Patients are dying by suicide in every state, and a patient advocate says the reason traces straight back to money in politics. Richard Lawhern, who has spent three decades fighting for people in chronic pain, follows the dollars from dark-money donors to lobbyists to the laws that leave doctors and…
Internal medicine physician Lisa Rubiano explains why physician burnout comes from broken systems, not a lack of resilience. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Doctors who feel burned out need to hear why rounding faster was never going to fix a system designed to burn clinicians…
Billions of health care dollars get allocated by people who have never treated a patient, and physicians are barely 0.1 percent of that decision. Harsha Moole, an internal medicine physician who built a 200-doctor venture fund, argues your clinical instinct is the most undervalued asset in the room. He breaks…
Jess Bunin, an intensivist and co-founder of All Levels Leadership, on the empathy breach that breaks trust during a crisis and the one question good leaders ask afterward. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any leader rebuilding team trust after layoffs or a workplace crisis needs…
Most doctors think burnout comes from caring too much. It doesn't. It comes from caring the wrong way. Executive coach Eva Minkoff, who has navigated the health care system as a chronic patient for decades, and physician advocate Kim Downey break down a five-second shift that lets clinicians stay present…
Palliative care physician and physician coach Christie Mulholland on the specific pain physicians carry when the system blocks the care they feel called to provide. The gap between calling and what medicine allows is where physician burnout actually lives. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify #Shorts…
When a professor caught her medical students using AI on their reflections, she did not call them lazy. She called them in. Kathleen Muldoon, a professor and medical educator, argues that students reaching for AI is a rational decision inside an irrational system, one that rewards performance over reflection. The…
Intensivist Jess Bunin and rheumatologist George Mount on the small acts of active listening that built trust on health care teams during COVID. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone leading a team through uncertainty can use this before their next one-on-one. #Shorts #LeadershipSkills #BuildingTrust
Your doctor says methylene blue plus an SSRI means serotonin syndrome. A 45-year physician says that warning comes from high-dose surgical cases, not the low oral doses he actually uses. Steven Warren, a longevity medicine physician who spent 25 years running nursing homes and geriatric psychiatry, dug into all 51…
Christie Mulholland, a palliative care physician and physician development coach, explains when a career pause beats pushing through burnout. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any physician weighing a sabbatical or career break needs to hear where the pause point actually is. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #CareerPause
Men are sold testosterone for low energy and low sex drive on billboards everywhere, and almost none of them know it can silently erase their entire sperm count. Reproductive endocrinologist Erica Bove sees a couple roughly once a week where no one realized the husband's "Low T" treatment was the…
Christie Mulholland, a palliative care physician and certified physician development coach, explains how the right question lowers physician burnout. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Doctors stuck in burnout and low career satisfaction often need a better question, not a lighter schedule. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #PhysicianCoach
Your ER doctor has 15 minutes to build your whole medical story, and most of the time they cannot see records from your other doctors at all. Emergency physician and physician executive Hamed Husaini explains why the problem was never too little data, it was data scattered across systems that…
Lianne Mandelbaum explains how the March 2026 DOT food allergy ruling built a hierarchy inside one medical condition, granting pre-boarding to peanut and tree nut allergies while leaving sesame, milk, egg, shellfish, and wheat allergies without the same airline protection. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify…
Palliative care physician Christie Mulholland on the smallest leadership move against physician burnout, modeling work-life balance so younger doctors actually take their time off. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any physician in a leadership role who wants to fight burnout on their team can start…
Most physicians stay in jobs they could afford to leave, settling for unhappiness over uncertainty because two weeks without a paycheck feels unthinkable. Stanley Liu, a cardiologist and fiduciary financial planner, argues the fix is not getting richer, it is building enough financial capacity that your worst-case scenario becomes acceptable.…
Food-allergy advocate Lianne Mandelbaum explains why pre-boarding to wipe down a seat protects allergic passengers, and what came off her wipes when she did it. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone with a food allergy who flies needs to see what airplane cabin cleaning actually…
Dr. Kenneth Ro explains why a morning walk does more for your blood flow than a hard gym session. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone trying to improve circulation or blood flow should start the day walking to raise nitric oxide before anything else. #Shorts…
It is not your fault. If you are a physician who burned out and spent months hunting for what you did wrong, this conversation reframes everything. Lisa Rubiano, an internal medicine physician and physician coach who left hospital medicine after burning out in 2021, argues that resilience was never the…
Food allergy advocate Lianne Mandelbaum explains why a closing throat is not an inconvenience but a potential anaphylaxis emergency, and why physicians need to hear it. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone managing a peanut allergy, sesame allergy, or food allergy anxiety on a flight…
ER and internal medicine physician Kenneth Ro explains why microvascular decline, not mitochondria, sits upstream of diabetes and aging. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone tracking longevity, insulin resistance, or diabetic complications needs to understand capillary health before the next lab panel. #Shorts #Diabetes #MicrovascularDisease
A three-time cancer survivor remembers exactly which doctors she trusted, and it came down to small things: one held her foot before leaving the room. Jess Bunin, an intensivist, and George Mount, a rheumatologist, who together founded a leadership group, break down why trust is the fragile core of both…
Lianne Mandelbaum describes watching her son lose the light in his eyes during a peanut allergy reaction on a flight, and why she wants epinephrine stocked on every commercial plane. Anyone flying with a food allergy needs this conversation. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify A…
AI in medicine stopped being just a privacy question the moment a changed pixel could flip a diagnosis. Francisco M. Torres, an interventional physiatrist, and Purab Patel, a medical student who used to write code, break down where these models actually break, why a hospital death is already part of…