NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some doctors might improve their bedside manner by honing their creative writing skills, a small study suggests. Sign up here. Yale University researchers found that ...

The first patient I ever wrote about wasn’t actually my patient; as a first-year medical student, that possessive grammatical construct—“my patient”—hadn’t yet entered my consciousness, much less my ...

When we think of doctors writing, we tend to picture illegible prescriptions, not lines of poetry. And yet, increasingly, surgeons and neurologists are producing poems, novels, plays and creative ...

Physicians have explained why their writing on prescription notes is mostly ineligible for readers, clarifying that bad handwriting isn’t peculiar to doctors alone. Though they acknowledged that most ...