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Have you or your family ever benefitted from patient services?  Offered by many hospitals, clinics, and even pharmaceutical companies, pa...

An anemic patient is unable to recover because he isn’t taking the prescribed amount of the supplement given to him by his doctor because...

Reasons why medical devices fail are numerous. Design flaws, lack of good manufacturing practices, not involving doctors, inadequate clea...

November is Family Caregiver Month, a time to acknowledge the many hardworking individuals who tirelessly support their parents, children...

There are a lot of challenges in the doctor-patient relationship.  One that’s becoming increasingly noticeable as society gets more globa...

FROM WHY TO HOW There once was a time when medical device manufacturers asked themselves “why translate?” but the global markets and inte...

When I write about translators and interpreters on this blog, it’s usually regarding some abstract issue or debate among them or an inter...

Whether it’s for travel or a long-term stay, going abroad means you’ll have lots of things to plan. It’s easy to forget certain details. ...

Last December, I wrote a post here about how I hoped more medical professionals would start using social media and other digital communic...

When I first saw my new GP’s examining room, I gasped in grateful surprise.  Unlike my previous doctor’s office, this one looked clean an...

A few years ago, I slapped a doctor.  Three times.  It wasn’t premeditated or motivated by something he said; he just kept jabbing a tong...

A study made headlines recently when it revealed that press releases about medical discoveries and news are often exaggerated or misinter...

The other day, my mother-in-law told me about a friend’s daughter who’d left a nursing position at a local hospital to pursue her dream o...

In a recent article, marketing expert Matthew Bushery lists some New Year’s resolutions he’d like to see in his field. All his talk of so...

There were a few things that surprised me about an article on New York Magazine’s The Cut, called 10 Men Explain Why They Became Gynecolo...

At first, a doctor might believe I’m just an average patient. But the minute a needle comes out, all bets are off. A boyfriend of mine t...

It’s not that my doctor is a bad or neglectful one; this is de rigueur for many of us. Although there are people who have a close relati...

Do you read things even though you know they’ll make you angry?  I do sometimes, and apparently I’m not alone; a word has recently been c...

Recently, I read the title of an article called “When Doctors ‘Google’ Their Patients” and thought, “What a good idea!”  I’m a big fan of...

While Spanish is the most translated language in the United States, these translations are often fraught with errors because translators ...