Emergency physician Ferdinando Mirarchi and attorney Thaddeus Mason Pope explain why 80 percent of physicians read an advance directive as a DNR order.

A first code as a medical student ends in a trauma bay with a young man's death. See the words a resident offered in the stairwell that still guide every code.

The words you put in a patient’s chart can be used to deny their disability claim. A note that says “stable” or “improved” can mean one thing to you and another to the insurer. Jennifer Hess, an ERISA ...

In pediatric oncology, nutrition is often reduced to a simple question: Is the child eating enough? In practice, it is rarely that straightforward. During intensive cancer treatment, appetite, ...

Payer contracting has reached an inflection point. Although these contracts are the lifeblood of a health system, the managed care function is often seen as a routine set of transactional and ...

The most important moment of a medical appointment usually happens at the very end, with a hand on the doorknob. Every physician knows the moment. The visit is over. The official reason for it (the ...

New fear unlocked: waking up to a viral TikTok of "me," gushing about a probiotic nasal spray that cures chronic sinus infections. As a board-certified ear, nose, and throat surgeon, I've been ...

Every nurse who has ever called you at two in the morning remembers how you answered. You remember almost none of them. That asymmetry runs the hospital at night. The caller carries every response ...

Cara Lunsford is a nurse and vice president of health care policy and clinical solutions at Relias. She has eighteen years of nursing experience, including over a decade in pediatric oncology, and has ...

Dr. Fady Hannah-Shmouni’s recent KevinMD essay, “Continuing medical education needs a tutor, not a lecture,” makes a case I share without reservation. Slide decks and ten-question quizzes survive ...

I write to you as a person with four decades of experience on the business side of health care, specifically in the revenue cycle industry. Importantly in those forty years, the overwhelming majority ...

Psychiatrist Ravi Singareddy did something rare in his recent KevinMD piece on accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): He slowed the hype down. SAINT's open-label pilot reported remission ...