Your Healthcare Team

Take an active role in your healthcare and learn effective ways to choose and communicate with all members of your healthcare team, including doctors, nurses, and pharmacists.
A doctor and patient talk in a hospital.
Steps to Take If a Medical Provider Insults You
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How to Check a Doctor's Background and Credentials
Woman Writing a Letter
How to File a Complaint About Your Healthcare Provider
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How to Check and Verify a Doctor's Board Certification
Doctor and patient in consultation in clinic
Getting Test Results Quickly by Phone Call or Appointment
Primary, secondary, and tertiary care
Levels of Medical Care: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary
Happy male surgeon looking away in clinic
Osteopathic Doctor vs. Doctor of Medicine
Man talking with wife and doctor in examination room
What Is Concierge Medicine?
Doctor taking notes and sitting with a patient.
How to Check Out a Doctor for Medical Malpractice
Sometimes doctors are just unwilling to spend time with certain patients.
When Your Doctor Fires You or Dismisses Your Concerns
nurse with medical records
How to Change Doctors
Doctor holding medical charts and discussing with a female patient in the hospital
How to Deal With an Arrogant Doctor
patients in a waiting room at doctor's office
Reasons Why You Spend So Long Waiting at the Healthcare Provider's Office
Close up of box with medicine
How to Find an Online Pharmacy You Can Trust
Doctors and nurses reviewing medical chart in hospital
What's the Difference Between an Attending Vs. Resident Physician?
Sample UB-04
How the UB-04 Form Is Used to Bill Insurance Companies
A cardiac perfusionist with a drawing of a heart in a medical setting
What Does a Cardiovascular Perfusionist Do?
Cardiologist listening to unwell senior's man heartbeat with a stethoscope in health clinic
What Is a Cardiologist?
Nurse and human kidney
What Is a Nephrologist?
Doctors with a patient
What Is a Surgeon?
Doctor and nurse standing with baby in doctor's office
What Does a Pediatrician Do?
Woman studying for exam
Nursing Home Administrator Exam
Doctor showing intestine model to patient in office
What Is a Colorectal Surgeon (Proctologist)?
Young female nurse reading medical records.
What Is a Radiation Therapist?
Doctor greeting patient in hospital ward
What Is a Hospitalist?
Scientist examining test tubes in lab
What Is a Medical Technologist?
Pathologist pipetting liquid in test tube
What Does a Pathologist Do?
Examination of a patient's retinal, conjunctiva, cornea, optic nerve, blood vessels, with a slit lamp
Ophthalmologists and What They Do
Doctor and patient with x rays
12 Different Kinds of Nursing Jobs
Doctor writing on clipboard in hospital
What Is a Doctor of Osteopathy?
Doctor using stethoscope on pregnant patients stomach
What is an Obstetrician-Gynecologist?
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Clinical and Non-Clinical Jobs: Differences and Examples
Endocrinologist taking ultrasound
What Is an Endocrinologist and What Do They Do?
Surg Tech. Hard at work saving lives
What Is a Surgical Technologist?
Surgeons analyzing report together in clinic
Who Are the Highest-Paid Doctors?
Nutritionist filling out client's record
What Does a Nutritionist Do?
Most common types of physician specialists
What Are the Different Types of Doctors?
Naturopathic Doctor talking to patient during home visit
Difference Between a Naturopath and Naturopathic Doctor
Integrative medicine professional and patient
Types of Integrative Medicine
Ayurvedic warming spices
Ayurveda: The Facts
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What You Need to Know About Homeopathic Medicine