It’s the season of goblins, scary movies — and ghosts. It’s an appropriate time, I think, to discuss a situation I’m seeing more and more: medical ghosting. The term “ghosting,” which came in to our ...

If you are a doctor, the odds are that your patients think or do things you don’t agree with. Nearly half of Americans believe at least one health-related conspiracy theory, people routinely lie to ...

Dr. Alok Patel hopes to get patients to fess up on bad behavior. — -- April Fool’s is here and everyone has a get-out-of-free card for the most inventive lie. Aside from the holiday of hoax, most ...

An Austin family medicine doctor has been suspended after allegations that he started sexual relationships with two patients. The Texas Medical Board has suspended a family medicine doctor in Austin ...

MISSION, Texas (Gray News) – A doctor in Texas has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he was convicted of falsely diagnosing patients with diseases they did not have in order to fund his ...

CLEVELAND, Oh - How friendly can you be with your healthcare providers? I’m never sure how friendly to be with a healthcare provider. It only seems polite to ask about family and engage in a little ...

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