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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Claudia Siegel got a stomach bug earlier this year, she reached out to her primary care doctor to prescribe something to relieve her diarrhea. The Philadelphia resident was surprised when she ...

Just as I finally found a primary care doctor I liked and settled into an annual checkup routine, I was shocked to receive a letter announcing that she was retiring this fall. So here we go again: ...

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 ...