Dr. Lamas, a contributing Opinion writer, is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. My patient’s wife glared at me from across his bed, where she stood ...

Patient engagement has matured from aspiration to necessity as precision medicine moves from laboratory concept to bedside. Cutting-edge therapies increasingly target narrowly defined genetic or ...

Physicians viewed 17% of patient encounters as difficult, according to a meta-analysis. Patient characteristics associated with perceived difficulty included personality disorders, depression, anxiety ...