I am the odd man out in a family of medical folk. My maternal grandfather was a physician; his daughter, my mother, was a medical technologist; my mother-in-law, a nurse. My brother is a physician; so ...

I swear by Apollo the physician, by Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, by all the gods and all the goddesses, taking them as witnesses, that I will faithfully fulfill, according to my ability and ...

Emergency physician Newman exposes medicine's murkier aspects—truths universally observed if scarcely acknowledged: the scant time physicians spend observing their patients, the dubious benefits of ...