You've known your primary doctor longer than your best friend. She has been there through minor medical issues and larger health scares. And now, she is retiring. It can feel like a real loss when a ...

Each spring, we ask nearly 13,000 doctors in DC, Maryland, & Virginia to tell us which colleague they would recommend in a variety of specialties. To ensure the data’s accuracy, each physician was ...

If you have a sore throat, a weird ache, or feel a UTI coming on, who are you going to call? Your primary care physician (PCP), of course! (No, not your best friend, although she might be a close ...

This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. I had a 12-year relationship with my primary care doctor, which abruptly ended late last year. Why the change? My doctor transitioned to a ...

When my last day finally comes — hopefully, not until I’m 105 or so — I want to be in full control of my own death. I do not want my last minutes on this agonizingly beautiful planet to be lost in a ...

When Arielle Schultz started med school last fall, she immediately found anti-fat bias baked into her lessons. She wasn’t surprised. “I’ve definitely had the experience of going to the doctor’s office ...

The Mott Haven Houses, in the Bronx, are orange brick buildings about twenty stories high. The stairwells are dangerous, the elevators slow; Greg Gulbransen, a pediatrician from Long Island, waited in ...