The doctor shortage is not a knowledge problem. It is a capacity problem, and adding more bodies is not working, especially in rural America. Tod Stillson, a family physician who spent 30 years seeing 35 patients a day before building his own AI-supported urgent care, argues the fix is not…
Emergency medicine physician and longevity practitioner Vikas Patel explains why the mechanism that makes BPC-157 heal injuries is the same one that worries him about cancer. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone considering BPC-157 peptide therapy for tendon or ligament recovery needs this risk conversation…
Nocturnist Chinyelu Oraedu breaks down why 2 to 3 a.m. is the most dangerous window on night shift, when melatonin peaks and alertness in night shift workers bottoms out. Anyone starting a night float rotation needs to hear this before the first shift. #Shorts #nightshift #residency
Why does practicing medicine feel like fighting a Frankenstein of stacked software? A physician executive with 34 years of practice argues that EHRs, population health tools, remote monitoring, and now AI have all been bolted onto 60-year-old billing infrastructure, and nothing has actually gotten better. Grace Terrell, who runs clinical…
Emergency physician Vikas Patel on the 10-year growth hormone question nobody is funding the study to answer. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone considering longevity peptides like growth hormone or BPC-157 needs to hear this before the first injection. #Shorts #Longevity #GrowthHormone
A functional medicine physician who has spent his career talking about root causes, toxins, and the food system says the Make America Healthy Again movement is borrowing his language and prescribing the wrong treatment. Shiv Goel, an internal medicine and functional medicine doctor, walks through the contradictions: RFK Jr. fought…
Chinyelu Oraedu, academic hospitalist and nocturnist with 17 years on overnights, breaks down what really happens to a doctor's body at 2 a.m. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone working night shift in a hospital needs to hear what she does to survive the 2…
Credibility as an expert witness is everything, and AI is quietly destroying it in courtroom after courtroom. Tracy Liberatore, a former physician assistant turned attorney who runs the National Expert Academy, walks through the real cases where reports were thrown out after AI hallucinated citations, what responsible AI use looks…
Brian Sayers shares the powerful story of losing his father when he was 12 to end-stage liver disease from alcoholism. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify A powerful story about loss, alcoholism, and what it means to become a doctor. #Shorts #PhysicianStory #DoctorLife
You learned to chase scores to get into medical school. Then you chased them in medical school. Now you are an attending chasing RVUs and turnover times, wondering when this stops. Ben Reinking, a pediatric cardiologist and physician development coach, argues the metric mindset is what disconnects physicians from why…
Vance Lehman, chief of neuroradiology education at Mayo Clinic, explains the hidden curriculum behind why capable medical trainees stumble. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone in medical school, residency, or teaching residents needs this framework before their next rotation. #Shorts #MedicalEducation #HiddenCurriculum
Forty years ago, an orthopedic surgeon looked like one kind of person. Tall, athletic, from the Northeast, almost always a man. That gate is gone. John Klibanoff spent 30 years in clinical orthopedics and now runs medical education at Zimmer Biomet, and he says the 5'1" musician once told ortho…
D1 volleyball player Kamiah Gibson on the moment she realized her teammates were more worried about her than she was, and why she wishes she'd taken a medical redshirt year to let her body heal. Playing through pain in college sports has a real cost. #shorts #collegeathlete #medicalredshirt
A young patient died on her psychiatry unit, and what followed was not what she expected. The coroner opened a case. The police arrived to interview her. The debrief was a hallway check-in. Devina Maya Wadhwa, a psychiatrist who writes about physician wellness, walks through the days and weeks after…
Rheumatologist Brian Sayers describes the night on call he found his father's autopsy report on microfilm and realized his dad had died on the same ward he was working. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Physician burnout and the childhood calling that shaped him. #Shorts
Vance Lehman, MD, chief of neuroradiology education at Mayo Clinic, on a hidden curriculum behavior every attending should learn but most never do. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Attendings who ask about trainee goals from day one reshape the entire medical training mentorship dynamic. #Shorts
Your patient lost 30 pounds on a GLP-1 and their A1C dropped. So they're healthier, right? Not necessarily. Richard Fleming, a preventive cardiologist who has spent four decades studying surrogate markers in cardiology, argues that weight loss alone tells you almost nothing about whether the patient is actually getting better,…
Pediatrician and physician coach Jessie Mahoney, MD names the one sentence that turns an institutional expectation back into a visible ask. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone navigating physician burnout, uncompensated work, or volunteer faculty in medicine needs this reframe before the next ask lands.
Primary care doctors deliver 75 percent of all mental health care in this country, and most of us were never trained to do it. Internal medicine physician Robert Smith, author of Has Medicine Lost Its Mind, walks the full 2,500-year arc that explains why: from Hippocrates and bloodletting through the…
A D1 athlete had to push her doctor to test her for celiac. The labs came back through the roof. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone wondering about celiac disease symptoms or asking for a celiac blood test needs this conversation with Kamiah Gibson. #Shorts
The new DOT ruling creates a hierarchy of allergies with no medical basis. Peanut and tree nut allergic passengers can pre-board to clean their seats. Egg, milk, sesame, shellfish, and wheat passengers cannot, even though the same trace exposure can cause anaphylaxis at 35,000 feet. Lianne Mandelbaum, an advocate who…
Psychiatrist Farid Sabet-Sharghi names the exact moment evil takes root, and explains why doctors do not get the luxury of looking away. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Physician burnout, empathy in medicine, and moral integrity at the bedside.
Jessie Mahoney, MD names the fear of judgment that stops physicians from saying no to extra tasks. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone working through physician burnout, toxic workplace dynamics, or learning to set boundaries at work needs this reframe. #Shorts
Kamiah Gibson, a Division I volleyball player at Ohio State, describes how a TikTok video led to her celiac disease diagnosis at 19. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Chronic stomach symptoms in young athletes often point to undiagnosed celiac disease. #Shorts