Lisa Rubiano, an internal medicine physician and physician coach, explains the moment she stopped blaming herself for burning out. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone running on empty in medicine needs to hear why physician burnout is a system failure, not a personal one. #Shorts…
A patient walked into a small-town office and a piece of bone fell out of a wound in their foot. The nearest alternative was a 20-mile drive most of these patients can never make. Vascular surgeon Devin Zarkowsky runs a solo practice in Fallbrook, California, and Jason McKittrick, who leads…
Cardiologist and fiduciary financial planner Stanley Liu explains why the real risks in couples financial planning never show up in the numbers. Anyone merging finances with a partner needs to hear what a financial planner actually watches for before the money fights start. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on…
A week in Florida won't fix burnout, you come home to the same job and the same thoughts. So what actually changes a person? Stacy Funt, a radiologist who founded a wellness adventure travel company, argues the real driver is identity. When you stop seeing yourself as the post-op patient…
Jess Bunin, an intensivist and co-founder of All Levels Leadership, explains why physicians are conditioned to never admit uncertainty, and why a critical care fellow was made to practice saying I dont know on rounds. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Why admitting uncertainty actually builds…
One word has crept into medicine and it is quietly stripping doctors of who they are. Janet A. Jokela, former treasurer of the American College of Physicians, makes the case that calling a physician a provider is not a style preference but an ethics problem, one that lumps doctors in…
Cardiologist and fiduciary financial planner Stanley Liu explains why physician risk aversion is adaptive in medicine and maladaptive with money. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any physician confused about their own financial risk tolerance needs this distinction before their next big money decision. #Shorts #PhysicianFinance…
Physician and coach Lisa Rubiano explains why physician burnout is a predictable response to a broken system, not a sign you are weak or lack resilience. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone running on empty after another shift needs to hear who that toxic system…
Jess Bunin, an intensivist and co-founder of All Levels Leadership, explains why the government shutdown shows how leaders break trust by withholding information instead of communicating through uncertainty. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any leader managing a team through a crisis needs to hear why…
A Medicare rule change almost no one noticed just cut inpatient physician pay by up to 10 percent, and the fallout could land on your medical bills. John Birkmeyer, a general surgeon who now runs the medical group at Sound Physicians, explains how a 30 to 40 percent cut to…
Internal medicine physician Lisa Rubiano explains the moment she admitted medicine was making her miserable, and how lifestyle medicine became her way out. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Physician burnout pushed her to rebuild around lifestyle medicine and coaching instead of leaving medicine entirely. #Shorts…
You think you know what your kid watches online. You almost certainly do not. Emergency physician Matthew Turner walks through how a small corner of true crime fandom slides from ordinary interest into obsession, imitation, and the glorification of killers, the warning signs parents miss until late, and the talk…
Medicare can claw back up to 9 percent of a clinician's pay for failing a quality program that was never designed for the patients they treat. Steve Buslovich, a geriatrician and post-acute care executive at PointClickCare, breaks down how MIPS forces nursing home doctors into conflicting documentation, gameable measures, and…
Cardiologist and financial planner Stanley Liu explains why how a surgeon copes with a bad surgical outcome reveals more about their inner psychology than any credential. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone in medicine carrying a loss they could not prevent needs to hear how…
Internal medicine physician and physician coach Dr. Lisa Rubiano explains the moment she realized her burnout was never a personal failing. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone running on empty in medicine needs to hear what she says about the system itself. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #PhysicianCoach
Some women grieve a child they never had, then get blamed for it. Fertility specialist Yemi Famuyiwa explains the unspoken grief and cultural stigma of infertility, the women branded barren and pushed out of their families, and how words clinicians use every day, failed cycle, poor responder, ovarian failure, drive…
Cardiologist and fiduciary financial planner Stanley Liu explains why a couple where one partner controls all the money is one illness away from a crisis. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone in a marriage where only one person manages the money needs this financial planning…
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…
