A young patient died on her psychiatry unit, and what followed was not what she expected. The coroner opened a case. The police arrived to interview her. The debrief was a hallway check-in. Devina Maya Wadhwa, a psychiatrist who writes about physician wellness, walks through the days and weeks after…
Rheumatologist Brian Sayers describes the night on call he found his father's autopsy report on microfilm and realized his dad had died on the same ward he was working. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Physician burnout and the childhood calling that shaped him. #Shorts
Vance Lehman, MD, chief of neuroradiology education at Mayo Clinic, on a hidden curriculum behavior every attending should learn but most never do. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Attendings who ask about trainee goals from day one reshape the entire medical training mentorship dynamic. #Shorts
Your patient lost 30 pounds on a GLP-1 and their A1C dropped. So they're healthier, right? Not necessarily. Richard Fleming, a preventive cardiologist who has spent four decades studying surrogate markers in cardiology, argues that weight loss alone tells you almost nothing about whether the patient is actually getting better,…
Pediatrician and physician coach Jessie Mahoney, MD names the one sentence that turns an institutional expectation back into a visible ask. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone navigating physician burnout, uncompensated work, or volunteer faculty in medicine needs this reframe before the next ask lands.
Primary care doctors deliver 75 percent of all mental health care in this country, and most of us were never trained to do it. Internal medicine physician Robert Smith, author of Has Medicine Lost Its Mind, walks the full 2,500-year arc that explains why: from Hippocrates and bloodletting through the…
A D1 athlete had to push her doctor to test her for celiac. The labs came back through the roof. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone wondering about celiac disease symptoms or asking for a celiac blood test needs this conversation with Kamiah Gibson. #Shorts
The new DOT ruling creates a hierarchy of allergies with no medical basis. Peanut and tree nut allergic passengers can pre-board to clean their seats. Egg, milk, sesame, shellfish, and wheat passengers cannot, even though the same trace exposure can cause anaphylaxis at 35,000 feet. Lianne Mandelbaum, an advocate who…
Psychiatrist Farid Sabet-Sharghi names the exact moment evil takes root, and explains why doctors do not get the luxury of looking away. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Physician burnout, empathy in medicine, and moral integrity at the bedside.
Jessie Mahoney, MD names the fear of judgment that stops physicians from saying no to extra tasks. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone working through physician burnout, toxic workplace dynamics, or learning to set boundaries at work needs this reframe. #Shorts
Kamiah Gibson, a Division I volleyball player at Ohio State, describes how a TikTok video led to her celiac disease diagnosis at 19. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Chronic stomach symptoms in young athletes often point to undiagnosed celiac disease. #Shorts
2 a.m. is when alertness bottoms out, melatonin peaks, and the hospital codes start. After 17 years of night shift, one hospitalist calls it a biological stress test no one is talking about. Chinyelu Oraedu, an academic hospitalist and nocturnist, breaks down what really happens to a doctor's body at…
Psychiatrist Farid Sabet-Sharghi on when staying neutral at work has crossed into silence about workplace racism. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify The conversation every physician and nurse needs before the next ugly incident at the hospital. #Shorts
On Match Day, every envelope looks the same and every smile looks the same, but some of those smiles are hiding a quiet rupture. A student matched, just not where they hoped, and they don't feel allowed to say so. Coach and medical educator Kathleen Muldoon explains why medical training…
Kamiah Gibson, a Division I volleyball player, was sick for months and lost 40 pounds before doctors stopped calling it anxiety. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify If your unexplained weight loss or chronic symptoms keep getting dismissed as anxiety, this is the conversation. #Shorts
Patients are walking into clinics asking for peptides they heard about on Joe Rogan, Huberman, and TikTok, and they trust those sources more than their doctor. Vikas Patel, an emergency medicine physician who also runs a longevity practice, breaks down what the evidence on BPC-157 actually shows, why the trust…
Psychiatrist Farid Sabet-Sharghi describes physicians and nurses who treated patients despite threats, and the colleagues still imprisoned for it. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify The story of doctors jailed and tortured for treating patients is one the global medical community is not allowed to forget.…
You keep putting off the dentist. The appointment moves down the calendar, then off, and you only go when something hurts. Kaushal Shah, a general dentist who runs multiple practices in the Dallas area, says that pattern starts as early as six months old and gets reinforced every time avoidance…
Stephanie Waggel, MD explains how vertical integration in healthcare removes the consumer from the pricing equation entirely. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone confused by rising healthcare prices, hospital consolidation, or why their insurer owns their pharmacy needs the 15 seconds in this clip. #Shorts
Somewhere between the kid who wanted to be a doctor and the physician you are now, something broke. A third of clinicians cannot even remember why they chose medicine, and the gap between the dream and the daily practice is where burnout settles in. Brian Sayers, a rheumatologist who has…
Pediatrician and physician coach Jessie Mahoney on the one question that ends the unpaid labor trap for doctors. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any physician pressured into volunteer committee work, leadership tasks, or admin hours without compensation needs this reframe before saying yes again. #Shorts
You can ace every exam, match into a top program, and still get quietly written off in your first week of a rotation. Vance Lehman, a Mayo Clinic neuroradiology professor who runs education for his department, spent two years researching why some trainees thrive and others stall. He argues the…
Stephanie Waggel, MD, founder of Improve Medical Culture, uses a car industry analogy to explain why vertical integration in health care is dangerous for patients and physicians. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone trying to understand physician burnout, hospital consolidation, or why US health care…
Forget mitochondria. The real driver of aging may be something most physicians never look at: the capillaries. Kenneth Ro, a double board-certified emergency and internal medicine physician, argues that microvascular decline sits upstream of nearly every aging process we treat, from heart failure to diabetic neuropathy to sepsis. He explains…