Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, patients often had to wait for hours in hospital and doctor's office waiting rooms. After the pandemic quickly mainstreamed telehealth and prescheduling ...

I have spent a lot of time in waiting rooms. Not only because my mum used to be a medical receptionist for a doctor for the first 17 years of my life. She was also disabled, and a single mother, and ...

Patients are getting stuck in the emergency department for days while waiting for a spot in an inpatient ward.

The waiting room is a sanctuary where patients and families balance hope, worry, and self-care during cancer treatment. Volunteers provide support while respecting patients' privacy, acknowledging the ...

There is a kind of waiting in medicine that does not happen in chairs or hallways. It happens in lives, quietly, when the next step is unknown. It is not the waiting room with check-in desks and ...

Waiting takes on several connotations — all of which play a major part of the plot — in Michael Connelly’s excellent “The Waiting,” his sixth novel teaming up his perennial character Harry Bosch and L ...

Across nearly every hospital in the country, an entirely new unit has appeared. It’s one that nobody wanted and nobody knows exactly what to do with, but it’s there. You might call it purgatory, or a ...

“How long till we get to the beach, Mommy?” We were about seven minutes from our driveway the first time Henry asked. He was four years old, and the two of us were headed from our home in the ...