Studies link 30 to 40 percent of malpractice suits to one thing: communication. Patients walk out of the exam room with fragments instead of a plan, then turn to the internet or AI to fill in what their physician never said out loud. Alan P. Feren, a retired surgeon and…
General dentist Sowjanya Gunukula on what AI actually does in a dental office, and what it does not. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone tracking AI in dentistry or dental diagnosis tools should hear how a working dentist draws the line between detection and decision.…
He wrote an essay arguing physician neutrality was a beacon of ethics. Then he sat down to talk about it and took the word back on air. Farid Sabet-Sharghi, a psychiatrist who practices in Ohio and the DC area, says American doctors don't need neutrality, they need unbending moral integrity,…
Anesthesiologist Lyndsay Hoy was trained to keep others breathing during surgery while her own chest filled with liters of lymphatic fluid. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Every clinician who has worked through a serious symptom should hear this story of pleural effusion. #Shorts
Dr. Sowjanya Gunukula on how AI in dentistry helps general dentists detect early disease and shift toward preventive care. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone worried about AI replacing their dentist needs to hear how early disease detection actually changes the visit. #Shorts
Anesthesiologist Lyndsay Hoy on what destabilizes rare disease patients more than the diagnosis itself. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone newly facing a rare disease diagnosis needs to hear what comes after the appointment, not just the name of the condition. #Shorts
A Division I volleyball player lost 40 pounds in two months while her doctors said it was anxiety or a stomach flu. A TikTok led her to ask for a celiac test, and the doctor pushed back because she was not throwing up. Kamiah Gibson, a former Ohio State athlete…
85 to 90% of women physicians are eldest daughters. Pediatrician Jessie Mahoney explains why that is not a coincidence and how the pattern feeds physician burnout. Eldest daughters are rewarded for hyper-responsibility before they can read. The career selects for the traits their families already trained. The burnout that follows…
Obesity medicine physician Jessica Duncan on what actually happens to weight after patients stop Ozempic, Wegovy, or Zepbound, and the one factor that separates the patients who keep the weight off. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone tapering off a GLP-1 for weight loss needs…
A doctor Googled her own name and a corporate clinic showed up instead of her practice. That was the moment she realized something had shifted. Stephanie Waggel, a psychiatrist who runs two private practices in Virginia and several adjacent businesses, walks through what vertical integration actually looks like inside health…
Physician coach Jessica Singh, MD explains why a toxic medical workplace is systems toxicity, not personal weakness. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone facing physician burnout or thinking about leaving medicine needs this reframe before deciding to stay or quit. #Shorts
Why physicians cannot rest, and what changes when they do. Roxanne Almas on physician burnout, grief, and rebuilding a practice around recovery. Almas, a developmental-behavioral pediatrician, lost her mother to cancer in eighteen months while caring for a father with advanced Parkinson's, and returned to clinic with almost no structural…
Your next dentist visit already has a silent second set of eyes in the room, and almost no one tells you. AI is reading your X-rays in the background, color-coding what used to look like a meaningless gray shadow, and flagging cavities and bone loss before the dentist speaks. Sowjanya…
Sham peer review uses one vague word to end physician careers, and up to 10 percent of peer reviews fit the pattern. Tracey O'Connell, MD, a radiologist and physician coach, breaks down the playbook on The Podcast by KevinMD: the email out of nowhere, the "disruptive" label with no specifics,…
Why physicians cannot take sabbaticals, even at institutions where the policy exists on paper. A palliative care physician asked for three months off and was told to come back in 10 years. Christie Mulholland, palliative care physician and certified physician development coach, walks through her own request, the denial, and…
For the first time in eight years, the LDL cholesterol targets just changed. Preventive cardiologist Seth Baum, who chairs the Family Heart Foundation, walks through the March 2026 ACC and AHA guideline update: the new LDL thresholds by risk level, a new risk calculator, universal lipoprotein(a) screening, an elevated role…
GLP-1 weight loss looks good on the scale and dangerous on bioimpedance. Skeletal muscle loss and elevated body fat are showing up in patients who lost 50 pounds and felt like a success story. Maureen McBeth is a physical therapist and certified lymphedema specialist. She explains why BMI is inadequate…
Bettina Reed, FNP-BC, draws a hard line: if a task hurts patient care, she will not do it, even if admin writes her up. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any clinician fighting healthcare bureaucracy or burnout needs to hear how she handles admin pushback. #Shorts
Three states now have legal psilocybin therapy access. Most physicians were never trained on contraindications, drug interactions, or patient screening. Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD, walks through what primary care physicians need to know before the next exam-room conversation, with 2026 FDA priority review developments factored in. Search "The Podcast…
Obesity medicine physician Jessica Duncan on why the GLP-1 long-term decision has to be made at visit one, not after the weight comes off. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone starting Ozempic, Wegovy, or Zepbound for weight loss needs this conversation before the first injection.…
She was 28, in her first week of anesthesiology training, and her chest was filling with lymphatic fluid. The imaging found lungs that looked like lace. Lyndsay Hoy, an anesthesiologist who now serves on the board of a rare disease nonprofit, learned she had a rare estrogen-sensitive lung disease and…
Physician coach Jessica Singh, MD shares the one thing she would change about how she handled a difficult workplace event. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Practical advice on physician workplace conflict, hospital administrator meetings, and protecting yourself in difficult conversations at work. #Shorts
A 69-year-old family physician describes his unsedated colonoscopy and gives a pain map at each anatomic landmark of the colon. Mike Neskovic has practiced family and geriatric medicine for 33 years. He took the Hippocratic Oath in 1977 and has run 31 Los Angeles marathons. For his first colonoscopy in…
He said no to one routine x-ray and the cleaning was canceled on the spot, framed as a licensure risk that turned out not to exist. Aaron Rosenberg, a patient advocate who has worked across clinical practice, health systems, and insurance, walks through the dental visit that made him write…