Telling a burned out doctor to be more resilient sounds supportive. Gus W. Krucke, MD, an emergency medicine physician nearly four decades into his career, says the word does the opposite: it turns a system that changed underneath physicians into a personal failing. His argument: burnout is not the whole…
Anesthesiologist Michael Peck says supporting clinicians in a crisis does more for patient safety than demanding perfection. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone who reviews medical errors or runs patient safety meetings needs this framing first. #Shorts #PatientSafety #MedicalErrors
If you did not chart it, a jury will decide you never did it. Tracy Liberatore, an attorney and former physician assistant who reviews pressure ulcer cases, says these trials are almost never a fight about the wound. They are a fight about the chart. Care that was genuinely given…
Jessie Mahoney, MD, pediatrician and certified coach, on why women physicians get sick and why nobody has studied it. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Chronic illness, early cancers, and infertility keep showing up in women in medicine, and the standard explanation stops the inquiry cold.…
One in eight women has it. Seventy percent never get diagnosed. They get sent to a dermatologist for the acne, an internist for the blood sugar, a psychiatrist for the anxiety, and nobody connects the three. Yemi Famuyiwa, an OB/GYN and infertility specialist, explains why polycystic ovary syndrome just got…
Jerina Gani, MD, told her employer she wanted to work part time, and they respected it. She wants more physicians to make the same ask. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone dealing with physician burnout or considering leaving medicine should hear how a part time…
You have had four rounds of antibiotics and the sinus pressure is still there. That is not bad luck, and it may not even be infection anymore. Otolaryngologist Franklyn R. Gergits, who runs a sinus and allergy practice in Scottsdale, explains what repeat antibiotic courses actually do to the sinuses,…
Emergency physician Kenneth Scott Burnham watched patients ask for help for years before booking his own appointment. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any physician putting off mental health care will recognize the two years of therapy and medication adjustments that followed. #Shorts #MentalHealth #PhysicianMentalHealth
Drug makers used to court your doctor with baseball tickets and steak dinners. Now the plan is to cut the doctor out entirely and ship the pills straight to the patient. Martha Rosenberg, an investigative reporter who worked inside two medical ad agencies, breaks down three new tactics she watched…
Emergency physician Kenneth Scott Burnham treated mental health patients for 23 years, until becoming the patient showed him what was missing. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any clinician confident they understand physician mental health should hear what changed when the doctor became the patient. #Shorts…
Primary care physician Jerina Gani cut her clinic days, and her days off now go to stock trading and free patient education videos. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify This is the physician burnout recovery case for part time medicine over leaving medicine entirely. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout…
He is doing everything right in medical school and still is not sure it is the life he wants. So he asked ChatGPT to read his own chat history and tell him why. Jack Tiller, an MD-PhD student, shares the AI self-analysis that named the doubt he had never said…
The creatinine came back normal, the patient went home, everyone called it a recovery. It was not. In this episode, epidemiologist and health care executive John Erbey explains why a normal creatinine after surgery can hide real kidney damage, why lost functional reserve rarely comes back, and why that silent…
Primary care physician Jerina Gani spent 15 years at 22 patients a day before deciding the fix had to come from her. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any doctor stuck in physician burnout or thinking about leaving medicine needs to hear this. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #PrimaryCare
The guilt you feel for taking your own vacation days may not be yours at all. Palliative care physician and certified physician development coach Christie Mulholland breaks down "hidden guilt," an old guilt that often starts in childhood, gets recruited by medicine, and then gets exploited by a system that…
Emergency physician Kenneth Scott Burnham spent 23 years treating patients before one shift ended with him unable to start his car. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any physician quietly pushing through burnout or depression needs to hear what finally made him ask for help. #Shorts…
If you're not in the room, you're on the menu. Physicians ignored insurance, then business executives, then EMRs, and each time woke up to a profession run by people who were not doctors. Augusta Uwah, a hospitalist and physician-AI consultant who has built more than 50 AI tools she uses…
Janet Jokela, former treasurer of the American College of Physicians, traces the term to Medicare's 1965 rollout. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Physicians, nurses, and med students who wince at provider vs physician should hear where the healthcare system picked up the habit. #Shorts #Medicare…
Primary care physician Jerina Gani stopped rushing 20-minute visits and now earns more by resolving problems in a single appointment. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any doctor fighting physician burnout or drowning in packed schedules needs this case for longer primary care appointments. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout…
You are moving a freezer, you feel a twinge in your leg, and days later a nurse is saying the word cancer. What happens next depends on the person in the white coat. Kim Downey, a physical therapist and physician advocate who has survived cancer three times, and Randy McNeely,…
Emergency physician Kenneth Scott Burnham had his explanation ready, and when his doctor asked the first question, everything vanished. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Physician mental health stays invisible until a crisis, and asking for help is a clinical act, not a failing. #Shorts #MentalHealth…
Most people assume pregnancy just happens when they are ready, and the disappointment hits hard when it does not. Fertility specialist and author Yemi Famuyiwa explains what she wishes every couple knew before they ever walk into her office. The egg ages. Infertility is half a male problem. And a…
Emergency physician Matthew Turner explains how the isolated communities around these games spread radicalization to kids. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any parent searching for online safety for kids needs to hear how online radicalization actually spreads inside gaming communities. #Shorts #OnlineSafety #OnlineRadicalization
Every physician knows the joke: the doctor patient is the one who gets every complication. Jessie Mahoney, a pediatrician and physician coach, stopped laughing when she realized how many women in medicine carry chronic illness, early cancers, and pregnancy complications they were all told was just bad luck. She shares…