Digital health apps, which let patients chat with doctors or health coaches or even receive likely medical diagnoses from a bot, are transforming modern health care. They are also — in practice — being used as suicide crisis hotlines.
A new text flashes across my phone: "Simon is screaming." It’s Saturday, 9:13 p.m. My kids are fast asleep and I’m out with my dog. I open the full message: "Hi Dr. Bottino. Simon is screaming. He has a red bum. What do you recommend? I reply: "Hi, how’s he doing besides the red bum?"
Chickenpox parties were once a popular way for parents to expose their children to the virus so they would get sick, recover and build up immunity to the disease. Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin stirred up controversy this week when he told a radio show host that he exposed all nine of his children to a neighbor who was sick with the virus.
A doctor concludes that an elderly patient has less than six months to live. A second doctor disagrees. One of the predictions will be wrong. But was it false?
A former UW Health doctor who resigned in 2017 amid allegations of sexual misconduct involving a patient was charged Thursday with felony and misdemeanor counts of sexual assault.
A Tennessee woman is suing Vanderbilt University Medical Center claiming a doctor at the hospital operated on the wrong kidney, causing health problems she will experience for the rest of her life. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Davidson County Circuit Court. Carla Miller is asking for $20 million in damages.