Physicians

The world is currently grappling with a severe shortage of healthcare workers, and the United States finds itself at the epicenter of this crisis. While there is a pressing need for more healthcare providers, it isn’t due to a lack of…

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots has opened up new possibilities for doctors and patients — but the technology also comes with the risk of misdiagnosis, data privacy issues and biases in decision-making. One of…

You may know them as the winner of Season 7 of “The Amazing Race Canada”, but if that isn’t impressive enough, Dr. James Makokis is also a Two-Spirit family physician from the Saddle Lake Cree Nation, and a world-renown expert on Indigenous…

San Francisco — Dr. Laura Scrimgeour had never met a female cardiothoracic surgeon until she met Dr. Amy Fiedler. "I think it's a real problem for women in medicine in all fields, but particularly in surgery," Scrimgeour told CBS…

View of racially diverse medical school students outside the College of Medicine at historically ... black Howard University, Washington DC, May 3, 1979. (Photo by Thomas J O'Halloran/US News & World Report Collection/PhotoQuest/Getty…

Plus, what visceral fat actually is.Visceral body fat—the layer of fat located deep within the abdominal cavity—protects organs such as the liver, stomach and intestines. However, too much of it can be hazardous to your health, especially…

The American Medical Association, which is pushing in Washington for health insurance reforms of ... prior authorization, released March 13, 2023 a new survey of 1,000 practicing physicians showing such requirements lead to “to unnecessary…

PICO RIVERA-CA-AUGUST 31, 2021: Physician Marie Flores, right, high-fives a patient at an AltaMed ... clinic. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Primary care physicians (PCPs) are the…

Resident physicians at Loma Linda University Medical Center are attempting to unionize, citing low pay and terrible working conditions that they say threaten the health of both patients and doctors. “A union is a way of saying that we will…

The country's health-care system is suffering from an acute shortage of doctors — even as hundreds of qualified Canadian physicians trained abroad are turned away each year because of a tangle of red-tape and bias, experts say.Canada is …