Pediatric anesthesiologist Rita Agarwal explains what federal Medicaid cuts mean for hospitals that already answer to one insurance company. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify If your family relies on a children's hospital or a rural hospital, she says patients end up stuck in the middle.…
A patient says her hip has hurt for a while. One doctor says "I can see this is really bothering you." The other asks when it started, whether it radiates, and what it is stopping her from doing. Alan P. Feren, a retired surgeon and patient advocate, says only one…
Branding expert Ashley Gay explains why a logo is just an identifying mark and can't communicate everything you do. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Building a small business or medical practice brand? Know what your logo can and can't carry. #Shorts #Branding #LogoVsBrand
A patient came in with weight gain nobody could explain, and every test came back clean. Shiv K. Goel, an internal medicine and functional medicine physician in San Antonio, went looking at what had changed in her life instead of ordering more labs. What he found was a husband's shift…
Pediatric anesthesiologist Rita Agarwal says insurance CEOs make millions while patients pay more for less care and doctors are reimbursed less for the same work. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify If your health insurance costs keep going up, she says insurers have to change. #Shorts…
Branding expert Ashley Gay explains how choosing a doctor has changed since COVID, and why so much of it now comes down to what patients see. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Comparing doctors online or running a medical practice? This is what people weigh. #Shorts…
Pediatrician and physician career coach Gita Balakumar on why doctors who feel they have to put patients first find self-compassion hard to accept. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Clinicians who put patients first still need self-compassion to stay healthy enough to care for others. #Shorts…
A doctor opened an airplane emergency kit and found a sticker where the epinephrine should have been. Lianne Mandelbaum, who has spent a decade collecting accounts like that one, explains what a proposed federal rule would change: the required medication list becomes a suggestion, each airline decides for itself, and…
The electronic health record turned doctors into data entry clerks, and now health systems are buying AI tools one at a time. Seema Verma, who ran Medicare and Medicaid as CMS administrator, lays out what AI has to prove before a physician should trust it: what it was trained on,…
Many physicians feel trapped in jobs they dread and can't easily leave. One eye surgeon found an exit he says rarely comes up in the burnout debate. Oren Fass, an ophthalmologist and cataract surgeon who sold his practice to private equity, built a solo practice where AI agents handle faxes,…
Anesthesiologist Jim Ellwood explains set and setting for ketamine: going in with the right mindset and being somewhere you feel safe. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone considering ketamine therapy or a ketamine clinic should understand both halves before the first session. #Shorts #KetamineTherapy #SetAndSetting
Emergency physician Suneer Chander names the red flags in a telemedicine company, starting with a non-doctor telling you what to prescribe. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Physicians weighing a telemedicine job or remote clinical work should check who is leading the team before signing. #Shorts…
Medicine is not one person's profession. When a transplant surgeon is in the operating room, his kids are on the other end of a FaceTime call he cannot answer. Alyssa Kressel, a strategic communications professional married to that surgeon, describes 15 years of training from the family's side: the support…
Pediatrician and physician coach Gita Balakumar describes the burnout where the doctor is still working and still not well. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Physician burnout and exhaustion rarely stop a doctor from working, and she names where healthy actually ends. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #BurnoutSigns
Driving home after a long shift, a doctor kept seeing a man standing by the road. A second look, and it was a road sign. Chinelle Miller, an oncologist in Jamaica who also writes and makes films, asked herself whether she was losing her mind, then went looking for the…
Jim Ellwood is an anesthesiologist who took ketamine for his own depression and describes a first session that felt strange. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify This is what early ketamine therapy for depression can feel like before the mood shifts. #Shorts #Depression #KetamineTherapy
Your surgeon may have finished training with less time in the operating room than surgeons once had. Danny Goel, an orthopedic surgeon in Vancouver, says the apprenticeship model never changed while duty hours, efficiency pressure, and outpatient surgery reshaped everything around it. He explains why case counts and exams can't…
Emergency physician Suneer Chander says telemedicine needs doctors who are committed to leading it, and extra income on the weekends won't get patients there. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Worth hearing before you take a telemedicine job or add remote physician work to your schedule.…
She loved her job and called it a fantastic career, and she still walked away after 20 years. Christine King, a nurse anesthetist, explains what changed: insurance deciding which procedures happen, threats from surgeons and coworkers that people hesitate to report, and stress she felt in her body until she…
Pediatrician and physician coach Gita Balakumar explains why burnout, inside health care organizations, can sound like the doctor couldn't hack it. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any physician facing burnout in the business of medicine should hear who she says the burden belongs to. #Shorts…
If you have ever pictured yourself practicing until they take you away in a hearse, this conversation is for you. Andrea Hayes, a retired endocrinologist, spent 30 years in practice and lived through two stays on a ventilator, an office manager who stole a quarter of a million dollars, and…
Anesthesiologist Jim Ellwood says the ketamine backlash after the Matthew Perry story is how psychedelics got into trouble too. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify If horse drug jokes and overdose headlines have you second-guessing ketamine therapy for depression, hear him out. #Shorts #Depression #Ketamine
A pediatrician gave a vaccine her chart said was due. The record existed, buried in a corner of Epic nobody thought to check, and the health system moved to put her on a corrective action plan for it. Health law attorney Dennis Hursh, who reviews physician employment agreements, explains why…
Suneer Chander, MD, on how a psychiatrist in his program turned national licensure and unpaid expertise into fractional medical director roles. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any physician weighing full time telemedicine against hospital shifts should hear where this path ended. #Shorts #Telemedicine #PhysicianCareers