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Physician and coach Lisa Rubiano explains why physician burnout is a predictable response to a broken system, not a sign you are weak or lack resilience. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone running on empty after another shift needs to hear who that toxic system…

Jess Bunin, an intensivist and co-founder of All Levels Leadership, explains why the government shutdown shows how leaders break trust by withholding information instead of communicating through uncertainty. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any leader managing a team through a crisis needs to hear why…

A Medicare rule change almost no one noticed just cut inpatient physician pay by up to 10 percent, and the fallout could land on your medical bills. John Birkmeyer, a general surgeon who now runs the medical group at Sound Physicians, explains how a 30 to 40 percent cut to…

Internal medicine physician Lisa Rubiano explains the moment she admitted medicine was making her miserable, and how lifestyle medicine became her way out. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Physician burnout pushed her to rebuild around lifestyle medicine and coaching instead of leaving medicine entirely. #Shorts…

You think you know what your kid watches online. You almost certainly do not. Emergency physician Matthew Turner walks through how a small corner of true crime fandom slides from ordinary interest into obsession, imitation, and the glorification of killers, the warning signs parents miss until late, and the talk…

Medicare can claw back up to 9 percent of a clinician's pay for failing a quality program that was never designed for the patients they treat. Steve Buslovich, a geriatrician and post-acute care executive at PointClickCare, breaks down how MIPS forces nursing home doctors into conflicting documentation, gameable measures, and…

Cardiologist and financial planner Stanley Liu explains why how a surgeon copes with a bad surgical outcome reveals more about their inner psychology than any credential. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone in medicine carrying a loss they could not prevent needs to hear how…

Internal medicine physician and physician coach Dr. Lisa Rubiano explains the moment she realized her burnout was never a personal failing. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone running on empty in medicine needs to hear what she says about the system itself. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #PhysicianCoach

Some women grieve a child they never had, then get blamed for it. Fertility specialist Yemi Famuyiwa explains the unspoken grief and cultural stigma of infertility, the women branded barren and pushed out of their families, and how words clinicians use every day, failed cycle, poor responder, ovarian failure, drive…

Cardiologist and fiduciary financial planner Stanley Liu explains why a couple where one partner controls all the money is one illness away from a crisis. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone in a marriage where only one person manages the money needs this financial planning…

Patients are dying by suicide in every state, and a patient advocate says the reason traces straight back to money in politics. Richard Lawhern, who has spent three decades fighting for people in chronic pain, follows the dollars from dark-money donors to lobbyists to the laws that leave doctors and…

Internal medicine physician Lisa Rubiano explains why physician burnout comes from broken systems, not a lack of resilience. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Doctors who feel burned out need to hear why rounding faster was never going to fix a system designed to burn clinicians…

Billions of health care dollars get allocated by people who have never treated a patient, and physicians are barely 0.1 percent of that decision. Harsha Moole, an internal medicine physician who built a 200-doctor venture fund, argues your clinical instinct is the most undervalued asset in the room. He breaks…

Jess Bunin, an intensivist and co-founder of All Levels Leadership, on the empathy breach that breaks trust during a crisis and the one question good leaders ask afterward. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any leader rebuilding team trust after layoffs or a workplace crisis needs…

Most doctors think burnout comes from caring too much. It doesn't. It comes from caring the wrong way. Executive coach Eva Minkoff, who has navigated the health care system as a chronic patient for decades, and physician advocate Kim Downey break down a five-second shift that lets clinicians stay present…

Palliative care physician and physician coach Christie Mulholland on the specific pain physicians carry when the system blocks the care they feel called to provide. The gap between calling and what medicine allows is where physician burnout actually lives. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify #Shorts…

When a professor caught her medical students using AI on their reflections, she did not call them lazy. She called them in. Kathleen Muldoon, a professor and medical educator, argues that students reaching for AI is a rational decision inside an irrational system, one that rewards performance over reflection. The…

Intensivist Jess Bunin and rheumatologist George Mount on the small acts of active listening that built trust on health care teams during COVID. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone leading a team through uncertainty can use this before their next one-on-one. #Shorts #LeadershipSkills #BuildingTrust

Your doctor says methylene blue plus an SSRI means serotonin syndrome. A 45-year physician says that warning comes from high-dose surgical cases, not the low oral doses he actually uses. Steven Warren, a longevity medicine physician who spent 25 years running nursing homes and geriatric psychiatry, dug into all 51…

Christie Mulholland, a palliative care physician and physician development coach, explains when a career pause beats pushing through burnout. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any physician weighing a sabbatical or career break needs to hear where the pause point actually is. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #CareerPause

Men are sold testosterone for low energy and low sex drive on billboards everywhere, and almost none of them know it can silently erase their entire sperm count. Reproductive endocrinologist Erica Bove sees a couple roughly once a week where no one realized the husband's "Low T" treatment was the…

Christie Mulholland, a palliative care physician and certified physician development coach, explains how the right question lowers physician burnout. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Doctors stuck in burnout and low career satisfaction often need a better question, not a lighter schedule. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #PhysicianCoach

Your ER doctor has 15 minutes to build your whole medical story, and most of the time they cannot see records from your other doctors at all. Emergency physician and physician executive Hamed Husaini explains why the problem was never too little data, it was data scattered across systems that…