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…
His emergency department cut his shifts by 40 percent and he had kids heading to college, so he took telemedicine work to cover the gap. He ended up licensed in every state and happier than he has ever been. Suneer Chander, an emergency physician who now trains doctors moving into…
Training drone operators is expensive, and losing them hurts. The real cost of attrition in modern warfare training. #MilitaryTraining #DroneWarfare #Attrition #Defense
A process server rang Jordan Grumet's doorbell at 8 p.m. while he watched TV with his kids. The case had almost nothing to do with him. Grumet, an internal medicine physician who wrote The Healthcare Heist, spent five years in it before the lawyer admitted he had only been leverage.…
June Garen spent her career as a nurse, and now she watches her son work emergency medicine and her daughter work as a social worker in the ER. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Emergency room workers and their families will recognize this worry. #Shorts #Nurses…
Most stories about doctors leaving medicine start with burnout. This one does not. Samantha Nazareth was a fulfilled gastroenterologist with a thriving solo practice in Manhattan when her mother died and she started asking whether medicine could be all of her. She booked a six-week sabbatical. Three and a half…
Gus W. Krucke, an internal and emergency medicine physician, says patients look to a doctor the way they look to no one else. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone working on bedside manner or the doctor patient relationship should hear what a visit leaves behind.…
You paid for the leaky gut panel, the numbers came back abnormal, and you still feel the same. Shiv K. Goel, an internal medicine and functional medicine physician, explains why no single marker can tell you what is wrong with your gut, what the tests are actually good for, and…
Franklyn R. Gergits, DO, an otolaryngologist with about 30 years in practice, sees sinus imaging and sinus symptoms point in opposite directions. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify If your chronic sinus infection symptoms do not match your sinus CT scan, this is that gap. #Shorts…
Before radiofrequency ablation, patients hear about the nerve that gets burned. They are rarely told that the same nerve runs the muscle that holds the spine steady. Francisco M. Torres, an interventional physiatrist who treats spine pain, is not against the procedure. He is against doing it to a 25-year-old…
Safe staffing is a policy problem, and the people it's about are not in the conversation. Carleigh Beriont wants federal action so nurses can organize, unionize, and get safe staffing. She says this doesn't land only on nurses, it lands on patients and on nurses' families too. Her last sentence…
Internal and emergency medicine physician Gus W. Krucke says medicine changed over decades and physicians are grieving that change. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone researching physician burnout in health care should hear what he says the word leaves out. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #PhysicianGrief
For four years, her pain was called fibromyalgia and depression. It was two autoimmune diseases, one of them narrowing her aorta to a few millimeters. Victoria Rundus, a pediatrician in middle Tennessee, spent those years feeling unheard and disbelieved, until one emergency physician put a stethoscope on her abdomen and…
Otolaryngologist Franklyn R. Gergits asks primary care colleagues for a two-second pause: be sure it's bacterial, or send the patient for a second opinion. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone managing recurrent sinus infections or weighing another antibiotic course needs this first. #Shorts #Antibiotics #AntibioticStewardship
Horrified by silence. Grateful for voices like June's. These incidents aren't 'part of the job' for those caring for our most vulnerable. Their stories deserve a platform. 🩺 Search “The Podcast by KevinMD” on Apple or Spotify. #CaregiverStories #VulnerableCommunity #HealthcareHeroes #SpeakOut
A pediatrician went on a podcast, then found her own expertise inside a stranger's AI. Sonal Patel, who runs a home health clinic for families in the first months after birth, built her own tool instead. She explains how it happened, why she thinks physicians are the last group who…
Internal and emergency medicine physician Gus W. Krucke says doctors come to every patient as human beings, not computers with obvious answers. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify The full episode connects physician burnout, malpractice fear, and medical decisions made under pressure. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #DoctorsAreHuman
Your patient is not going to bring up pain, dryness, or lost intimacy on her own. Medicine spent decades teaching women that those topics were off limits, so the exam room stays quiet. Michael Reed, an OB/GYN whose practice is built around women's sexual health, says one question opens all…
Otolaryngologist Franklyn R. Gergits shows the workup he runs when sinus infections keep returning, endoscope-guided specimen to PCR results. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify If recurrent sinus infections keep outlasting antibiotics, this is the testing to ask about. #Shorts #SinusInfection #Sinusitis