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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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STAT Wunderkinds STAT Staff

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A STAT Documentary Hyacinth Empinado

Treating Rural America: The new country doctors

First Opinion John Whyte and Ranil Herath

How health care organizations can set up chief medical officers for success

Health Care Inc. Bob Herman

The stability of $0 premiums in Medicare Advantage

Insurance Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: New lawsuit highlights another wrinkle for settling disputes over surprise medical bills

Health Annalisa Merelli

Nurses and health care support workers at higher risk of suicide, study finds

Health Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Cancer drug shortages widen disparities between big systems and small

A STAT Documentary Hyacinth Empinado

Treating Rural America: The last doctor in town

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First Opinion Amelia Mercado and J. Wesley Boyd

How medical schools are failing students who need mental health care

First Opinion Tochi Iroku-Malize, Sandy Chung, Verda Hicks, Omar T. Atiq, Ira P. Monka and Petros Levounis

Policymakers must take action on the physician shortage

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D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs

Senate HELP on collision course

Politics Rachel Cohrs

STAT Plus: Bernie Sanders, Bill Cassidy clash over proposal to increase primary care doctors, nurses

Health Grace Rubenstein

They’re immigrants, farmworkers, and new moms. And they’re facing postpartum depression at higher rates

First Opinion Mical Raz and Naftali Kaminski

Doctors in the U.S. can learn a lot about advocacy and activism from their Israeli counterparts

First Opinion Akila Muthukumar Valliammai, Leigh Simmons and Karen Sepucha

The question list is a simple way to help patients prepare for appointments

Health Annalisa Merelli

STAT Plus: A new paper suggests a simple fix to the primary care physician shortage

Health Isabella Cueto

Emotional dry cleaning: A writer helps doctors share their stories — and their pain

First Opinion Simone Bernstein and Jessica Gold

STAT Plus: Psychiatrists like us cannot keep up with their inboxes

Health Theresa Gaffney

What a review of gender-affirming care research by a top pediatrics group actually means

Off the Charts Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

Krystal Cascetta, Lindsay Clancy, and the impossibility of being a mom in American medicine

The Obesity Revolution Simar Bajaj

STAT Plus: Obesity specialists are scarce. Here’s how that’s starting to change

Health Ambar Castillo

How the first Native Hawaiian psychiatrist set a course for diversifying medicine

Health Annalisa Merelli

Medical illustrations neglect people with dark skin. A Nigerian doctor-to-be is working to change that

Health Isabella Cueto

Having celiac disease and a thyroid condition sent her on a quest to become an empathetic doctor

First Opinion Morgan S. Levy, Vineet Arora and Arghavan Salles

Medicine robs physicians of their fertility. Here’s how to fix it

Health Angus Chen

Radiation, a mainstay of cancer treatment, begins a fade-out

Insurance Bob Herman

STAT Plus: After Optum Health’s lowest profit margin in a decade, UnitedHealth makes changes

Hospitals Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Hospitals are dialing back on venture capital investing

Biotech Simar Bajaj, Tara Bannow, Bob Herman and Annalisa Merelli

STAT Plus: Wegovy cardiovascular study has doctors seeing new possibilities in weight loss drug