Hosted by Kevin Pho, MD, The Podcast by KevinMD shares the stories of the many who intersect with our health care system but are rarely heard from. New episodes every day, about 15 minutes each.
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Every episode ends with the same question: What take-home message do you want to leave with the KevinMD audience? The answers, quoted from every transcribed episode and attributed to the guest by name and date, are collected in Take-home messages: what physicians say when asked to leave one.
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A nurse survived a violent assault at work, then watched her hospital treat her like a liability, not a victim. In this episode, June Garen, a retired psychiatric and operating room nurse and …
Nurses are getting assaulted at work and no one listens [PODCAST]
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What if burnout is the wrong word for what doctors are actually going through? Gus W. Krucke argues that calling physicians burned out treats a systemic failure as a personal one, and that …
Burnout blames the doctor for a broken system [PODCAST]
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When a family finds a loved one with a severe bedsore in a nursing home, they often sue. But these cases are rarely decided by the wound itself. They are decided by what …
Bedsore lawsuits are won and lost on the record [PODCAST]
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If you have acne, irregular periods, and trouble with your weight, the cause may not be three separate problems. It may be one condition affecting your whole body. PCOS, long called polycystic ovary …
PCOS was never just about your ovaries [PODCAST]
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You keep getting sinus infections, so you keep getting antibiotics. What if the antibiotics are part of the problem? Franklyn R. Gergits is a board-certified otolaryngologist and fellowship-trained otolaryngic allergist with about 30 …
Why your sinus infections keep coming back, and antibiotics may be the reason [PODCAST]
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The pharma rep with the free lunch is gone. What replaced it is harder to see, and aimed at you and your doctor. Martha Rosenberg is an investigative reporter who has worked at …
Big Pharma’s drug marketing got stealthy, and you are the target [PODCAST]
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What happens when you ask ChatGPT to study every conversation you have had and tell you who you really are? One medical student did that, and what it told him changed how he …
What ChatGPT revealed when a medical student asked it to analyze him [PODCAST]
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Your kidney test comes back normal after surgery, so you must have recovered. Except the damage can be hiding in plain sight. John Erbey is an epidemiologist by training and the founder and …
Your kidney never fully recovered from surgery, and the labs won’t show it [PODCAST]
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You feel guilty for calling in sick, taking earned vacation, or setting a boundary at work. What if that guilt was never really yours? Christie Mulholland is a palliative care physician and certified …
Doctors burn out from a guilt that was never theirs [PODCAST]
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When your hospital decides how to use AI, will you be in the room or will you be handed whatever someone else picked? Physicians have done this before, letting insurance and then EMRs …
Doctors who ignore AI will get left behind [PODCAST]
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When a doctor shows real kindness, does it change how a patient heals? For Randy McNeely, the answer arrived the day his wife was diagnosed with cancer, and the calm, caring doctors who …
A doctor’s kindness changed how my wife survived cancer [PODCAST]
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Fertility specialist and Montgomery Fertility Center founder Oluyemisi “Yemi” Famuyiwa discusses the article “What no one tells you about fertility, from a doctor.” Yemi discusses the article through a compassionate look at …
What no one teaches you about fertility before you need help [PODCAST]
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Women doctors joke about being cursed with every complication, but what if the job itself is quietly damaging their health? Jessie Mahoney, a pediatrician and certified coach, returns to share her own story …
Why women doctors get sick and blame themselves for it [PODCAST]
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Medicare will pay your practice to keep chronically ill patients out of the hospital, so why do most practices leave that money unused? Rachel Yates, a registered nurse and health care executive, joins …
Medicare will pay you to keep patients well. Most practices miss it. [PODCAST]
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When a patient’s heart stops, the person leading the code is running on memory alone, and memory fails under that kind of pressure. Michael Peck is an anesthesiologist and retired faculty member at …
Cardiac arrest is a human problem, not a training problem
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For 23 years, an emergency physician stayed calm in the chaos and held the line. Then one night he sat in the hospital parking lot, unable to start his car and drive home. …
Why doctors hide their own depression until it nearly breaks them [PODCAST]
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For 15 years, a primary care physician saw more than 22 patients a day and slowly lost herself to exhaustion. It followed her home every night and onto every vacation. In this episode, …
Why the cure for physician burnout is seeing fewer patients [PODCAST]
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Clinicians are treated as invincible, so when their own mental health suffers, many stay silent. Namit Choksi, a physician entrepreneur and health care executive, joins to explain how credentialing forms and a culture …
How credentialing fears harm physician mental health [PODCAST]
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Clinicians are pushed to do more with less, until many quietly conclude they are not enough. J. C. Sue, a family medicine physician and adjunct faculty member, returns to unpack where that belief …
Why medicine makes doctors feel they are never enough [PODCAST]
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Orthopedic surgeon Kevin J. Campbell discusses the article “Understanding Generation 2 patient engagement platforms.” Kevin discusses the article through a practical distinction between first-generation patient engagement tools that increase access but also …
Why patient engagement platforms must reduce staff burden [PODCAST]
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