Healthcare providers who need to connect with patients have more competition than ever in grabbing their attention. Consumers are bombarded with calls and emails—particularly in this era of rampant ...

A recently published study used linguistic analysis to investigate communication gaps between patients with Parkinson disease and physicians about off periods using a database containing dialogues ...

Disbelief. Judgment. Gaslighting. Dismissal. These are among the responses that patients with chronic, complex disorders, including long COVID, have received from many health care providers. These ...

Patterns of Opioid Prescription, Use, and Costs Among Patients With Advanced Cancer and Inpatient Palliative Care Between 2008 and 2014 Oncologists face ethical challenges when patients use ...

A majority of individuals who are deaf or have hearing loss face significant communication barriers when accessing care through the National Health Service (NHS), with nearly two-thirds of patients ...

Eye-tracking systems can support communication with critically ill patients in intensive care units. Intubated, ventilated, unable to speak: due to their condition, many critically ill patients are ...

In the last 50 years, the model for physician–patient interaction has gradually moved from a physician-led, authoritarian model (paternalistic) to that of a collaboration between physician and patient ...

There are still myriad patients who have not returned to the dental chair since the COVID-19 pandemic incited lockdowns across the U.S. in March 2020. Although nearly 99% of dental practices have ...

Many people with Lou Gehrig's disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), first start to lose the ability to move their arms and legs. That's not Pat Bennett. She can move just fine. She ...