Medicine is not one person's profession. When a transplant surgeon is in the operating room, his kids are on the other end of a FaceTime call he cannot answer. Alyssa Kressel, a strategic communications professional married to that surgeon, describes 15 years of training from the family's side: the support…
Pediatrician and physician coach Gita Balakumar describes the burnout where the doctor is still working and still not well. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Physician burnout and exhaustion rarely stop a doctor from working, and she names where healthy actually ends. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #BurnoutSigns
Driving home after a long shift, a doctor kept seeing a man standing by the road. A second look, and it was a road sign. Chinelle Miller, an oncologist in Jamaica who also writes and makes films, asked herself whether she was losing her mind, then went looking for the…
Jim Ellwood is an anesthesiologist who took ketamine for his own depression and describes a first session that felt strange. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify This is what early ketamine therapy for depression can feel like before the mood shifts. #Shorts #Depression #KetamineTherapy
Your surgeon may have finished training with less time in the operating room than surgeons once had. Danny Goel, an orthopedic surgeon in Vancouver, says the apprenticeship model never changed while duty hours, efficiency pressure, and outpatient surgery reshaped everything around it. He explains why case counts and exams can't…
Emergency physician Suneer Chander says telemedicine needs doctors who are committed to leading it, and extra income on the weekends won't get patients there. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Worth hearing before you take a telemedicine job or add remote physician work to your schedule.…
She loved her job and called it a fantastic career, and she still walked away after 20 years. Christine King, a nurse anesthetist, explains what changed: insurance deciding which procedures happen, threats from surgeons and coworkers that people hesitate to report, and stress she felt in her body until she…
Pediatrician and physician coach Gita Balakumar explains why burnout, inside health care organizations, can sound like the doctor couldn't hack it. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any physician facing burnout in the business of medicine should hear who she says the burden belongs to. #Shorts…
If you have ever pictured yourself practicing until they take you away in a hearse, this conversation is for you. Andrea Hayes, a retired endocrinologist, spent 30 years in practice and lived through two stays on a ventilator, an office manager who stole a quarter of a million dollars, and…
Anesthesiologist Jim Ellwood says the ketamine backlash after the Matthew Perry story is how psychedelics got into trouble too. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify If horse drug jokes and overdose headlines have you second-guessing ketamine therapy for depression, hear him out. #Shorts #Depression #Ketamine
A pediatrician gave a vaccine her chart said was due. The record existed, buried in a corner of Epic nobody thought to check, and the health system moved to put her on a corrective action plan for it. Health law attorney Dennis Hursh, who reviews physician employment agreements, explains why…
Suneer Chander, MD, on how a psychiatrist in his program turned national licensure and unpaid expertise into fractional medical director roles. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any physician weighing full time telemedicine against hospital shifts should hear where this path ended. #Shorts #Telemedicine #PhysicianCareers
If your PCOS has been treated as an ovary problem, this is the conversation that reframes it. Yemi Famuyiwa, a reproductive endocrinologist who runs a fertility center, explains what insulin does when it floods the system, why acne, chin hair, stalled weight and irregular cycles can all belong to the…
Pediatrician and physician career development coach Gita Balakumar says physicians who seek coaching for burnout are not admitting failure. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any doctor who has talked themselves out of physician coaching for burnout will recognize the shame she names here. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout…
Jim Ellwood is an anesthesiologist who has taken ketamine for his own depression, and he says what to do when the next prescription fails. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Worth hearing before your next appointment if antidepressants have stopped working. #Shorts #Depression #TreatmentResistantDepression
You have insurance, you need a therapist, and every name on the list is a dead end. Attorney Steve Cohen, who has filed seven class actions over what he calls ghost networks, says that is not an accident. His team called the first 100 child psychiatrists listed by New York's…
Asking for part-time, Fridays off, or a way out is hard when you can't afford to hear no. Stanley Liu, a cardiologist and financial planner, calls the answer a Courage Fund: cash set aside not for emergencies but for offense. He explains how it differs from an emergency fund, how…
For gastroenterologist Samantha Nazareth, the profession was her whole identity, until it was not a big part of it anymore. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Physicians and anyone else in a career change will recognize the identity question in her memoir, I Left Anyway. #Shorts…
A pregnant mom asked an online moms group about her baby's Turner syndrome result, and one commenter told her to abort. Stephanie Waggel, a physician who founded Improve Medical Culture, says one screening test and one stranger's comment are no basis for an irreversible decision. She explains why patients trust…
Jordan Grumet, an internal medicine physician, says about half of doctors are sued by 55 and names the specialties where the risk runs highest. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone weighing emergency medicine, neurosurgery, or pathology should know how unevenly malpractice risk falls across specialties.…
Chemotherapy stops working for about half of patients with aggressive lymphoma. There is a therapy that can cure many of them after that point, and only about two in ten eligible patients ever receive it. Manali Kamdar, who leads lymphoma services in Colorado, and Paolo Strati, who treats lymphoma at…
Michael Reed, a board-certified OB/GYN, says women's sexual health concerns are real and that clinicians need to start asking. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Every clinician who has never raised women's sexual health in an exam room is the audience for this take home message.…
Samantha Nazareth, a gastroenterologist, explains that her work evolved into telehealth consulting and AI, so the only thing she actually left was a windowless basement office. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any physician weighing a nonclinical career, telehealth work, or leaving medicine will recognize the…
American medicine can transplant a heart and pull a patient back from septic shock, and the chronic disease burden still climbs every year. Narinder Singh Parhar, an internist with about 40 years in clinical medicine, argues the missing piece is not another intervention but the individual health work almost nobody…