Larry Beresford

In addition to helping patients better manage chronic, difficult-to-treat conditions, mindfulness could help physicians manage job stress and burnout.

The responsibility for both diagnosing and managing patients with dementia often falls largely on the primary care physician.

Physicians must confront these difficult conversations

Do you know what treatments your patients would want if they became seriously or even terminally ill?

Why has health technology been so slow to deliver on its promised benefits to hospitals and physicians?

As Medicare spending on hospice care has grown steadily in recent years-reaching $15.1 billion annually-the government has stepped up its regulatory scrutiny of hospice enrollment practices to make sure that only appropriate patients are being admitted.