The patient's check-up begins, as most now do, by sitting down and typing my username and password into a computer. After a kind greeting, I launch into the growing checklist of tasks called quality ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a female physician in a rural town. This is a retirement community, and I have a number of older male patients. Sometimes a man will stand when I enter the exam room, and it is ...

News of physicians accused or convicted of sexually inappropriate behavior toward patients during medical exams has been frequent recently. And patient advocates have brought up the fact that many ...