Let’s be willing to stand up to our patients’ pressure for us to “endorse” CBD products until after robust clinical trials are completed.

What follows are a few thoughts that I learned on the job, often without warning, sometimes too late.

In the real world, when you are scheduling your next visit, try hard to make it early in the day, before your doctor is too tired to think optimally.

Physicians are intelligent, driven, and resourceful. We have to be, or we wouldn’t have made it to where we are. So why are we such victims to health administrators, CEOs, and insurance companies?

This problem will ultimately require system-wide solutions.

Oral naloxegol is a peripherally acting µ-opioid receptor antagonist that is FDA-approved for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation in adults with chronic noncancer pain.

We all have to educate our state representatives and CMS that the strategy of cutting physician reimbursement is a shortsighted approach.

Physicians often, by virtue of their degree, have easier access to medical care. Yet the care they actually receive may be substandard. Here's why.

Medical centers and medical schools should widely celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week

It is unbelievable that none of the five experts would mention treating the cloudiness of the lens before treating the more obviously diseased cornea.

Balancing the risks versus benefits of any test, procedure, or treatment is integral to everything we do in medicine.

Over the last 50 years, Medicare has improved the delivery of health care services for nearly one-fifth of the U.S. population.

I am not the person I was before I became sick.

Eventually, my brother was ready. He told everyone he was done. In the end, he was hoping for death and faced it with the grace and bravery he did his entire illness.

We need to talk about our issues, and we need to feel like we are being heard. We need to heal.

We must be attentive to our surroundings, and we must ask those hard questions to the apartment complex with the broken pool gate or educate the friends with easy access to their pools.

In whatever way we can get our young people more in touch with how stress feels in their bodies, and how to manage it, the less it may affect them.

Social media's leading physician voice, Kevin Pho, MD, describes the powerful role social media can play when used to build and strengthen relationships betw...

After all, that’s why I went into medicine. I will not forget.

One of the biggest changes to health care over the last 20 years has been the corporatization of medicine, from small independent physician practices, to large corporations that now run the show.

Did you know that a common trigger of a cyclic vomiting-like syndrome is cannabis?

While some medical experts say "first" doesn't aid public comprehension, the FDA seems enamored with that framing.

Celebrities and others must understand that they have a powerful platform. In the meantime, it is humbling to see how there are many who use it in a positive manner.

Let’s stop the hate on the Californian doctor!