The doctor-patient relationship is slowly approaching crisis mode. The majority of diagnoses are made by taking a good history of symptoms. A basic physical may add some to the diagnosis, and ...

Primary care doctors, rheumatologists, pain management specialists, and psychiatrists may be involved in helping individuals manage lower back pain. Lower back pain is a common and often debilitating ...

Some pain management clinics ask people to sign contracts that outline what the clinic expects from them. Some clinics may discharge people if they breach the contract. The exact number of chances ...

At a critical point in a complex abdominal operation, a surgeon was handed a device that didn’t work because it had been loaded incorrectly by a surgical technician. Furious that she couldn’t use it, ...