June 17, 2003 — Editor's Note: A consensus statement in the June 18 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, a special theme issue on depression, mandates treatment of depression and ...

Fourteen percent of physicians reported their depression caused them to make errors in patient care they would not normally make, and five percent said these errors could harm patients, according to ...

In nonpsychiatric settings, primary care physicians consider 17% of their patients as “difficult,” particularly those who ...

There is growing concern about the well-being of physicians and the consequences of poor well-being for physicians themselves, their patients, and the broader health care system. Diminished well-being ...

Researchers from Denmark have uncovered strong evidence that depression often appears years before Parkinson’s disease and ...

Primary care physicians often help patients manage other chronic diseases better than depression, based on a New York City-based Weill Cornell Medical College study, according to Kaiser Health News.

(HealthDay News) — More than 1 in 4 doctors-in-training may be depressed, which could put their patients at risk, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a ...

In the span of Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld's career as an anesthesiologist, he's lost three colleagues to suicide, and he's only in his 40s. Those losses weigh heavily on Ehrenfeld, who also serves as the ...

It wasn’t until 1 year postpartum that it dawned on her: Although Bachini treats depression and anxiety professionally, she had been explaining her own symptoms away as side effects of a stressful job ...

Burnout continues to be a significant problem for internal medicine doctors, according to a new study. The research found 10% of internal medicine physicians in the United States reported having the ...

Researchers compared a traditional Chinese medicine, Yueju Pill, with a standard antidepressant and found both reduced ...

At Stanford, a treatment that aims magnetic pulses at the brain is showing results for people with treatment-resistant ...