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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...