To adapt a well-worn idiom, senior hospital leadership often risk missing a low-level storm stressing the whole forest for the sake of a few high-maintenance trees up front. 

After a 10-day trial, Emily Mitchell and her family were awarded the money by a unanimous nine-person jury. The woman was supposed to have a cyst on her ovary removed instead during the March 2023 procedure.

Primary care physicians who are on the payrolls of hospitals and health systems enjoy well-supported practice infrastructure and robust peer engagement. But they’re sometimes vexed by red tape and style-cramping oversight. Meanwhile independent PCPs … 

With the change, premiums are expected to rise. However, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services confirmed they cannot inflate by more than 6%, as capped by the Inflation Reduction Act. 

Like the emergency physicians they work alongside, ER nurses experience moral distress in substantial numbers and multifaceted ways, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Nursing.

Details are emerging in the extraordinary case of a U.S. toddler who was found alive in a hospital morgue five or six hours after an ER doctor declared the child dead by drowning. 

A poll of parents shows a distressingly large portion of this demographic is at a loss when it comes to scheduling appointments, figuring out whether or not they need medical care and navigating the healthcare system. 

The next 10 years will see the technology’s job-replacement rate largely determined by non-technological factors. 

Warning healthcare consumers about the unreliability of AI for medical advice is like screaming at tourists for frolicking in a decorative fountain on an oppressively hot and humid day. 

In theory, GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs like semaglutide and tirzepatide should save a lot of money for the health insurers that pay for them. As it turns out, the lived reality is not keeping pace with the idealistic expectation.