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“I think it’s much more likely that my patients — some of whom are terminal and facing their own mortality; others who are suffering through a multitude of side effects from their cancers or our treatments – …
When patients want their doctors to heal [PODCAST]
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“The value of empathy in medicine is seldom debated. Just as the art of medicine is taught as the balance of knowledge and application, so has empathy been recognized as both a value to be fostered and …
Giving language to empathy: lessons from palliative care [PODCAST]
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“The tech industry needs to invest in developing platforms and devices with active, consistent, and frequent input from the disability community. This input must reflect a range of individuals with disabilities. A variety of identities exist beyond …
Want to improve telehealth? Ask people with disabilities. [PODCAST]
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“There is no temptation to go back to my old life. I hit rock bottom and have been enjoying a doctor’s job. My future is bright. My income is growing. My schedule still has plenty of room. …
Meet the primary care doctor who’s happy with his job [PODCAST]
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“The clocks have flash forwarded, and here I am supervising incoming interns on the 1st of July (which for the past two years has fallen on a weekend). As a frenetic day has finally come to a …
Habits of highly effective interns [PODCAST]
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“I smiled, put the lamb curry in front of her, and instructed her granddaughter on how much time to heat it up in the microwave.
Val wasn’t in a condition where she could have a long conversation with …
A cancer patient’s last wish [PODCAST]
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“Health system leaders can master this ‘chess game’ by anticipating the next several moves well in advance with the assistance of AI-based predictive analytic tools. This adoption will lead to dramatically better outcomes than a purely reactive …
How AI-based technology can help improve hospital capacity management [PODCAST]
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“Modern parenting comes with challenges that only a modern parent can understand. As both a pediatrician and a mother, I dispense with the advice I wish I had when my daughter was born. While there may be …
How the internet broke parenting [PODCAST]
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“I was truly gutted when watching the recent Saturday Night Live that joked about nut allergies. My son Joshua, who is 16 years old, has an anaphylactic peanut allergy. I found the …
Food allergies are not a joke [PODCAST]
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“I learned the hard way what can happen when physicians—especially women physicians—lack personal boundaries. Before hitting my low point, I had no boundaries. I had been raised to give, give, give, and, when times became tough, to …
Boundaries for women physicians [PODCAST]
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“The scenario is preset, and hence based on a lot of constraints, but when it is run, there is freedom for everyone to operate. This freedom to take part in the defined context is the same as …
Using simulations to improve medical decision making [PODCAST]
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“As an audiologist, treating hearing loss is a part of my everyday life. Even still, I’m sometimes amazed at the difference hearing aids can make in patients’ lives. For example, recently, when an older patient with longstanding hearing loss …
Hearing is connected to well-being [PODCAST]
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“I’ve started to understand many aspects of business, and although we’ve done some pretty amazing things in the past two years, we’ve also made people frustrated and mad while trying to care for them. And so, I …
I wanted to care for people, so I became a direct primary care doctor [PODCAST]
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“I’ve consistently found that most of the doctors who want coaching help feel like I did when I struggled with my weight: They weren’t feeling like their lives were completely out of control or their problems were …
Emotional eating: Why you always want food [PODCAST]
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“In some ways, my diagnosis was the beginning of the rest of my life. I’m now a health coach, helping women struggling with chronic stress and anxiety. And I love what I do. I am able to …
How discovering trauma changed this doctor’s life [PODCAST]
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“For the better part of two decades in medicine, I considered printed journals an old friend. Getting my latest medical journal in the mail, opening it, enjoying the feel, look, and even the smell of the journal …
End printed medical journals [PODCAST]
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“You can talk about Ukraine and the courage of the Ukrainian people as you talk to colleagues and patients and as you talk to family and friends in your community. The U.S. may be divided now, but …
What physicians can do in Ukraine [PODCAST]
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In this special episode, KevinMD is on the other side of the microphone as he’s interviewed by cardiothoracic surgeon Philip Ovadia and patient advocate Jack Heald, originally aired on the Stay Off My Operating Table podcast. …
KevinMD on the Stay Off My Operating Table podcast
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“There is silence, then the words from the family flow forth. Angry, accusatory, confused, dismissive, worried, ugly, personal. The words cut deeply, and when I pick up the next chart, I feel as though I am still …
A pediatrician reflects after a difficult conversation [PODCAST]
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“The consequences of making miscarriage management unsafe will land most heavily on the marginalized and vulnerable. Our appalling maternal mortality rate in people of color will increase by miscarrying while Black. Our country and health care system …
Miscarriages in a post-Roe world [PODCAST]
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