It's already hard enough to understand all your doctor's technical talk -- now imagine speaking a whole other language on top of that. Hospital patients who don't speak the same language as their ...

A positive patient-doctor relationship is an ingredient to a healthy life, and new research has zeroed in on the impact ...

When I started my first week of primary care as a resident physician, I was not expecting to use greetings such as “Bonjour” and “Ahlan wa Sahlan” as part of my interactions with my patients, but that ...

A computer analysis of hundreds of thousands of secure email messages between doctors and patients found that most doctors use language that is too complex for their patients to understand. The study ...