Sixty-nine-year old Lawrence Dawes felt ill after a long, hot day in the sun at an outdoor concert. His primary care physician, Brian Yeaman, MD, chief executive officer of Coordinated Care Oklahoma, ...

Creating an environment where patients are allowed and encouraged to tell their illness story is a crucial yet often overlooked component of cultural competence in healthcare settings. A factor that ...

For decades, cancer awareness has been recognized by the colorful ribbons signifying the months dedicated to specific diseases. Breast cancer is one of the most popular ones — with pink ribbons ...

The government’s initiative for meaningful use of electronic health records has fueled the demand for discrete, structured and actionable clinical data. As part of this initiative, healthcare ...

A dozen third-year medical students sat around a conference table with me for an hour-long narrative medicine workshop. They had just finished their internal medicine clerkship at the university ...

For many health professionals, treating patients is a matter of assessing their ailments, making a diagnosis and prescribing treatment where it is required. Then it is on to the next patient. But a ...

Life without smartphones seems nearly unthinkable today, and the reason why is simple: They facilitate countless tasks that ease daily life. The question being asked by many healthcare providers — and ...

Incidence, timing, and severity of anemia with dose-dense breast cancer adjuvant chemotherapy No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2005 ASCO ...

TALKING CURE: Students at the Mountain Area Health Education Center learn to seek the stories of their patients and not just their health data, says CEO Dr. Jeff Heck, who will be presenting at the ...

For many health professionals, treating patients is a matter of assessing their ailments, making a diagnosis and prescribing treatment where it is required. Then it is on to the next patient. But a ...