Health Education

Understanding Lab Results: Your Lab Report Doesn’t Know What Your Week Felt Like The number matters. So does the morning, meal, or difficult week surrounding it. It is the last Friday in September. The alarm is going off earlier, the calendar is filling faster, and summer’s breathing room already feels far away. This is often when people finally complete [...]

Become a Citizen Physician: How to Take an Active Role in Your Healthcare Medication safety begins with understanding that no prescription exists in isolation from the person taking it. A 2016 analysis published in The BMJ estimated that medical errors contribute to more than 250,000 American deaths each year. The authors argued that if medical error were recorded [...]