Recently, researchers found that half of all patients surveyed prefer their doctors to wear traditional attire, such as a white coat, and this influenced an increasingly important measure: patient ...

Dear Doctors: What is the latest understanding, from a medical standpoint, about the safety of tattoos? I read about someone with a tattoo who received burns on his chest during an MRI. I also heard ...

An unconscious patient's "Do Not Resuscitate" tattoo on his chest posed quite a dilemma for doctors at the University of Miami recently. Doctors discovered the tattoo, which appeared to include the ...

A 70-year-old man who had a "Do Not Resuscitate" tattoo on his chest recently caused a conundrum for doctors in Florida.The individual arrived at an emergency department with no identification or ...

What’s on your pregnancy checklist? We're going to guess it looks a little something like this: Take a prenatal vitamin, schedule your ultrasound visit, buy a car seat, avoid telling people the name ...

Emergency room doctors at a University of Miami hospital faced a vexing ethical dilemma when paramedics wheeled in an unconscious man with a “Do Not Resuscitate” chest tattoo. The case is described in ...

Doctors in Scotland believe a woman’s large tattoo on her leg may have been the cause of her unexplained inflammation and severe leg pain. The authors of a report on the woman’s case, published in BMJ ...

Doctors in Miami faced an unusual ethical dilemma when an unconscious, deteriorating patient was brought into the emergency room with the words "Do Not Resuscitate" across his chest. The 70-year-old ...

A 70-year-old man who had a "Do Not Resuscitate" tattoo on his chest recently caused a conundrum for doctors in Florida.The individual arrived at an emergency department with no identification or ...