A first-year medical student talks about how she plans to maintain her sense of compassion during medical training.
When 12-year-old Lizneidy Serratos was airlifted to the Bay Area in early August, her heart was pumping so weakly that she could not walk or eat.
A new generation of brain cancer patients are working to improve care and connect and support patients using social media and advocacy.
Empathy is a skill that physicians can learn and, writes Dean Lloyd Minor, it’s definitely a skill worth learning.
A Stanford study examines a key aspect of artificial intelligence: If machines provide advice for patient care, who should those machines be learning from?
A Stanford study finds that the kinder a health provider seemed to a patient, the more time the patient felt was spent on them.
After a year of baffling symptoms, two Stanford specialists pieced together the puzzle of this woman's disease.
In this piece Stanford medical student Nathaniel Fleming describes the teamwork involved in becoming a physician.
A new white paper from Stanford Medicine details obstacles and offers solutions for achieving the full potential of electronic health records.
PHIND scientists discuss how to stop disease in its track, aiming for earlier diagnostics and more precise medical treatments.
At the recent Stanford 25 Skills Symposium, Kelley Skeff led a workshop to help physicians become better medical teachers.
In an essay for The New England Journal of Medicine, a Stanford resident writes about trusting intuition when a patient needs more than medical facts.
When Stanford Medicine’s three organizations set about working together to achieve a shared vision, it was an opportunity to collaborate in ways they never had …
While some fear artificial intelligence making inroads into health care, Stanford Medicine Dean Lloyd Minor welcomes it.
A Stanford medicine patient regains quality of life after receiving treatment for his rare inflammatory esophagus condition.
A new study by Stanford researchers finds patients' allergic reactions dissipated more quickly when they were offered assurance by a doctor.
