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Pressed to fill every bed, hospitals are unabashedly poaching star doctors—who bring prestige as well as patients—from competing institutions.

The rise of low-invasion techniques—and the doctors who specialize in them—has made the competition for surgical patients, well, cutthroat.

Hospitals used to enjoy unfettered access to your medical records, but no more—a situation that’s sending fund-raisers to the emergency room.

Planning for the brave new world of managed care, medical schools began turning out more generalists than specialists—a big miscalculation if you’re currently in need of an anesthesiologist.

A new breed of M.D. tends exclusively to hospital in-patients, keeping costs down while allowing primary-care physicians to stay in the office. But not all doctors are grateful for the help.

A new breed of M.D. tends exclusively to hospital in-patients, keeping costs down while allowing primary-care physicians to stay in the office. But not all doctors are grateful for the help.

These days, more than a few patients demanding first-rate care are doing the reverse commute as suburban hospitals beef up their staffs with medical stars—and offer valet parking.

One doctor uses the price of a slice to set his fees, but for most in the growing fee-for-service world, setting the cost of a visit is a weird alchemy of patient demand, experience, and real estate.

Even in a city with some of the world's best hospitals, medical mistakes occur, some of them tragic. But there are common-sense ways to minimize your risk.

The winsome new Children's Hospital at Montefiore is attracting top doctors as well as sick kids from all over -- and making many Manhattanites wonder: Where's ours?