly distant supervision, they ...

Today's doctor visits look and feel a lot different than they did even just a couple decades ago. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Rushed physicians and medical ...