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According to a judge's ruling, the doctor perforated the abdominal muscles of the patient during a liposuction procedure, causing damage to her liver, stomach, small intestine, pancreas, veins and arteries.

In Rhode Island, safety-net clinics are under new pressures as clinicians retire or burn out. Patients report that it's harder to find care, and they're losing connections to familiar doctors.

New startups believe chatbot technology could help reduce the burden on physicians. But some academics warn bias and errors could hurt patients.

Some doctors in Texas are so worried about the abortion bans, they hint to patients with pregnancy complications, "I've heard traveling to Colorado is really nice this time of year."

Dr. Gail Dudley, a retired osteopathic doctor in Hillsborough County: "We have a history of discrimination, which we can change, but not if we sugarcoat it and cover it up."

All graduates of the nurse anesthesiologist program at Florida Gulf Coast University will have doctorates for the first time.

Despite a consensus that patients should be able to get mental health care from primary care doctors, insurance policies and financial incentives may not support that.

The Association of American Medical Colleges plans to roll out new diversity, equity, and inclusion standards aimed at teaching doctors, among other things, how to treat patients who are overweight with respect.

Growing up in a family of casino workers in Nevada, Samantha Marazita said she never pictured herself as the type to go to med school. Now she is being awarded her MD, as part of the inaugural class of Nova Southeastern's of Allopathic Medicine.

The state says Joseph Dorn did not conduct a physical exam of two patients and employed a "trick or scheme." The judge recommends dismissing the complaint.