Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael L. Millenson writes about healthcare as a skeptical optimist. An unusual study gives a new twist to the idea of ...

Who hasn't sat in a medical office, listening to computer keys clacking while their provider rapidly types up notes, wondering what they are spending so much time writing about? For doctors, who have ...

When you go to the doctor you share a lot of information, but what if someone else was listening and taking notes so your doctor didn't have to? A study based at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta and Mass ...

If you want to live longer, see a female doctor, researchers say. Patients with female doctors have lower rates of mortality and remission than patients treated by male doctors, according to a study ...