Twenty years of caring for critically ill children, and one interviewer answers with six words that reduce all of it to zero. Shveta Gupta, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist who moved into physician executive work, calls that moment the false zero. She explains why doctors leaving clinical roles are not unqualified, only…
As a patient, OB/GYN Michael Reed was finally asked about intimacy, and he says women are living with the same unasked need. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Women's health has not built the infrastructure to ask about intimacy and act on the answer, he argues.…
In value-based care, your individual decisions stop being invisible. Jeanne Cohen, who runs a health care analytics company that scores clinical decisions against the evidence, explains why the model has not delivered and what happens once payers can see which clinicians overuse imaging, underuse prevention, and drift from the guidelines.…
Gastroenterologist Samantha Nazareth was sold the same bargain everyone is, that life starts at retirement. Her mother never got there. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone postponing travel or rest until retirement should hear how fast that plan can stop making sense. #Shorts #Retirement #RetirementRegret
Patients decide about your practice long before they meet you. They judge the logo, the website, whether they can schedule online, and the person who answers the phone. Ashley Gay, a branding expert who helped launch her husband's private practice, explains what a brand actually is, where to put the…
Internal medicine physician Jordan Grumet says doctors finish medical school with PTSD before any malpractice suit arrives. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Physician burnout and medical student depression usually get framed as personal problems, and he puts them on the training. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #MedSchool
Patients are walking in with fiber advice from TikTok, chasing as many grams as fast as they can, and paying for it with bloating, gas, and worse. Lisa Talamini, a registered dietitian who oversees clinical programs at a weight management company, explains what fiber maxing gets wrong, why hydration decides…
Orthopedic surgeon Cory Calendine explains how YouTube certifies licensed providers and why he thinks it helps patients. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone taking medical advice from YouTube should know whether the person on screen is a licensed provider. #Shorts #HealthMisinformation #YouTubeHealth
He made the appointment, showed up, and told the truth. I think I'm struggling with addiction, he said. The doctor said it was not something they could help with, and he later died of that untreated illness. Devika Bhushan, a public health physician and former acting surgeon general of California,…
Family medicine and sports medicine physician Ann Lebeck explains why she came to see soldiers as tactical athletes. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone working in military medicine or a physically demanding job needs this framing of load, recovery, and injury prevention. #Shorts #SportsMedicine #TacticalAthlete
Anesthesiology is one of the hardest residencies to match into, and anesthesiologists now top the list of doctors who intend to leave their jobs. Rita Agarwal, a pediatric anesthesiologist at Stanford, traces that contradiction to insurance consolidation and federal funding cuts, and makes the case that the squeeze reaches patients…
Najat Fadlalla points to studies from East Asia and West Asia where authoritarian parenting is not associated with negative outcomes. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Clinicians who counsel families on parenting styles should know which populations that outcome research came from. #Shorts #Parenting #AuthoritarianParenting
Orthopedic surgeon Cory Calendine explains why false hope is dangerous and why realistic expectations are the surgeon's job. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone facing orthopedic surgery needs honest recovery expectations from the start, not reassurance. #Shorts #SurgeryRecovery #PatientExpectations
Nine medications, multiple therapists, and a drug-resistant depression that ran through most of his adult life. Then Jim Ellwood, an anesthesiologist who spent a career giving ketamine as an anesthetic, tried it on himself. He explains what the Matthew Perry headlines distorted, how the drug works in the brain, and…
Your surgery went fine. Your specialists all did their jobs. And still, no one was actually in charge. Alan P. Feren, a retired surgeon and patient advocate, explains why coordination of care is not the same thing as clinical direction, what happens to patients left to connect the dots themselves,…
Sports medicine physician Ann Lebeck built her military clinic around one idea, that soldiers are athletes and most have never been told so. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Military sports medicine and tactical athlete care start with what the patient believes they are. #Shorts #SportsMedicine…
A resident read a medical student's residency personal statement, told her it was good, then asked why she had not just run it through ChatGPT. Kathleen Muldoon, a certified coach and professor who runs personal statement workshops, says the essay was never the product. The reflection was. And outsourcing it…
Najat Fadlalla, a developmental behavioral pediatrics fellow, keeps a mother's hierarchy, respect, and consequences in the plan and adds to them. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Clinicians giving parent coaching across cultures need parenting advice a family can apply with their own values. #Shorts #Parenting…
Ninety percent of patients in therapy said their depression had improved. So did 90 percent of the patients still sitting on the wait list. Richard A. Lawhern, a patient advocate and health care educator, uses that result to ask a harder question about the diagnoses now being handed to a…
Orthopedic surgeon Cory Calendine gives the order he wants patients to follow before they choose one. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone weighing a knee replacement should be able to describe their own symptoms before searching for an orthopedic surgeon. #Shorts #KneeReplacement #ChoosingASurgeon
Twenty years in, the exhaustion is real, and the system keeps telling doctors it is a personal failing. Gita Balakumar, a pediatrician who now coaches physicians through career change, says that framing is backwards. She explains how the word burnout got quietly co-opted, why self-compassion is a foundation and not…
Ann Lebeck, a family and sports medicine physician, watched soldiers go to sick call for pain and come back worse. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone dealing with military training pain should hear what rest and a profile did to these soldiers. #Shorts #MilitaryFitness #Deconditioning
At 2 a.m., in the middle of a bleeding cardiac case, a junior doctor handed him a printout of test results and asked what to do. Ahmed Elsonbaty, a cardiac anesthesiologist, walked out of that operating room asking a different question: what happens when no senior doctor is in the…
Najat Fadlalla, a developmental behavioral pediatric fellow, names her own bias first, then asks the family why that value matters. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any doctor giving parenting advice can use those two questions before correcting a technique the family chose deliberately. #Shorts #Parenting…