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…
Pediatrician and physician coach Jessie Mahoney names the easiest physician burnout fix institutions keep ignoring. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify A practical look at physician burnout, uncompensated work, and what hospital leadership can fix this quarter. #Shorts
A landmark trial said do not bridge anticoagulation around surgery. Then clinicians actually read it, and the patients on the wards were almost never in the study. Three internal medicine physicians, Benjamin Geisler, Jeffrey Greenwald, and Kathy May Tran, edit a book on the fifty studies every hospitalist should know.…
Dr. Stephanie Waggel Googled her own name and the top result was a large corporate clinic. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Every physician should know what their online reputation looks like to a patient typing their name into Google. #Shorts
Pediatrician and physician coach Jessie Mahoney explains why tracking your extra unpaid hours is the first step out of physician burnout. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone dealing with physician burnout, charting after hours, or uncompensated clinical work needs this take-home. #Shorts
A doctor who spent 25 years in practice tried to get a real answer from his own cardiologist and could not. Jeffrey Junig, a psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist who recently retired, lays out what happened after his lifesaving surgery: an aneurysm he learned about in passing, a beta blocker…
Anesthesiologist Lyndsay Hoy on why a rare diagnosis still hinges on luck and connections, not the system itself. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Patients facing rare disease diagnosis or an undiagnosed condition need answers that do not depend on who they happen to know. #Shorts
Studies link 30 to 40 percent of malpractice suits to one thing: communication. Patients walk out of the exam room with fragments instead of a plan, then turn to the internet or AI to fill in what their physician never said out loud. Alan P. Feren, a retired surgeon and…
General dentist Sowjanya Gunukula on what AI actually does in a dental office, and what it does not. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone tracking AI in dentistry or dental diagnosis tools should hear how a working dentist draws the line between detection and decision.…
He wrote an essay arguing physician neutrality was a beacon of ethics. Then he sat down to talk about it and took the word back on air. Farid Sabet-Sharghi, a psychiatrist who practices in Ohio and the DC area, says American doctors don't need neutrality, they need unbending moral integrity,…
Anesthesiologist Lyndsay Hoy was trained to keep others breathing during surgery while her own chest filled with liters of lymphatic fluid. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Every clinician who has worked through a serious symptom should hear this story of pleural effusion. #Shorts
