Tag: healthcare

In the U.S., getting pregnant can be exciting, joyful, and the first step toward a lifetime of debt.

Shalon Irving was educated, insured, and well-supported by family and friends. She still became a casualty of missed opportunities and neglect by healthcare providers.

A fat person walking into a doctor’s office can expect lectures, condescension, and misdiagnoses from a medical culture that chalks every health issue up to weight.

It’s hard to know, as it’s all being brokered behind closed doors.

Rich patient or poor patient? The New York Times and the Washington Post have dedicated a series to each.

The Edhi Foundation volunteer ambulance service drivers work for $1.30 US per day, collecting the dead and wounded in the streets of Karachi, Pakistan.

Sixty-three percent of Americans don’t have money to cover an emergency costing $500 or more. I’m one of them.

A raw look at the discomfort, confusion, and anger of being diagnosed and dealing with endometriosis, a painful reproductive disorder with mysterious origins, and no cure.

While empathy courses are rarely required in medical training, interest in them is growing, experts say, and programs are underway at Jefferson Medical College and at Columbia University School of Medicine. Columbia has pioneered a program in narrative medicine, which emphasizes the importance of understanding patients’ life stories in providing compassionate care.