Diversity MD

On Saturday Google dedicated their doodle to the first Native American Female Physician, Susan La …

Jack Turban graduated from Harvard University and Yale School of Medicine, and for the last …

Most doctors would love to have a clone of themselves to help with their patient …

Jacee Dellapena, 12, was nervous she wouldn’t be able to see her new brother be …

I had the good fortune to speak at the March for Science in Boston over the weekend. …

Pediatric cardiologists at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford are taking inspiration from the video game …

Family medicine faculty is more diverse than other faculties, but women and minorities still hold …

When Laurence Wellikson, CEO of the Society of Hospital Medicine, first started guest lecturing in …

When a patient goes to the best hospital, he or she usually hopes for a doctor who is knowledgeable and experienced. Something else to wish for? A woman physician.That's because female doctors may on average be better than their male counte...

One of the most common mistakes young physicians make when taking a job is accepting whatever is offered. When you are reviewing a job offer and contract, keep in mind that all terms—not just compensation—can be negotiated.

Every health care system in the world is facing its fair share of challenges. Aging populations, the exponential increase in chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes, expensive new treatments—all at a time when most countries desperately need to curtail rising health care costs to save their economies. At the two extremes, we have fully public-funded (socialized) medicine versus entirely free-market (private) health care delivery systems. I’ve written previously about my own experiences working in a number of different environments including the U.K., Australia, and U.S. — three countries with vastly different systems, and how the ideal probably resides somewhere in-between the two extremes. I don’t think that a fully centralized system such as the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) is something that any country should ever be aspiring to. As fair as it sounds — completely free health care at the point use — patients, unfortunately, don’t always get the choice or service that they need in a top-heavy bureaucratic setup.

As medical director of the telehealth program at University of Washington (UW) Medicine, John Scott, MD, MSc, has witnessed the difference that telehealth can make. The physician and associate professor of medicine at UW has treated rural p...

What is the Problem? Having a diverse physician workforce is a critical component in making health care available to those who need it most. The lack of diversity of medical students, coupled with ineffective cultural competency education,...

Though California is among the most diverse places in the nation, its doctors, unfortunately, don’t reflect the demographics of the state. Overall, physicians here are older, whiter and more likely to be male than their patients, and that’s just one of several ways in which California’s health care lags the demands of the market, not to mention patients’ needs.