Nurse practitioner Bettina Reed explains the one thing she wishes every patient understood about how denials actually happen and whose side their clinician is really on. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify A nurse practitioner on insurance denials, prior authorization, and how patients can tell when…
Your colleagues don't have to explain to every new attending why they need a chair. They don't have to disclose a medical history just to get through a shift. And when federal agencies start proposing rollbacks on accessibility in the buildings you work and treat patients in, the message lands…
Dr. Noemi Adame, a board-certified pediatrician, breaks down why female physicians face higher burnout rates despite delivering better patient outcomes, including the data on inbox workload and physician longevity. She also walks through the FAST framework she uses to hold boundaries in medicine. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you…
Paula Muto, vascular surgeon and founder of UBERDOC, explains how ACA subsidies grew from 180 dollars to 3,500 dollars and why premiums rose with them. The conversation covers healthcare policy, direct primary care, health savings accounts, and why fund-the-patient reform is gaining traction in Washington. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD"…
Nurse practitioner Bettina Reed describes what it actually feels like in the exam room to justify every medication and test to an insurance reviewer. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify An honest look at prior authorization, insurance denials, and clinician burnout in primary care. #Shorts
Kenneth Botelho, PA and founding program director of the Doctor of Medical Science program at the College of St. Scholastica, explains why physicians, PAs, and nurse practitioners are being paid on value-based care metrics they were never trained to understand. He breaks down the medical education gap and what structured…
Jonah Rocheeld, a medical student raised Orthodox Jewish, explains the tension between Jewish law's prohibition on withdrawing life support and the clinical reality of patients suffering with no hope of recovery. His framework for reconciling end-of-life care ethics with religious conviction is something every trainee should hear. Search "The Podcast…
Your paycheck now depends on quality scores, HCC coding, and population health numbers that nobody actually trained you to hit. Most clinicians pick it up through mistakes and admin feedback, and it's quietly pushing people out of primary care. Kenneth Botelho, who runs a Doctor of Medical Science program, argues…
If you are on your death-bed looking back at today, what do you know in your bones you need to start or stop doing immediately? Internal medicine physician Kara Pepper poses that question after leaving the only practice she had known for most of her career, then building a telemedicine…
Health law attorney Dennis Hursh explains why hospitals are inserting hard compensation caps into physician contracts, using fraud and abuse as justification while the most productive doctors see their pay frozen and CEO bonuses grow uncapped. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD…
A patient is dying in agony, and your faith tells you removing life support is forbidden. Medical student Jonah Rocheeld grew up Orthodox Jewish and now confronts the collision between religious law and the suffering he witnesses in the hospital. ⏱️ Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:38 Growing up Orthodox and wanting…
Adam Cunningham, a health care executive, explains how medical debt contributes to 16 percent of U.S. suicides and shares how a friend got biologic treatment for rheumatoid arthritis at a JCI-accredited hospital in China after losing her insurance. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in…
Physician on-call work is labor, but most physicians are never compensated for it, and that gap is quietly driving burnout across specialties. Internal medicine physician Corinne Sundar Rao explains why the hospitalist model already proved the old system doesn't work, and why on-call compensation needs to follow the same logic.…
Medical debt affects 100 million Americans and is quietly linked to higher mortality rates and suicide. Healthcare executive Adam Cunningham explains what clinicians can do right now in the exam room to reach patients who are rationing medications or vanishing from care. ⏱️ Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:04 Adam Cunningham's background…
Moral courage in medical training: why students stay silent and what changes it. Kathleen Muldoon on moral isolation, middle power, and the hidden curriculum in clinical rotations. The Podcast by KevinMD #MedicalEducation #MoralCourage #HiddenCurriculum #MedStudent #ClinicalTraining #KevinMD #shorts
Dr. Shiv K. Goel breaks down why Wegovy's higher semaglutide doses may starve the optic nerve of blood flow, raising ischemic optic neuropathy risk far above Ozempic. Rapid weight loss from GLP-1 medications can cause volume contraction and blood pressure swings, especially in patients with sleep apnea or obesity-related vascular…
Chelsea Turgeon, a former OB/GYN resident turned physician coach, explains why chasing passion while burned out backfires and what to ask instead. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify When physicians are below their baseline, asking what feels like relief is the first step to burnout recovery…
Medical students know when something is wrong on their clinical rotations, but most don't know what to do with that information. Kathleen Muldoon, a coach and professor in medical education, explains why what looks like silence is really moral isolation, and how small acts of relational power can reshape the…
Nurse practitioner Bettina Reed wrote about this crisis after her own daughter started working in a busy trauma ER surrounded by these attacks. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify A nurse practitioner explains why violence against healthcare workers in emergency rooms is becoming a nationwide patient…
Chelsea Turgeon breaks down the hidden psychology that prevents unhappy physicians from quitting. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Many healthcare professionals experience severe physician burnout because the medical system uses intense pressure to keep them working.
Dr. Tammie Chang had the training, the coaching career, and the passion. She was still suicidal for three years. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify A pediatric oncologist and physician burnout coach explains how high-achieving doctors can still experience severe depression despite doing the inner work.
Chelsea Turgeon, a former OB/GYN resident, asks why physician suicide is more accepted than walking away from the profession. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify A physician coach explores why doctors face stigma for leaving medicine and how burnout and physician suicide are connected across healthcare.
Dr. Tammie Chang, a board-certified pediatric oncologist, explains what functional MRIs reveal about meditation and why she built a daily practice around it. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify A pediatric oncologist explains how daily meditation changes brain activity patterns visible on functional MRI scans.
Integrative pediatrician Dr. Mary Wilde says the real red flag is when your heart shuts off toward other people, and she can teach you to reverse it in 30 seconds. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify A pediatrician explains how empathy loss signals physician burnout and…