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The future for physicians is changing rapidly. The rise of new technologies, such as telemedicine and artificial intelligence, is challenging traditional roles. Physicians are embracing these new technologies to improve the quality of care, to collaborate with other healthcare professionals, and to communicate effectively with patients. Read the latest here.

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First Opinion Muthu Alagappan, Rishi Khakhkhar, and Ben Kornitzer

STAT Plus: It’s time for a new medical specialty in asynchronous care

First Opinion Barron H. Lerner

The fraught history of the pelvic exam

Exclusive Lev Facher and Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Lawmakers push to let telehealth providers keep prescribing stimulants and addiction treatment

First Opinion Frances Quee

I’m a pediatrician. My bosses want me to cut new-patient visit times in half

First Opinion Kiran Kumbhar

What the doctors’ protests in India are missing

First Opinion Lindsey Ulin

Why so many patients are confused about CPR and do-not-resuscitate orders

Business Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: HCA and UnitedHealth resolve contract disputes in four states hours before deadline

Morning Rounds Theresa Gaffney

Our investigation of UnitedHealth, explainer on Oropouche and news on maternal health

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A STAT Investigation Lizzy Lawrence, Casey Ross, Bob Herman, and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: UnitedHealth pledged a hands-off approach after buying a Connecticut medical group. Then it upended how doctors practice

First Opinion Evan Selinger and Thomas Carroll

Can AI help ease medicine’s empathy problem?

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A STAT Investigation Casey Ross, Lizzy Lawrence, Bob Herman, and Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Health Care's Colossus: How UnitedHealth turned a questionable artery-screening program into a gold mine

First Opinion Abraham Nussbaum

How the restaurant drama ‘The Bear’ mirrors working in a hospital

Health Alia Sajani

The infectious disease doctor shortage will hit marginalized people the hardest

First Opinion Henry Bair

Cost counseling and stewardship need to be part of medical school curricula

Health Care Helena Getahun-Hawkins — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Do medical errors creep up at hospitals when interns arrive? Yes, but the ‘July effect’ is minimal.

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: The state pharma’s targeting this election cycle

First Opinion Jerry H. Gurwitz

An aging geriatrician wonders: Who will care for me?

First Opinion Madeline Cohen, Sarah O'Connor, and Nicole Huberfeld

OB-GYN board certification shouldn’t require traveling to Texas, a state hostile to abortion and abortion providers

Biotech Allison DeAngelis

STAT Plus: Cardiovascular startup raises $260 million led by ex-Moderna execs’ new VC fund

Health Annalisa Merelli

Addressing the “postpartum cliff” may be as simple as sending a few text messages

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

STAT Plus: Medicare pay proposals are good news for health tech, bad news for docs

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: The effort to reform physician pay is set to pit primary care docs against highly paid specialists

First Opinion Richard A. "Red" Lawhern

Doctors ‘overprescribing’ opioids isn’t the cause of the overdose epidemic — and it never was

Health Annalisa Merelli

Free medical school tuition unlikely to have a major impact on the U.S. health care system

Exclusive Nicholas Florko and J. Emory Parker

STAT Plus: AbbVie dramatically outspent its pharma company rivals in 2023 to promote its drugs to doctors

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Q&A: The U.S. is losing control of hypertension. China’s ‘village doctors’ have lessons

First Opinion Richard G. Frank

Psychiatrists aren’t fulfilling the social contract that subsidized their training

Health Alia Sajani

Can screening for food insecurity make a difference for patients? The jury is out

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