Matthew Sacchet, Ph.D., Director of the Meditation Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is senior author of a paper in ...

In this systematic review, the authors summarized the wide range of peer-reviewed literature that links continuity of the doctor-patient relationship to health care costs and care utilization. This ...

In his impious 1911 glossary “The Devil’s Dictionary” – a collection of humorous definitions — Ambrose Bierce defined a physician as “one upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.” ...

While the rationale for embracing the hard sciences before starting a science-based career is obvious, the importance of building a solid foundation in the humanities may be less apparent to ...

Formerly called medicine in literature, medical humanities is an interdisciplinary sub-field which is considered to be a “dialogue rather than a merger” between the literary and the medical. In its ...