Doctors feel guilty for calling in sick, even when it is exactly the right call. Christie Mulholland, palliative care physician and physician coach, sees this physician guilt all the time in the doctors she works with. It even has a name, hidden guilt, and it shows up when you do…
Investigative reporter Martha Rosenberg worked inside two medical ad agencies, and her warning covers prescribers as much as patients. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone weighing breaking health news or a new drug headline should watch this before sharing it. #Shorts #BigPharma #DrugNews
A 30-year-old soldier walks in with the knee of a 60-year-old. Ann Lebeck, a family medicine and sports medicine physician who spent more than 10 years caring for soldiers, says the MRIs got so predictable she only needed to know how long someone had been in. She explains why soldiers…
Palliative care physician and coach Christie Mulholland traces lifelong beliefs back to whoever first told you the story. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify If you are working on limiting beliefs, self-awareness, or quieting your inner critic, start with her three questions at the end. #Shorts…
Your patient asked ChatGPT about the rash before they called your office. The waiting room moved to their phone, and by the time they sit down, you are the second opinion. Tod Stillson, a family physician who also builds health care companies, says the AI companies are racing to be…
Investigative reporter Martha Rosenberg breaks down why a drug maker sponsored trial with a surrogate endpoint gets covered as dementia news. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Before you trust the next dementia drug headline, check what the trial measured and who paid for it. #Shorts…
The catchy knee replacement name patients bring to the exam room has no published research behind it. Cory Calendine, an orthopedic surgeon who does 700 to 800 hip and knee replacements a year, explains where those names come from, what the surgical approach underneath them actually does, and why a…
Pediatrician Jessie Mahoney says every year of medical training lands inside your reproductive years, and she wants that changed. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone weighing residency, fellowship, or family planning needs her case for slower, staggered medical training. #Shorts #MedSchool #MedicalTraining
The thought comes fast in the exam room: how are they doing this? Najat Fadlalla, a developmental behavioral pediatric fellow, says pause right there. Much of the parenting evidence clinicians lean on was built on one narrow slice of the world, and normal parenting from outside it keeps getting treated…
Jessie Mahoney, a pediatrician and certified coach, is asking whether the work itself is why so many women physicians are sick. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Women in medicine with chronic illness or early cancer rarely hear it framed as occupational. #Shorts #WomenInMedicine #ChronicIllness
Anesthesiologist Michael Peck spent 30 years watching skilled clinicians hit the limits of memory, attention, and decision-making under stress. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone who cares about patient safety and medical errors should hear his case for human limits. #Shorts #PatientSafety #MedicalErrors
He spoke up at a resident meeting in October. By April he was handing over his badge and being walked out in the middle of the workday, in front of his colleagues and his patients. Vasilii Khammad is a physician and researcher who came to the U.S. as a Fulbright…
Pediatrician Jessie Mahoney says the bad luck story hides how often women physicians get sick and blame themselves. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any woman in medicine who has called her own health problems bad luck should hear what she wants to change. #Shorts #WomenInMedicine…
A nurse survived a violent assault at work, and the hardest part came after: nobody would listen. June Garen spent her career in psychiatric nursing and the operating room until a head injury took it away. She is joined by Carleigh Beriont, a local government official and former union organizer,…
Anesthesiologist Michael Peck says whoever leads a cardiac arrest is working from recall of a course taken up to a year earlier. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone facing ACLS recertification or another code blue knows why patient safety cannot rest on recall. #Shorts #CardiacArrest…
Pediatrician and certified coach Jessie Mahoney explains why a curse can't be fixed but a documented pattern can. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Women physicians carry chronic illness, early cancers, and infertility that medicine writes off instead of studying. #Shorts #WomenInMedicine #PhysicianHealth
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