Tsukuba, Japan―Effective communication among healthcare professionals is essential for ensuring safe medical care. Assertiveness, the ability to express oneself candidly while respecting others, is ...

Ada Stewart, M.D., this year stepped down as board chairperson of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Fierce Healthcare caught up with Stewart as she was in between treating patients at ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Polypharmacy is a condition that increases the risk of side effects and drug-drug interactions due to the use of more medications than necessary. In particular, older adults, who tend ...

Listen to ASCO’s Journal of Clinical Oncology essay, “Do You See Me?,” by Dr. Kristen McCullough, a Hematology Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at Mayo Clinic. The essay is followed by an interview with ...

There’s one healthcare professional that serves as the connection between patients, physicians, and prescriptions: Your local pharmacist. Encouraging patients to review medications with a pharmacist ...

A collaborative intervention model involving a clinical pharmacist significantly reduces severe hypoglycemia risk without compromising glycemic control.

Our care providers are hurting. The systems that they work within are faced with seemingly impossible choices. And patients are unable to afford care—if they can even access it in the first place. We ...

Hands-on leadership training at ETSU Gatton College of Pharmacy is helping student pharmacists strengthen communication, delegation, and teamwork in a new, innovative experience. Around forty ...

Oncology pharmacists are crucial in managing complex cancer therapies, enhancing patient care and clinic efficiency through diverse roles in therapeutic clinics and clinical trials. Pharmacists face ...

Assertiveness -- a communication style that involves frank self-expression while respecting others -- is considered a teachable skill and has been regarded as useful in improving the safety of medical ...