Before radiofrequency ablation, patients hear about the nerve that gets burned. They are rarely told that the same nerve runs the muscle that holds the spine steady. Francisco M. Torres, an interventional physiatrist who treats spine pain, is not against the procedure. He is against doing it to a 25-year-old…
Safe staffing is a policy problem, and the people it's about are not in the conversation. Carleigh Beriont wants federal action so nurses can organize, unionize, and get safe staffing. She says this doesn't land only on nurses, it lands on patients and on nurses' families too. Her last sentence…
Internal and emergency medicine physician Gus W. Krucke says medicine changed over decades and physicians are grieving that change. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone researching physician burnout in health care should hear what he says the word leaves out. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #PhysicianGrief
For four years, her pain was called fibromyalgia and depression. It was two autoimmune diseases, one of them narrowing her aorta to a few millimeters. Victoria Rundus, a pediatrician in middle Tennessee, spent those years feeling unheard and disbelieved, until one emergency physician put a stethoscope on her abdomen and…
Otolaryngologist Franklyn R. Gergits asks primary care colleagues for a two-second pause: be sure it's bacterial, or send the patient for a second opinion. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone managing recurrent sinus infections or weighing another antibiotic course needs this first. #Shorts #Antibiotics #AntibioticStewardship
Horrified by silence. Grateful for voices like June's. These incidents aren't 'part of the job' for those caring for our most vulnerable. Their stories deserve a platform. 🩺 Search “The Podcast by KevinMD” on Apple or Spotify. #CaregiverStories #VulnerableCommunity #HealthcareHeroes #SpeakOut
A pediatrician went on a podcast, then found her own expertise inside a stranger's AI. Sonal Patel, who runs a home health clinic for families in the first months after birth, built her own tool instead. She explains how it happened, why she thinks physicians are the last group who…
Internal and emergency medicine physician Gus W. Krucke says doctors come to every patient as human beings, not computers with obvious answers. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify The full episode connects physician burnout, malpractice fear, and medical decisions made under pressure. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #DoctorsAreHuman
Your patient is not going to bring up pain, dryness, or lost intimacy on her own. Medicine spent decades teaching women that those topics were off limits, so the exam room stays quiet. Michael Reed, an OB/GYN whose practice is built around women's sexual health, says one question opens all…
Otolaryngologist Franklyn R. Gergits shows the workup he runs when sinus infections keep returning, endoscope-guided specimen to PCR results. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify If recurrent sinus infections keep outlasting antibiotics, this is the testing to ask about. #Shorts #SinusInfection #Sinusitis
Gus W. Krucke, an internal medicine and emergency medicine physician, says resilience does not just miss the point, it judges the physician. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone running physician burnout or resilience training should hear how that word lands on doctors. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #PhysicianResilience
Your blood pressure is fine. Your cholesterol is fine. You still feel terrible, and nobody can tell you why. Shiv K. Goel, an internal medicine physician who also practices functional medicine, argues that a normal panel can miss years of chronic stress. He explains what he tests, what he says…
June Garen, a retired psychiatric and operating room nurse, describes what changed in her after she was assaulted at work. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone following workplace violence in health care needs to hear what an assault costs a nurse afterward. #Shorts #WorkplaceViolence #NurseSafety
A medical student offered $1,000 to have a residency personal statement written for them. Not to cheat, and not to put it off. Kathleen Muldoon, a certified coach and medical education professor who runs personal statement workshops, sat that student down and heard something else entirely: fear of who they…
Palliative care physician and certified physician development coach Christie Mulholland separates guilt after a real mistake from guilt with no proportion to the situation. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Guilt like this quietly fuels physician burnout. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #IrrationalGuilt
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…