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.
Female doctor holding newborn in incubator - stock photo
What Is a Neonatologist?
A female speech pathologist is teaching a child patient
What Is a Speech Pathologist?
Osteopathic physician meets with older patient for primary care
What Is Osteopathic Medicine?
A doctor and patient talk in a hospital.
Steps to Take If a Medical Provider Insults You
Woman talking to doctor in office
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
Differences Between Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary Care
Happy male surgeon looking away in clinic
Osteopathic Doctor vs. Doctor of Medicine
Smiling physician and patient
What Is Medical Board Certification?
Man talking with wife and doctor in examination room
What Is Concierge Medicine?
Nurse standing with group of medical professionals
What Is a Nurse Practitioner?
Shy patient waiting in hospital
How Patient Modesty Affects Medical Care
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
Person holding colorful pills
The Research and Ethical Implications of Placebo Prescriptions
Close up of box with medicine
How to Find an Online Pharmacy You Can Trust
Doctors and nurses reviewing medical chart in hospital
The Differences Between Attending and Resident Physicians
Young boy laying on horse's back surrounded by three equine therapists.
Equine Therapy: Working with Therapists Who Use Horses
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?
Female doctor and nurse with pill bottles and files in 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
Nurse drawing blood from man's arm
What Is a Phlebotomist and What Do They Do?
Doctor and patient in the office
How Narrative Medicine Might Benefit You
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
What Is an Ophthalmologist and What Do They Do?
Dentist and patient in dental office
Dental Hygienist: Expertise, Specialties, and Training
Anesthesiologist adjusting anesthesia machine
What Is an Anesthesiologist and How Do You Become One?
Female doctor looking at laptop screen while preparing report at desk in clinic
What Is a Physician?
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?
Neurosurgeon Performing Surgery
What Does a Neurosurgeon Do?
Woman typing on mri monitor keyboard
Clinical and Non-Clinical Jobs: Differences and Examples
Learn how to become an orthopedic surgeon.
What Is an Orthopedic Surgeon?
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
20 Highest Paying Physician Specialties
Place Setting and Plate, Pie Chart, Healthy
What Does a Nutritionist Do?
Most common types of physician specialists
Common Types of Doctors and What They Do
Closeup of autoradiograph used in researching genetics
Overview of Genetics Counselor Career
Portrait of traditional Chinese physician
Difference Between a Naturopath and Naturopathic Doctor
Integrative medicine professional and patient
Types of Integrative Medicine
Ayurvedic warming spices
Ayurveda: The Facts
table with many homeopathic remedies in bowls
What You Need to Know About Homeopathic Medicine
Radiologist examine images
What Is a Radiologist?