‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Finally Tackles Medicine’s Gender Bias
With Miranda Bailey's heart attack, sexism in medicine gets much-deserved mainstream treatment.
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Future Physician, Heal Thyself: Get Thee to a Gallery
New research finds medical students who enjoy music and art have qualities that make them better, and less-stressed, doctors.
Want to Fix America’s Opioid Problem? Start With Its Doctors.
New research finds a majority of opioids prescriptions came from office-based doctors, not emergency departments.
How One Surgery Department Cut Its Opioid Prescriptions by 7,000 Pills in Five Months
A new study reports doctors in at least one hospital were prescribing far more pills than patients used.
New Report Finds Medicare Is Plagued by ‘Extreme’ Use of Painkillers
Some Medicare beneficiaries are being prescribed opioids by 10 or more doctors, or are filling prescriptions for more than 1,000 pills a month.
In 2015, American Doctors Received $2.4 Billion in Payments From the Biomedical Industry
A new analysis shows the prevalence of payments from companies that make drugs, implants, pacemakers, and other medical devices.
Doctor Confesses: I Lied to Protect My Colleague in a Medical Malpractice Suit
A surgeon who lied about his partner’s skills on the witness stand has been haunted by the deception…
How Thousands of Doctors With Revoked Licenses Are Still Getting Paid
Physicians whose state boards have sanctioned them for harming patients, unnecessarily prescribing addictive drugs, bilking federal insurance programs,…
One Nice Meal Can Change a Doctor’s Prescribing Habits
Big pharma’s hidden path to doctors’ pens: through their stomachs. By Francie Diep (Photo: Benjamin Horn/Flickr) Sometimes, it’s…
Do Doctors Really Die Differently Than the Rest of Us?
Likely not — and it still looks like where we live, rather than what we want, most strongly shapes how…