I worry that future healthcare professionals are increasingly being socialized into forms of communication that privilege emotional performance over genuine human presence.

The GOP bill directs MedPAC to study the topic of overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans in a manner that’s more favorable to insurers.

Our predecessors arrived with lancets, basins, and calomel, and families opened the door anyway. Two documents published this August argue about what physicians are for without ever asking why.

Operations research has a name for what a palliative care consult does to a system failure. The name explains why the failure keeps happening.

There's a word for the part of our job nobody can see. Sociologists have had it since the 1980s. We were never trained in the discipline that keeps it.

Hospice fraud occurs when hospice providers take advantage of the hospice system for financial gain. Hospice fraud has become an epidemic in California, specifically in the greater Los Angeles area. T...

She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

Three trials tested whether the conversation is the intervention. Two came back null and one looked inside the machine. None of them supports the sentence — or our answer to it.

What Specialist Palliative Care has is concentration and repetition—we are in these rooms constantly, so we have gotten fast at reading which belief has seized and where the opening is. Scarcity does ...

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

The asking is the easy part. It's the move that lets you leave the room with clean hands, a documented preference, and a man who will get chest compressions he never wanted.

Facing budget shortfalls and new federal restrictions, state leaders have begun rolling back the coverage system they built.

There are two options that are good for you. Both are disagreeable. My job is not to invent a third or to make you pronounce the medical conclusion so I don't have to be the one who said it. My job is...

The delivery models our best researchers are building don't use the binary. They use tiers, triggers, defaults, dose-response logic, and precision targeting.