The hospital environment often feels austere, impersonal, and frightening to patients, regardless of their age. Some hospitals have found concrete, practical ways to make pediatric patients feel more ...

The idea that clinicians should listen to their patients is deceptively simple. You take a history and ask questions as you conduct a physical exam. But unhurried, deep listening is not so simple, eve...

Engaging in sensitive, honest dialogue with seriously ill patients has become an even greater clinical challenge with the rapid progress in therapies for conditions such as advanced heart failure, can...