Faced with "ever-shrinking time slots" for appointments, physicians must learn how to make the most out of the time they do have for face-to-face encounters with patients, Suneel Dhand, MD, an ...

Doctors may want to turn back the clock and take a lesson from “old school” physicians, suggests Suneel Dhand, M.D. That’s because over the last couple of decades, medicine has lost too much of the ...

Communication is the cornerstone of good healthcare. Despite all the external challenges we face with the system in which we work, those few minutes we spend with patients and their families are ...

What role, if any, should the hospitalist play in preventive medicine? This topic was tackled by Suneel Dhand, MD, a hospitalist and clinical professor at Tufts University, in a blog last November. Dr ...

I recently came upon an article on the site kevinmd.com, a place on the internet where some of my own work has been published in the recent past. The piece, entitled “Don’t judge patients for ...

With the release of Steven Spielberg''s epic movie, "Lincoln," the debate about another early American president appears to have resurfaced with a new intensity.Thomas Jefferson, our third president ...