A 69-year-old family physician describes his unsedated colonoscopy and gives a pain map at each anatomic landmark of the colon. Mike Neskovic has practiced family and geriatric medicine for 33 years. He took the Hippocratic Oath in 1977 and has run 31 Los Angeles marathons. For his first colonoscopy in…
He said no to one routine x-ray and the cleaning was canceled on the spot, framed as a licensure risk that turned out not to exist. Aaron Rosenberg, a patient advocate who has worked across clinical practice, health systems, and insurance, walks through the dental visit that made him write…
Physician imposter syndrome is treated as a personal failing. Pediatrician Jessie Mahoney, MD argues it is a system feature, and women in medicine are caught hardest in the trap. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD #PhysicianBurnout #WomenInMedicine #ImposterSyndrome #Shorts
Amna Shabbir, MD, traces her physician burnout to the year she was born, when her mother was an OB/GYN intern. She picked primary care to avoid her mother's life and burnt out in four months. A conversation about inherited burnout, women in medicine, and physician moms. Search "The Podcast by…
A pediatrician added up the unpaid hours she had donated to teaching and got a number that should disturb every physician: over 2,000. That is more than a full year of unpaid work, sitting on top of clinic, leadership, and raising three kids. Jessie Mahoney, a pediatrician and physician coach,…
Same hospital. Same training. Same hours. Same patients. Female emergency physicians earn $21,000 less per year than male colleagues. Here is why. Jake Horowitz, co-founder of Off Call, and emergency physician Resa E. Lewiss break down the full gender pay gap in emergency medicine: $17 less per hour, $28K mid-career,…
Why do patients regain weight after stopping GLP-1 medications? Obesity medicine physician Jessica Duncan, MD, explains the overlooked flaw in the GLP-1 weight regain studies and how she structures post-medication care to prevent it. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD #GLP1 #ObesityMedicine…
ENT physician Frances Mei Harden on why physician wellness advice fails surgical residents, and the DBT distress tolerance skills that actually work inside the operating room. Harden trained at a malignant ENT residency and spent her chief year learning the dialectical behavioral therapy framework she wishes she had as an…
You know the feeling. The note is signed, the visit is billed, the AVS is sent, and something still nags at you on the drive home. Retired surgeon and patient advocate Alan Feren has a name for it: unfinishedness. It is the gap between administrative closure and clinical closure, and…
Younger doctors aren't lazy. The system changed underneath them. Palliative care physician Christie Mulholland explains why physician boundary-setting is a rational response to administrative burden, prior auth, and corporatized workflow eating the rewarding part of the job. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts for the full…
Neurologist Carolyn Larkin Taylor was told her postmenopausal bleeding was "just stress." A second opinion caught endometrial cancer. Why medical gaslighting is rarely malicious. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD #medicalgaslighting #womenshealth #Shorts
Two medical students noticed mid-clerkship that the mental habits they had built over thousands of chess games were showing up in how they saw patients. Jay Pendyala and Jonathan Berg, both third-year medical students and co-founders of their school's chess club, break down the specific transfers, from pattern recognition to…
Robert Wachter, MD, chair of medicine at UCSF and author of A Giant Leap, explains why physician job replacement is not the real threat to medicine. On clinical AI, physician autonomy, and decision support. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD #medicine #healthcareAI…
ER physician Kenneth Ro on the shame armor physicians build in training, why imposter syndrome is actually a sign of humility, and what dying patients taught him. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD #PhysicianBurnout #EmergencyMedicine #MedicalTraining #Shorts
Robert Wachter wrote the definitive grumpy book about how electronic records failed medicine. Now he's back with an optimistic one about AI. Wachter, who chairs the Department of Medicine at UCSF, walks through what's changing on rounds, in med schools, in primary care, and for patients bypassing doctors. He calls…
Ashna Shome, a pediatrics resident in the Bronx who lives with cerebral palsy, explains why anti-vax rhetoric functions as ableism and connects it to federal cuts to Medicaid, WIC, and disability access already reshaping clinical care. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD…
Most women over 50 assume cervical cancer is behind them. It isn't. HPV can sit dormant in the body for decades and surface as cancer long after menopause, but screening rates drop 24 percent once women transition through menopause. Nenrot S. Gopep, a physician and public health researcher who studies…
Dr. Michael F. Myers, professor of clinical psychiatry, explains why doctors delay or avoid treatment for depression, and what changes when they finally go public about physician mental health. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD #PhysicianMentalHealth #Medicine #Shorts
Psychiatrist Devina Wadhwa describes the death threat, the rearview mirror, and the culture of silence around workplace violence in medicine. Every clinician she knows has been abused on the job. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD #Medicine #WorkplaceViolence #PhysicianBurnout #Shorts
Nurse practitioner Bettina Reed explains the one thing she wishes every patient understood about how denials actually happen and whose side their clinician is really on. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify A nurse practitioner on insurance denials, prior authorization, and how patients can tell when…
Your colleagues don't have to explain to every new attending why they need a chair. They don't have to disclose a medical history just to get through a shift. And when federal agencies start proposing rollbacks on accessibility in the buildings you work and treat patients in, the message lands…
Dr. Noemi Adame, a board-certified pediatrician, breaks down why female physicians face higher burnout rates despite delivering better patient outcomes, including the data on inbox workload and physician longevity. She also walks through the FAST framework she uses to hold boundaries in medicine. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you…
Paula Muto, vascular surgeon and founder of UBERDOC, explains how ACA subsidies grew from 180 dollars to 3,500 dollars and why premiums rose with them. The conversation covers healthcare policy, direct primary care, health savings accounts, and why fund-the-patient reform is gaining traction in Washington. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD"…
Nurse practitioner Bettina Reed describes what it actually feels like in the exam room to justify every medication and test to an insurance reviewer. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify An honest look at prior authorization, insurance denials, and clinician burnout in primary care. #Shorts