After 23 years holding the line in the emergency room, Scott Burnham found himself in the hospital parking lot one night, unable to start his car and unable to go home. Burnham, an emergency physician turned mental health advocate and author of Lifeline, spent his career treating mental health patients…
A doctor reveals how common fertility meds can cause irreversible damage. When conception is a joint venture, misalignment can halt dreams. Understanding all details is crucial. #Fertility #MensHealth #DoctorAdvice #Conception #Medical
Coach and professor Kathleen Muldoon on why medical training itself, not the trainees, is producing burned out doctors and what a humane medical education would actually require. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #MedicalEducation
She was seeing 22 patients a day and slowly disappearing. Then she cut back to three days a week, gave every patient 30 minutes, and started making more money than she did full time. Jerina Gani, a primary care physician of 20 years, spent 15 of them burned out before…
Erica Bove, a reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist, explains why quitting marijuana or smoking is the most reversible male fertility factor. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone trying to conceive who smokes or uses cannabis needs to hear the sperm life cycle timing before they…
Doctors are trained to look invincible, so most stay silent when they are drowning. The reason is not pride. It is a credentialing form. Namit Chokshi, a physician entrepreneur who runs a mental health company for clinicians, explains how one honest answer about depression or substance use can block your…
You are not failing. The system is built to make you feel that way, and it starts long before you ever see a patient. Family physician J.C. Sue returns to explain why "we are not enough" really means "we are not infinite," and why that reframe matters after the mistakes…
Cardiologist and fiduciary financial planner Stanley Liu starts financial planning with a client's money psychology, not their spreadsheet. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone rethinking their financial planning needs to know their money scripts before the numbers mean anything. #Shorts #PersonalFinance #MoneyScripts
A patient messages you at 2 a.m. with a fever the night after surgery, and your answer is stuck behind the next time you open the inbox. Orthopedic surgeon Kevin J. Campbell says that gap is exactly where care breaks, and that a new kind of AI can close it…
Kathleen Muldoon, a coach and professor, on why she believes artificial intelligence cannot teach empathy in medical education and what her workshops do that AI never can. Medical students, empathy training, and the hidden curriculum in one honest take. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify #Shorts…
Erica Bove, a reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist, breaks down how prescribed testosterone for low T can wipe out sperm production, and why men are rarely warned. Anyone taking testosterone replacement who still wants kids needs this before their next dose. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or…
She looks normal on the outside, but she can't feel a burn, a bump, or an underwire poking through her skin. After a mastectomy, most women lose sensation in their chest, and almost nobody warns them first. Emily Hansen, a patient advocate who has spent eight years working with breast…
Cardiologist and fiduciary financial planner Stanley Liu explains why physician debt makes fear of investing rational, not irrational. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify A doctor earning $300K with $400K in student loans and a $600K mortgage has low risk capacity, so low risk tolerance actually…
Most patient visits do not fail in the room. They fail after, when a patient goes home with "call me if it gets worse" and no idea what worse actually means. Retired surgeon and patient advocate Alan P. Feren argues that undefined thresholds quietly shift clinical decisions onto patients who…
Coach and professor Kathleen Muldoon on why medical students outsourcing their thinking to AI is a curriculum problem, not a character problem. She explains why it quietly convinces students they are not good enough. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify #Shorts #MedSchool #AIinEducation
Most physicians retire with a million dollars less than they should, and most never notice it is gone. Hernan Moscoso Boedo, an economics professor married to a physician, looked at the data and found that doctors invest like people who earn half as much. The reason is not intelligence. It…
Reproductive endocrinologist Erica Bove explains why the male partner is so often left out of an infertility workup, and what a basic semen analysis actually screens for. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone starting an infertility workup should know that up to 40% of cases…
Most physicians stay in jobs they have outgrown, not because they cannot afford to leave, but because going two weeks without a paycheck feels too scary. Stanley Liu, a cardiologist who also works as a fiduciary financial planner, explains why "first do no harm" training quietly pushes doctors toward the…
Cardiologist and fiduciary financial planner Stanley Liu explains why physicians choose certain, suboptimal returns over higher long-term gains. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Doctors researching physician investing, retirement planning, and financial risk tolerance will want this before their next big money decision. #Shorts #PhysicianFinance #LossAversion
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…