On the afternoon of Feb. 14, Fawn Patterson got a call from her daughter telling her to come to the hospital. Amanda Ray Carrillo was pregnant with her fifth child, and she was bleeding.
Not all patients are the same. If they were, the machine would have already replaced the doctor. Physicians were drawn to medicine for the art of caring for the patient. The details, the nuances and the subtleties of the person as a whole, from the story to the exam to the anatomy, add a level of clinical complexity that keeps the physician both humble and curious.
The vast majority of African Americans develop high blood pressure by their mid-50s, compared to just over half of white men and less than half of white women, a newly published study suggest.
Enhanced brief intervention services administered to patients presenting with suicidal concerns to emergency departments (ED) helped reduce subsequent suicidal behaviors, a study found.
Decades ago, physicians were among the most trusted members of their communities. Clinicians were viewed along with the clergy as venerable sources of knowledge, life experience and comfort. Much like religious vocations, careers in medicine were regarded as a calling.
People with liver failure and cirrhosis die every year because there are not enough livers available. Who should receive the treasured life-saving organ? There is an organ allocation system in place, which has evolved over time, that ranks patients who need liver transplants.