There are several places you can go for medical care. Use this guide to help you choose the right one for your health situation.

Walk into any emergency department on a Tuesday afternoon and you'll notice a pattern. It's rarely the dramatic, obvious injuries that cause the most regret. It's the symptoms people talked themselves ...

When researchers divided out-of-hours general practitioners (GPs) into four groups based on how often they admit their patients to the hospital, they found that if you are seen by a doctor who belongs ...

HBO's emergency-department drama "The Pitt" has become a smash hit in large part because it shows the deeply human toll that emergency medicine exacts on those who practice it. While researchers have ...

While much of the health care workforce is battling staff shortages, the emergency medicine field is trying to figure out how to manage a potential oversupply of physicians. The American College of ...

EKALAKA, Mont. — There was no doctor on-site when a patient arrived in early June at the emergency room in the small hospital at the intersection of two dirt roads in this town of 400 residents. There ...

Older patients rarely arrive with a single ailment. Most contend with chronic conditions and need a variety of tests and assessments.