The creatinine came back normal, the patient went home, everyone called it a recovery. It was not. In this episode, epidemiologist and health care executive John Erbey explains why a normal creatinine after surgery can hide real kidney damage, why lost functional reserve rarely comes back, and why that silent…
Primary care physician Jerina Gani spent 15 years at 22 patients a day before deciding the fix had to come from her. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any doctor stuck in physician burnout or thinking about leaving medicine needs to hear this. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #PrimaryCare
The guilt you feel for taking your own vacation days may not be yours at all. Palliative care physician and certified physician development coach Christie Mulholland breaks down "hidden guilt," an old guilt that often starts in childhood, gets recruited by medicine, and then gets exploited by a system that…
Emergency physician Kenneth Scott Burnham spent 23 years treating patients before one shift ended with him unable to start his car. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any physician quietly pushing through burnout or depression needs to hear what finally made him ask for help. #Shorts…
If you're not in the room, you're on the menu. Physicians ignored insurance, then business executives, then EMRs, and each time woke up to a profession run by people who were not doctors. Augusta Uwah, a hospitalist and physician-AI consultant who has built more than 50 AI tools she uses…
Janet Jokela, former treasurer of the American College of Physicians, traces the term to Medicare's 1965 rollout. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Physicians, nurses, and med students who wince at provider vs physician should hear where the healthcare system picked up the habit. #Shorts #Medicare…
Primary care physician Jerina Gani stopped rushing 20-minute visits and now earns more by resolving problems in a single appointment. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any doctor fighting physician burnout or drowning in packed schedules needs this case for longer primary care appointments. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout…
You are moving a freezer, you feel a twinge in your leg, and days later a nurse is saying the word cancer. What happens next depends on the person in the white coat. Kim Downey, a physical therapist and physician advocate who has survived cancer three times, and Randy McNeely,…
Emergency physician Kenneth Scott Burnham had his explanation ready, and when his doctor asked the first question, everything vanished. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Physician mental health stays invisible until a crisis, and asking for help is a clinical act, not a failing. #Shorts #MentalHealth…
Most people assume pregnancy just happens when they are ready, and the disappointment hits hard when it does not. Fertility specialist and author Yemi Famuyiwa explains what she wishes every couple knew before they ever walk into her office. The egg ages. Infertility is half a male problem. And a…
Emergency physician Matthew Turner explains how the isolated communities around these games spread radicalization to kids. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any parent searching for online safety for kids needs to hear how online radicalization actually spreads inside gaming communities. #Shorts #OnlineSafety #OnlineRadicalization
Every physician knows the joke: the doctor patient is the one who gets every complication. Jessie Mahoney, a pediatrician and physician coach, stopped laughing when she realized how many women in medicine carry chronic illness, early cancers, and pregnancy complications they were all told was just bad luck. She shares…
Janet Jokela, former treasurer of the American College of Physicians, breaks down why physician and provider are not interchangeable and why the difference is an ethics issue. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone working in health care who has been called a provider should hear…
Medicare is funding care that keeps your sickest patients out of the hospital, and most practices are leaving that money on the table. Rachel Yates, a nurse and health care executive who runs a nurse-led care coordination service, breaks down two codes CMS built in 2024 that almost no one…
Janet Jokela, former treasurer of the American College of Physicians, explains what to call doctors, nurses, and care teams instead. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify The physician vs provider debate shapes how doctors and nurses are addressed, and this clip gives the exact words. #Shorts…
You are the only one in the room after midnight, a patient is coding, and everyone is waiting on you to remember the next drug and the next rhythm. Anesthesiologist Michael Peck has run those codes, and he argues cognitive overload during cardiac arrest is not a personal failing but…
Emergency physician Matthew Turner explains how the true crime community radicalizes children as young as eight, the warning signs parents miss, and the resources clinicians can use right now. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any parent whose kid is on Discord, Roblox, or true crime…
Emergency physician Matthew Turner explains how the true crime community radicalizes kids online, why parental controls fail, and the warning signs of online radicalization every parent should know. He names the exact resources clinicians and parents can use right now. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify…
Medical school professor Kathleen Muldoon explains what student AI use reveals about a broken curriculum, not a lazy generation. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone worried about AI in medical education needs this take on the hidden curriculum before blaming students. #Shorts #MedicalEducation #MedStudent
Primary care is quietly collapsing. The share of doctors in primary care just slipped from a third to a quarter, and it tracks almost exactly with the years most doctors became corporate employees stuck on a referral treadmill. Ken Terry, a health care journalist and author of Beyond Medicare for…
After 23 years holding the line in the emergency room, Scott Burnham found himself in the hospital parking lot one night, unable to start his car and unable to go home. Burnham, an emergency physician turned mental health advocate and author of Lifeline, spent his career treating mental health patients…
A doctor reveals how common fertility meds can cause irreversible damage. When conception is a joint venture, misalignment can halt dreams. Understanding all details is crucial. #Fertility #MensHealth #DoctorAdvice #Conception #Medical
Coach and professor Kathleen Muldoon on why medical training itself, not the trainees, is producing burned out doctors and what a humane medical education would actually require. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #MedicalEducation
She was seeing 22 patients a day and slowly disappearing. Then she cut back to three days a week, gave every patient 30 minutes, and started making more money than she did full time. Jerina Gani, a primary care physician of 20 years, spent 15 of them burned out before…