A new study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine seeks to determine how interns spent their time in the hospital. Researchers conducted an “observational study on inpatient ward rotations at two internal medicine residency programs at large academic medical centers … Interns spent 12 % of their...

An article in The Boston Globe reports that medical students experience a great drop in empathy between the time they start medical school and the time they graduate. “The most significant drop occurred in the third year, just as students started caring for their first patients.” Empathy is becoming more...

Author Sam Shem, MD, explains how he came to write the infamous The House of God. From being rejected by the older generations of doctors to being the rockstar of current ones, Sam discusses his mission to humanize medicine. Read more about Sam Shem,...