The Podcast by KevinMD in 2022: every episode and take-home message

This page lists every episode of The Podcast by KevinMD published in 2022, 364 in all from January to December, with the guests and, for each episode, one sentence from the guest’s answer to the show’s closing question, in their own words. Each title links to the episode, where the full conversation is transcribed. Sponsored episodes are listed without a quotation.

It is part of Take-home messages: what physicians say when asked to leave one, the record that reads every closing answer together, one of the KevinMD records collected at What physicians say.

Every year: 2020 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025 · 2026

January 2022

• Being naked with other doctors is a profound experience

  January 1 · Robyn Alley-Hay

  “Really, you’re not alone, and to check in with each other.”

• Unsolicited advice from unmatched residency applicants

  January 2 · Katherine Yu and Shaan Somani

  “I think that the biggest take-home message that Katherine and I would hope to take, or at the very least, that we certainly hope to convey through our article, is that not matching is not the end of the world.” (Shaan Somani)

• I wish it didn’t require a cancer diagnosis to trust me

  January 3 · Cynthia Cooper

  “Find a way of finding a human connection with them, the best way that you possibly can.”

• With Lynch Syndrome, knowledge alone isn’t power

  January 4 · Kerry E. Evers

  “Make sure that you’re telling people about what’s happening, because it most likely affects them as well, not only in terms of supporting you, but in terms of their own health.”

• Clearing the air our kids share: a prescription for healthy schools

  January 5 · Erika Maria Moseson

  “Thinking about distance, keeping the space between them.”

• Hello, health care organization leader, are you listening?

  January 6 · Diane W. Shannon

  “You don’t need to attend to them.”

• Anger toward the unvaccinated will only cause more harm

  January 7 · Stephanie Sun

  “We all have come from different experiences.”

• How MRI-guided radiation therapy is changing the paradigm in pancreatic cancer

  January 8 · Michael Chuong

  “I think the take-home message would be that MRI guidance is something that really is a paradigm change in radiation oncology.”

• Is direct primary care the answer to insurance-based problems?

  January 9 · Troy A. Burns

  “If they are all over the board in terms of their medical backgrounds and things, it’s just to recognize that direct primary care is really growing like wildfire across the country.”

• Crowdfunding to pay health bills

  January 10 · Andy Schoonover

  “If you want to reach out to us and are interested in giving folks cash-pay rates, then we would love to offer them the opportunity to do that.”

• Stress: Is it time to expose the alcohol con?

  January 11 · Michaela Weaver

  “There is nothing wrong with you, and the problem is hugely solvable.”

• How to end the misinformation pandemic

  January 12 · Ellen F. Foxman

  “There have been a lot of difficulties, but it’s also a disruptive moment where we can think about how to change things.”

• Our patients become an inextricable part of our lives

  January 13 · Benjamin Rattray

  “I think the biggest take-home message is just that the emotional aspect of medicine is really important.”

• What medicine can learn from the antiwork movement

  January 14 · Brendan James Flanagan

  “So I would just reiterate that I love my job, but I do still see it as a job, and there is more to me than just the work that I do.”

• Superheroes can have disabilities, too

  January 15 · Marie Lusk

  “For those of you who hold faculty appointments, who are in any position of training someone going through their health education: Find your disability resource person.”

• Empathy and decreasing medical liability

  January 16 · Helen Riess

  “The first message is, really figure out what you need to take care of yourself.”

• Analyzing the deficit of African-Americans in academic medicine

  January 17 · Mary Branch

  “If that’s truly your mission, then do it fearlessly.”

• Culinary medicine and why clinicians should garden

  January 18 · John La Puma

  “My take-home message is that perfect is the enemy of good here.”

• What I learned about medicine in the House of Pain

  January 19 · Casey Paul Schukow

  “We can’t get through this journey alone.”

• How advanced analytics can help social determinants of health

  January 20 · Mike Dulin

  “The tools are here, they’re developing, and we need to not be scared of them and not think of them as replacements, but rather as tools that help us to become more efficient.”

• Coal mining culture and the opioid crisis

  January 21 · Rebecca Thaxton

  “I think a take-home message would be what I’ve learned in writing these articles and helping, trying to spread the word about the crisis: I have come to have a great deal of respect for journalistic integrity.”

• Information overload and physician burnout: a KevinMD panel discussion

  January 22 · Sameer Badlani and Colin Banas

  “Often that is with coworkers, but a lot of times it’s definitely outside the four walls.”

• A physician’s self-care song

  January 23 · J. C. Sue

  “I would also like everyone to know that anyone who’s going through a hard time does not have to face it alone, and that there are people out there who are safe people, who are open to helping.”

• Lessons in caring too much from a fictional physician

  January 24 · Michael J. Collins

  “I think Matthew Barrett is somewhat of a tragic character.”

• Patient surveys: the quest for positive reviews

  January 25 · Peter Valenzuela

  “I think we as physicians and clinicians need to find ways to get to those tables where decisions are being made, because we can definitely influence and impact how we provide health care.”

• Men’s health is a catastrophe. Here’s how we can help.

  January 26 · Judson Brandeis

  “That’s really the name of the game these days: We need to be the influencers for our patients.”

• Mental health and the balance between technology and the human touch

  January 27 · Jay Spence

  “It’s the same message that I always ask everybody for whenever I’m talking to people.”

• When records are wrong, patients are at risk

  January 28 · Denise Reich

  “The minute you see an error, correct it, or try to get it corrected any way that you can.”

• Pay heed to the little life traumas that hit us daily

  January 29 · Natasha Khalid

  “So I feel like these narratives would be something we can read back into.”

• How physicians can play the hand they’re dealt

  January 30 · Paul Pender

  “Acknowledging the challenges is the first step to gain perspective as to what options exist.”

• Prioritizing physician wellness: Reducing burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

  January 31 · Lalitha Sundararaman

  “It is sometimes a disease, and like any disease, we have to diagnose and treat it.”

February 2022

• Why lifestyle medicine is an urgent priority

  February 1 · Elizabeth Simkus

  “It has a big impact that can make a difference in the health of our nation.”

• Bringing the Hippocratic Oath into the venture capital world

  February 2 · Navin Goyal

  “Do what you need to in order to fulfill yourself, and that fulfillment of yourself will positively impact the people around you.”

• Noah Kaufman, MD on the cryptocurrency market and educating physicians about Bitcoin

  February 3 · Noah Kaufman

  “As physicians, we all suffer from overachieving and working really hard.”

• Is Descovy really the better option?

  February 4 · Frank F. Zhou

  “Maybe don’t buy the hype immediately, and think about how you can sometimes save costs for the system, because health care costs are so high in the U.S. right now.”

• What shared journeys to the afterlife teach about dying well and living better

  February 5 · William Peters

  “Rather than the typical response of pushing death away, these experiences actually invite curiosity about what is happening with this great event of human death.”

• Why and how to get a second opinion

  February 6 · Sonya M. Sloan

  “Right now, of course, with COVID, you can always take a family member or somebody else in.”

• Innovation in a rural gastroenterology practice using a farm

  February 7 · Savita Srivastava

  “One of the key features of the gut microbiome is that it’s extremely dynamic, and it’s influenced by the foods that we eat.”

• Can medicine transcend beyond the clinic walls?

  February 8 · Kirk Heath

  “Like I said, I do miss practicing, but health care is such a fascinating industry, on the clinical side, the tech side, and the business side.”

• Health care’s goal is in peril

  February 9 · Vincent Roddy

  “This is a national security issue, and I would like to see the federal government do more to shore up our staffing issues so that we can have the capacity to serve you when you come.”

• Never underestimate the self-flagellation of the physician

  February 10 · Janet Tamaren

  “In general, in going through the stories my patients told me, there’s a lot of good.”

• Physician informatics and the chief medical information officer

  February 11 · Nathan Gause and Afua Aning

  “I would say the take-home message is that big data is giving us a wealth of information, and information about patient type, and that could improve patient care, especially for diverse communities.” (Afua Aning)

• Why is Covaxin not in the FDA’s toolbox?

  February 12 · Tayson DeLengocky

  “And even, as you can see, the monoclonal antibody was withdrawn from treating COVID because it doesn’t work anymore.”

• Autism spectrum disorder and the masks we wear

  February 13 · Lisa Yeh

  “Because I do have people with low cognitive abilities who have a little job of sorting or something, and they’re super happy.”

• Fund this: Policies can fill medical funding gaps for all

  February 14 · Amanda LaMonica-Weier

  “My take-home messages would be that the most powerful way to impact individuals is through legislation.”

• Medical-legal consulting as a side gig

  February 15 · Armin Feldman

  “I’m happy to talk with anybody who’s interested.”

• Danielle Ofri, MD on sharing stories and the emotional epidemiology of disease

  February 16 · Danielle Ofri

  “It may be that we’re the one who grabbed the wrong medication, but there are always factors that make that more likely to happen, as I’ve alluded to before, and we need to address both.”

• A shout out to small hospitals

  February 17 · Mike Sevilla

  “You know, I thought about this for a long time, especially for physicians who were going through this pandemic.”

• How to fix the CDC

  February 18 · P. Dileep Kumar

  “I think burnout is a major issue among physicians.”

• Guns, the Supreme Court, and physicians’ voices

  February 19 · David Galinsky

  “And the second take-home message is what we’ve just been talking about.”

• How to convert medical knowledge into digital assets that work for you

  February 20 · David Grew

  “If you have a problem in your practice and you think you can see a better way to solve this problem, just start building it.”

• A milligram of understanding for the vaccine-hesitant

  February 21 · Kenneth Szwak

  “I think at the end of the day, we have to check our bias and our personal feelings at the door.”

• I am an ICU nurse. We are drowning.

  February 22 · Lauren Powers

  “I think my take-home message would be: Find an outlet.”

• A PSA from a neurologist to the medical community

  February 23 · Aleksandra Yakhkind

  “So we might as well keep learning from each other and how to make our care and our communication align.”

• Pandemic behaviors, dog poop, and the social contract

  February 24 · Therese Zink

  “You can sign on for your own home tests at the federal website.”

• Opportunities from the coding changes in primary care

  February 25 · James Maskell

  “For a physician entrepreneur, this is a very exciting time to be alive.”

• How not to be a broke doctor

  February 26 · Jeff Anzalone

  “There’s something called the cash flow quadrant that Robert Kiyosaki talked about in his book Rich Dad Poor Dad, and you can actually just google cash flow quadrant.”

• Why boundaries should be part of your 2022 physician goals

  February 27 · Maryna Mammoliti

  “And there’s only one of you, so you have to protect the masterpiece, or there’s nothing left of you.”

• Diabetes impacts the whole body, but the foot can’t be forgotten

  February 28 · Jon Bloom

  “Two is that patients who are very complex are very vulnerable patients, and I think we have to continue to recognize that they will often have health literacy gaps, tech literacy gaps, and often be overwhelmed.”

March 2022

• Stop health care’s great resignation

  March 1 · Bridget Duffy

  “And I have hope that we can get this done and make change happen.”

• High deductible health insurance is bankrupting Americans

  March 2 · Ben Aiken

  “One, if you haven’t heard of direct primary care, take some time to think about it and look into it.”

• A nuanced look at the Tuskegee syphilis study

  March 3 · Bintou Diarra

  “Just that every single thing that the medical establishment has contributed to, whether intentionally or inadvertently, requires constant evaluation and analysis.”

• Digital apps and sustaining mental health

  March 4 · Zereana Jess-Huff

  “First of all, thank you to our first care responders for the work that they’ve done during the pandemic.”

• Why we should celebrate the Great Resignation

  March 5 · Wendy Schofer

  “I think one of the biggest ones is that we take it with us wherever we go.”

• Why health care delivery is an exceptionally different industry

  March 6 · Ryan Van Wert and Joe Mandato

  “I think the leader has to drive and be receptive to change.” (Joe Mandato)

• Tax planning tips for physicians

  March 7 · Syed Nishat

• Eating disorders thrive in secrecy, so let’s talk about it

  March 8 · Jillian Rigert

  “So as we promote and prescribe self-compassion for our patients, make sure we’re prescribing that for ourselves, so that we can also pay it forward, rather than try to fill their cup when ours is empty.”

• Coming back from the brink of burnout

  March 9 · Anthony Avellino

  “You must stay in the present, and you let the journey of life.”

• Cancer treatment and tumor-informed residual disease testing

  March 10 · Alexey Aleshin

  “I think if you’re interested in a career outside of the practice of medicine, there are many options out there.”

• What doctors and soldiers have in common

  March 11 · Susan Hart Gaines

  “To really take a new look at what self-care means.”

• Requesting disability accommodations in medical school

  March 12 · Stephanie E. Moss

  “But we have to let that imposter syndrome be quiet for a little bit and advocate for ourselves, just like we advocate for our future patients.”

• COVID and obstetrics: a physician shares her story

  March 13 · Yuliya Malayev

  “Never underestimate the power of the truth and of being persistent.”

• Are hospitals evil? A physician contract lawyer explains.

  March 14 · Dennis Hursh

  “Make sure your contract doesn’t allow them to push you around.”

• Why do physicians stay in toxic work environments?

  March 15 · Chelsea Turgeon

  “You don’t have to put up with working conditions that are not serving you.”

• Unrequited: love in the time of COVID-19

  March 16 · Rosemary Eseh-Logue

  “We are able to better provide just excellent care, because we know the boundary of ourselves and we know the boundary of the patient, and we can then interact in a healthy way.”

• How a code profoundly affected this physician

  March 17 · Rehaan Shaffie

  “Hopefully people feel very motivated to talk about the really important experiences in their life, and specifically within their career in medicine.”

• Managing expectations during COVID-19

  March 18 · Anne M. Miller

  “Number three, find a coach, a mentor, a partner, someone to walk the path with you as you’re making the changes you need to make.”

• Kids are not OK: Health care is failing them

  March 19 · Andrew Hertz and Keili Mistovich

  “I think the take-home message is what I already mentioned about insanity.” (Andrew Hertz)

• Family medicine and the fight for the soul of health care

  March 20 · Timothy Hoff

  “Take that good fight local; all politics is local.”

• Changing how we think about "difficult" patients

  March 21 · Joan Naidorf

  “It takes practice, and we have to keep reminding ourselves to look for some of the good things about our patients and about our workplaces, which, for some of us now, is getting really hard.”

• To my patient who is going to lose her hair from chemotherapy

  March 22 · Farhan S. Imran

  “I mean, we should just reach out, take out time in the evening or on the weekend.”

• A body part that fills me with a roller coaster of emotion

  March 23 · Poonam Merai

  “We have to build our careers as physicians, and we should.”

• We’re failing people with opioid use disorder

  March 24 · Arthur Robin Williams

  “So I think there are some ways that we realized we can be thinking much bigger and much bolder in terms of the kind of change we need, especially for underserved and more rural and frontier county areas.”

• Patients need palliative care to manage the pain of sickle cell disease

  March 25 · Ramandeep Kaur

  “This is the time that, as palliative providers, we should use our comprehensive approach for this patient population, for their overall pain management, as we provide for the cancer population.”

• Health care and the Latinx experience

  March 26 · Miriam Zylberglait Lisigurski and Ricardo Correa

  “The second is to reinforce empathy and respect, which are a big part of what we need to embrace as physicians, and as human beings too.” (Miriam Zylberglait Lisigurski)

• A physician’s new rules of time management

  March 27 · Laura Berenstain

  “Don’t project yourself into the future and spend your life wishing.”

• How to close gaps in social determinants of health

  March 28 · Joe Nicholson

  “This is not something that can be solved without really most of us being involved.”

• Support desperate health care workers now, before your life counts on them

  March 29 · Julie Collins

  “One of the biggest things is that we’ve seen that patients who are vaccinated don’t usually wind up on ECMO.”

• Inside the race to conquer the COVID-19 pandemic

  March 30 · Joe Miller

  “There’s no magic potion or hoodoo involved or anything like that.”

• I risked my career to save my life

  March 31 · Jillian Rigert

  “When I made my initial career decisions, I was strongly impacted by external cues and that constant need for external validation, and I never found it.”

April 2022

• To treat future COVID variants, we need more than vaccines

  April 1 · Ian Chan

  “I think there’s a huge role for monoclonals to play continuously in COVID, especially in the immunosuppressed population.”

• Asking for and receiving help is a sign of courageous leadership

  April 2 · Tammie Chang

  “Put your own oxygen mask on first, and help your colleague do the same.”

• Can patients just say no to treatment?

  April 3 · Charles Hebert

  “I think my take-home point would be to avoid social judgment.”

• Physicians and the weight of expectations

  April 4 · Michael Hersh

  “And you don’t want that answer to be no.”

• Nurses are in need of racial healing

  April 5 · Janice Phillips and Katie Boston-Leary

  “Once you have some more information about where you should be and what you need to do, then you take it forward to having really crucial conversations around this issue.” (Katie Boston-Leary)

• How a legal injustice changed this physician’s career

  April 6 · Mark Lopatin

  “Your profession is more than just seeing patients, and we need to be helping patients outside the exam room as well as inside the exam room, speaking out against the things that are hurting us and hurting our patients.”

• Primary care should be the center of gravity in health care

  April 7 · Sara Pastoor

  “Primary care is the only medical specialty that improves outcomes, increases life expectancy, and decreases the total cost of care while also improving patient experience.”

• New strategies are needed for mental health treatment

  April 8 · Christopher Valerian

  “You can’t really treat one without treating the other, and just keeping that in mind as people are moving through the health care system.”

• Am I a doctor or a contingency plan?

  April 9 · Margaret B. Nolan

  “That’s a valid way to feel at this point, and it doesn’t mean we can’t be resilient and recover.”

• Incredible true stories of pioneer patients

  April 10 · Rod Tanchanco

  “I think that’s how we make progress and make things better for the next generation.”

• How the pandemic affected teen mental health and substance abuse

  April 11 · Richard Capriola

  “Learn as much as you can about it, learn the warning signs, and feel more confident that if you have to deal with this issue, you’ll be able to deal with it.”

• Writing is an outlet for this physician

  April 12 · Janet E. Patin

  “Our lives are so intense, and writing has been a way to let me pause and refocus.”

• Remove race from clinical guidelines

  April 13 · Carmen Presti

  “We have to start to question things and take a risk.”

• Acknowledging and mitigating unconscious bias in health care

  April 14 · Brooke Trainer

  “Hiring great candidates is a two-way street.”

• Hidden wonders of human anatomy

  April 15 · Jonathan Reisman

  “If I ever notice that I’m losing that, it could be an important sign of burnout.”

• When a doctor leaves a practice, who tells the patients?

  April 16 · Karen Dong

  “It doesn’t matter if you need to jump around.”

• Help patients recognize how important their opinions are

  April 17 · Karen Sepucha

  “It’s a picture of these kids who are playing on a playground, and just about all of the kids are in T-shirts and shorts, and then there’s this one kid who’s in a hat, a winter jacket, and a scarf.”

• Pfizer and Moderna must share vaccine technology

  April 18 · Amber Gipson-Fine

  “We have to be able to take care of our teams and ourselves, and for those of us who have children or family members that we’re caregiving for, that’s also another chronic stress.”

• A psychiatrist’s part-time journey

  April 19 · Sirosh Masuood

  “If you’re taking care of yourself, you can be a better doctor, you can be a better parent, a better partner, or whatever your role is.”

• Debunking the myths around asynchronous care

  April 20 · Christina Chen

  “So for certain conditions, I think this is where asynchronous technology can really be powerful and transformative, and you can absolutely deliver high-quality care safely and efficiently without real-time interaction.”

• Tips for delivering difficult pediatric diagnoses

  April 21 · Laura Spiegel

  “I think it can make and break so many aspects of care from the very beginning.”

• How to cope with pandemic fatigue

  April 22 · Masood R. Mohammed

  “You’re going to be dealing with tough social interactions, tough patients, and really sad cases, so there are going to be a lot of negative emotions there.”

• How much time do physicians spend in the EHR?

  April 23 · James G. Kahn and Thrisha Gogineni

  “I think physicians should continue to educate the IT folks that it is really the clinical experience that we should be improving.” (James G. Kahn)

• What clinicians need to know about psychedelic medicine

  April 24 · Lynn Marie Morski

  “We’ve done some studies, and about half of the psychiatrists polled, their patients have already asked about that.”

• Advocating for a sick parent by confronting physician bias

  April 25 · Erin Paterson

  “The take-home message would just be to slow down if you can, listen to the patient, and speak to the patient as much as possible, even though it’s so difficult to do sometimes when you’re really busy.”

• A deep passion for palliative medicine

  April 26 · Patricia M. Fogelman

  “And it’s also, at the same time, a period of life where it’s difficult to care for ourselves maybe as well as we need to or should.”

• Listening to pain in our younger patients

  April 27 · Wayne B. Jonas

  “That’s sad, but the flip side of that is it has created a readiness to change.”

• Inhaler nonadherence and social determinants of health

  April 28 · Tejas Sekhar

  “We have to think about the reasons that go and extend beyond that.”

• Don’t be in a hurry to fast

  April 29 · Karla Lester

  “We have historically gotten a lot of stuff wrong.”

• Why selling will make you a happier doctor

  April 30 · Cindy Tsai

  “So the number-one thing is to really be present and focus on the current moment, and to see, so that you can change things for good.”

May 2022

• A physician’s personal great resignation

  May 1 · Ann F. Beach

  “I think that’s the most important thing.”

• Permission to burn the manual

  May 2 · Cathi Whaley

  “We’re constantly talking about how the system is not working, and I think all of that’s true.”

• Mental illness and suicide: a physician’s story

  May 3 · William Lynes

  “It makes you not afraid to have somebody know that you are having that sort of problem, if you already can confront it.”

• Understanding your medical malpractice insurance policy

  May 4 · Jennifer Wiggins

  “Make sure you really know what carriers are available in the marketplace.”

• What patients need vs. what patients want

  May 5 · Paul Pender

  “My interaction with my patients, I felt, was part of the joy that I received as a professional.”

• Finding meaning with medical missions

  May 6 · Danielle Sweeney

  “When I realized it wasn’t working for me, I think it’s OK to shift gears and to try something different.”

• What we need to know about environmental toxins

  May 7 · Arnold R. Eiser

  “I think the physician audience needs to be more aware of environmental toxins and how they might manifest in clinical illness.”

• Who will heal the physician?

  May 8 · Eliza Humphreys

  “There are two tools and practices to get through this and to relieve some of the distress, and I feel like we should be learning these alongside anatomy and pathology in order to remain happy in practice.”

• We are not defined by what we eat

  May 9 · Wendy Schofer

  “She is one heck of a writer.”

• Jim Dahle, MD and the White Coat Investor

  May 10 · James M. Dahle

  “I think the most important take-home message I can give you is to actually pay attention to your finances.”

• COVID-19 and the Great Resignation: a catalyst, not the cause

  May 11 · The Podcast by KevinMD

• Inside the mind of a medical novel writer

  May 12 · Dustin Grinnell

  “These books are really compelling to me, and I would just love to read more.”

• Listening to the doctor’s heart

  May 13 · Maryam Chloé Pervaiz

  “I think that element of the third-party objective person was so important to establishing those relationships for me that I wonder if there’s any way we can curate that in the world.”

• A patient explains the reasons behind doctor hopping

  May 14 · Denise Reich

  “Ask them why if you really need to, but don’t hold it against them.”

• Residency interviews and the inner muse

  May 15 · Liana Meffert

  “I had this whole list of residency questions that I wanted to prep for, which turned out to be pretty spot-on with a lot of questions I actually got.”

• Are my coping skills a result of my emergency medicine training?

  May 16 · Adrienne Van Curen

  “You also can’t show up for your family, and you can’t enjoy life, if you are ignoring your mental health issues.”

• Only patients can save U.S. health care

  May 17 · Drew Remignanti

  “You have to be as committed as I am.”

• Make technology work for doctors

  May 18 · Rodrigo Martínez

  “I think at the end of the day, it’s all about workflows and incentives.”

• Infertility treatment’s hidden costs

  May 19 · Stephanie E. Moss

  “I think it’s important to state that this is not a unique condition.”

• A physician’s story of dissociative identity disorder

  May 20 · Shelley Kolton

  “My other take-home message is pretty much what I said before.”

• Why I help physicians write

  May 21 · Jack El-Hai

  “But another take-home message is that this process of becoming a writer for physicians helps others as well as helping yourself.”

• A burnout coach saved my medical career — and possibly my life

  May 22 · Brett Linzer

  “My middle son is a sophomore in college, and he’s on a path toward medical school and becoming a physician.”

• Will Smith’s slap is a trauma response

  May 23 · Melissa Hankins

  “It’s very important to engage in your own self-care and become self-aware that you are a human being who is deserving of care, deserving of treatment.”

• Are you financially cheating on your spouse?

  May 24 · Shane Tenny

  “I think the take-home message is to pay attention to your relationship before there’s a problem.”

• Non-profit work and exploring the life of a pathologist

  May 25 · Hoda Zeinab M. Amer

  “I did not have to go through a publisher.”

• Practicing medicine as a Deaf physician is an uphill battle

  May 26 · Carolyn Stern

  “We are a medical team, and in teams, we can best take care of people.”

• Health care communications during the pandemic era

  May 27 · Stefanie Demetriades

  “The science has done a lot to protect us from COVID-19.”

• Why Congress should extend acute care at home waivers

  May 28 · Stephen Parodi

  “So I think what we’re seeing here is a transformation of the way we can provide care, and probably the way we should do it.”

• How to maintain your relationships during nursing school

  May 29 · Amanda Lundberg

  “There are a lot of things that they might just not understand about your work unless they work in health care, too.”

• Why is it hard to find grace in medicine?

  May 30 · Marsha Hamner

  “And try the three good things, and transforming it into the three ways you can show grace to yourself and others every day.”

• A story of a good death

  May 31 · Carol Ewig

  “And obviously, we always like to bring someone along if we can, you know, but not everyone can.”

June 2022

• A call to dismantle structural heteronormative care

  June 1 · Naila Russell

  “So you know, that’s something that we have to be thinking about and know about and talk about, and certainly make our opinion heard, because it’s not OK.”

• How reversing Roe v. Wade will affect physicians and patients

  June 2 · Susan Mann and Haywood L. Brown

  “It’s really time to pay attention to this matter.”

• Military and medicine: shared risk factors for eating disorder development

  June 3 · Jillian Rigert

  “I’m a huge Martha Beck fan, so I have many Martha Beck quotes that are huge takeaways for me.”

• How to solve burnout with communication

  June 4 · Nanette Nuessle

  “My take-home messages: The first one would be that there are three levels of listening: listening to answer, listening to understand, and listening to value.”

• The Great Resignation is a great opportunity to renegotiate physician employment contracts

  June 5 · Dennis Hursh

  “There are people like me that’ll do it for you, and there’s also a new course that just came out from The Happy MD on renegotiating a contract, so you can educate yourself and do it yourself if you want.”

• Patient care is not a spectator sport

  June 6 · Jim Sholler

  “Again, I think it’s the discipline to use a process, but also, if you read the book, you have to move from the fear of being a leader.”

• Burnout follows from physician to wellness director

  June 7 · Claudia Finkelstein

  “And the "it’s not you" is like, yeah, we need to advocate and really make strides so that we can get back to medicine as a vocation, as opposed to an industry.”

• A physician’s infertility story

  June 8 · Dympna Weil

  “I think it’s that we have agency in how we get to tell our story, and that we can say we’re broken, or we can choose not to tell that story.”

• A psychiatrist presenting emotion

  June 9 · Shivana Naidoo

  “You can always start with your schools.”

• Nurses are struggling in isolation

  June 10 · Beth Quaas

  “Start small, to make small changes that will make a big impact later.”

• Thoughts of a retired physician

  June 11 · Richard Plotzker

  “You know, there were crises before COVID.”

• Gender inequality is making burnout worse

  June 12 · Robert Pearl

  “We need to have a broader conversation about burnout.”

• Eating disorder myths debunked

  June 13 · Melissa Geraghty

  “It’s so important to be able to have that team so a patient can recover.”

• How long will it take to address clinical inertia in T2DM?

  June 14 · Donna Ryan and Robert Kushner

• Virtual care is convenient, but is it better for everyone?

  June 15 · Shruti Singal

  “Working at a TPA, one of the big things I think about is the providers.”

• Burnout is a spiritual crisis

  June 16 · Diana Londoño

  “Don’t listen to these false beliefs that we have been taught in medical training and all that stuff.”

• It’s time to flip the script on peer evaluations

  June 17 · Wendy Schofer

  “Our brains are always going to offer all the crap that’s going on in the background, but when we have an opportunity to really focus on what we want to see more of, we can amplify that.”

• A bad death: the importance of truth-telling at end-of-life

  June 18 · Althea Halchuck

  “I had 4,000 shares of that article.”

• Art as a tool to manage pain

  June 19 · Martha Sommers

  “You can hear that I don’t have the best speaking voice.”

• Primary care’s inevitable reboot

  June 20 · Paul Helmuth

  “Especially in internal medicine and pediatrics, there are just so many things you need to know, and you have to remember all of those things.”

• Strategies to help you prepare for multiple mini interviews (MMIs)

  June 21 · Rajani Katta

• Healthy patients and healthy physicians: Is it possible?

  June 22 · Iris Schrijver

  “We need to be well in order to do well.”

• Combining personalized education and digital technology to improve glucose monitors

  June 23 · Elizabeth Holt

  “I think the world and things are very tough right now, and sometimes we’re getting discouraged, but I want people to know that you’re not alone.”

• My experience as a teenage health care worker during the COVID-19 pandemic

  June 24 · Ananya Raghavan

  “My take-home messages, you know, I’m pretty young, so I’m sure many people who will be listening to this will be much more experienced than me.”

• Want your skin to look better? Then consider your mental health.

  June 25 · Katlein França

  “I think we have millions of Americans suffering from skin diseases, so exploring the physical and emotional causes of diseases is the key to a successful treatment.”

• Physicians need to be trained as entrepreneurs and encouraged to innovate

  June 26 · Sofia Yunez

  “So one of the things that worries me as a medical trainee is that we’re constantly hearing about burnout in the medical system and this need for wellness.”

• New legislation addresses health care professionals’ mental health needs

  June 27 · Anthony Avellino

  “You must stay in the present and let the journey unfold.”

• Medical school loan repayment tips

  June 28 · Travis Hornsby

  “Really pay attention to the PSLF waiver.”

• What I learned after being hacked on social media

  June 29 · Cindy Tsai

  “I think it’s really important to diversify, as we talked about.”

• A call to stop overworking

  June 30 · Amy Vertrees

  “It’s to pay attention to what you’re listening to in your mind.”

July 2022

• What doctors need to know about physician health programs

  July 1 · J. Wesley Boyd

  “If you get referred to a physician health program, you should consider that your license is potentially under threat and your ability to practice medicine is potentially under threat, and you should proceed with caution.”

• Let’s talk about bullying in medicine

  July 2 · Maria Peach

  “Because without a workforce, if people are leaving and we’re doing different things, then you lose a workforce, and we need a workforce to be able to deliver health care.”

• Treating pain without medication

  July 3 · Saloni Sharma

  “That even though the system’s broken, as clinicians, we can peck away and hammer away at it and make a difference.”

• Open-angle glaucoma: To screen or not to screen?

  July 5 · Paul Pender

  “I think it is, especially in the high-risk populations.”

• Be skeptical of certificate of need laws

  July 6 · Jaimie Cavanaugh

  “My take-home message is that everyone should be skeptical of certificate of need laws.”

• Regulate your nervous system to improve your physical and emotional well-being

  July 7 · Rebecca A. Ward

  “Anybody who goes into this line of work is, you know, you’re all just so incredible.”

• A shortage of geriatric doctors

  July 8 · Michael Pessman

  “We can do this, but it’s going to take effort.”

• Allow yourself a moment to focus on yourself, not the next patient

  July 9 · Mallory Salentine

  “I think my take-home message is that the more you practice this awareness, the easier it will be to ground and process and move on.”

• An example of medical-legal consulting

  July 10 · Armin Feldman

  “Something that can be stimulating, interesting, help people, be lucrative, and something that isn’t dictated by some big corporation or some big hospital system.”

• A hospice doctor’s advice on financial independence and living a regret-free life

  July 11 · Jordan Grumet

  “Be thoughtful and intentional about what you want out of this life.”

• Not a cancer survivor or previvor, but a cancer preventer

  July 12 · Nanette Elster

  “I guess what I learned in this process is that it’s different for everyone.”

• How to tackle the physician shortage

  July 13 · Sujan Gogu

  “You can still keep your job as a state legislator in a lot of states and be practicing medicine.”

• Using inquiry-based stress reduction to treat medical malpractice stress syndrome

  July 14 · Lara Patriquin

  “We can make our experience here so much better if we start to understand a little bit how our minds work and practice the things that allow us to see beyond it.”

• Why the new 988 hotline has the potential to transform mental health care

  July 15 · Rich Parker

  “Take-home message: Mental health is incredibly important.”

• Historical lessons to improve health care today

  July 16 · Alfred Sadler and Blair Sadler

  “The vaccine issue comes up, how to wear masks, when to stop.” (Alfred Sadler)

• Malpractice may be negative, but its data can generate positive results

  July 17 · David L. Feldman

  “Imagine you can keep patients and families involved.”

• Why a nurse should not go to jail

  July 18 · Barbara L. Olson

  “And I guess the advice, or the caveat, I would say to anyone in a leadership role is, "Show me the beef." You can tell I’m old when I say something like that.”

• A bullied medical assistant’s tragic story

  July 19 · Nanette Nuessle

  “The take-home message is that we are different personalities, and our personalities do determine our core values.”

• Don’t give up on intermittent fasting just yet

  July 20 · Heather Awad

  “Calorie-restricted diets are miserable, so if you’re thinking about trying one new and you’re not already doing one that you like, don’t try it.”

• Fibromyalgia is not a trash can diagnosis

  July 21 · Margaret Macdonald

  “Don’t forget about this business of, you know, what is normal anyway, and just think about whether or not the patient really knows that.”

• Patient platforms should be intuitive in design and execution

  July 22 · Christopher Noll

  “My message is, you know, more data won’t necessarily get us where we need to be.”

• Guns and public health advocacy

  July 23 · Marina Mai

  “You have to look at who these policies are affecting, and they’re affecting kids, and they’re the most vulnerable in our population, and they deserve our support and protection.”

• Stop financially handicapping non-citizen physicians

  July 24 · Zed Zha

  “This is a really good opportunity to get your story out there.”

• We are humans first and gifted healers second

  July 25 · Diane W. Shannon

  “I think that one of them is this word vulnerability, or humility, and humility in a good sense, not humiliation.”

• Allow yourself the space you need to heal

  July 26 · Liz Aguirre

  “I think the biggest thing for me is, if we’re not nurturing ourselves and we’re not taking care of ourselves, we can’t see the possibilities.”

• What a good death looked like

  July 27 · Yvonne Caputo

  “Even have the document, have it filled out, so that you can say, "This is what I want." To have those open discussions is really what I would like to see for everyone.”

• What needs to change in medicine for it to be sustainable?

  July 28 · Amanda Gwin

  “I’ve spent so much money in this profession.”

• Robotic interventional cardiology

  July 29 · Rhian E. Davies

  “I think, number one, if you’re having symptoms, make sure you’re talking to a cardiologist and get evaluated.”

• Transition planning: financial moves for medical residents and fellows

  July 30 · Shane Tenny

  “If you can look ahead and anticipate what’s coming and try to make some thoughtful decisions, I believe the saying is, "An ounce of planning is worth a pound of cure." So that is the key.”

• A physician mom’s take on telemedicine

  July 31 · Sabari L. Sundarraj

  “So that’s a very good example as a take-home message, that we should try every opportunity that comes before us.”

August 2022

• What this physician mom learned about shame

  August 1 · Christine J. Ko

  “We get uncomfortable, and we just sort of move away, and it’s OK if other people move away.”

• How to improve medication adherence

  August 2 · Tony Willoughby

  “Whether it’s my own kids at home or the audience itself: We live in a fast-paced world, and technology is fantastic, and we should use it in the moments where it makes sense, to accelerate and to gain efficiencies.”

• A breast cancer story from an Asian perspective

  August 3 · Bianca Haines

• Patient-initiated collaborative texting

  August 4 · Keith Dressler

  “I would say that for all of you who feel overwhelmed day in and day out, we’re here for you, because we want to give you your life back.”

• What it takes to build a pediatric weight management program

  August 5 · Karla Lester

  “I mean, if you want to get paid, you need to work with health care systems.”

• Less resiliency may heal burnout

  August 6 · Dympna Weil

  “And we have to remember that we need to care for ourselves.”

• Teen dies when blood culture protocol botched

  August 7 · Charles A. Pilcher

  “I think we don’t value our radiology colleagues as much as we should.”

• Why doctors are getting their asses kicked by technology

  August 8 · Drea Burbank

  “Being in clinical medicine is one of the toughest things that I think anybody can do right now.”

• I’m a physician, not a provider

  August 9 · Diana Londoño

  “Self-care is about loving you so you can love others.”

• A physician’s work dread and what he did about it

  August 10 · Michael Hersh

  “And then always recognize that you are making these choices, and at any point in time, you can choose something different, and you get to decide.”

• A caregiver’s love story

  August 11 · Nancie Wiseman Attwater

  “You can tell him anything, and he just goes home and takes a nap.”

• What a lifetime of gaslighting by other doctors feels like

  August 12 · Sarah Cohen Solomon and Linda Bluestein

  “If you have a connective tissue disorder, you can explain a huge percentage of the problems that people have.” (Linda Bluestein)

• Preserving humanity in the ICU

  August 13 · Sylvia Belda-Hofheinz

  “I firmly believe that one faces the suffering of patients as a person, not only as a professional, and that we cannot keep professional involvement at bay to prevent it from hurting us.”

• Are you ready to hear the truths about perfectionism?

  August 14 · Cindy Tsai

  “Once you see it, it’s like you’re shining a light on the fear, and then you can bring in the techniques, tools, and skills so that you can transcend and move past it.”

• A medical student’s advocacy journey

  August 15 · Scott Landman

  “In terms of take-home messages, I’m a big advocate for students.”

• Misaligned expectations lead to conflict, burnout, and disillusioned physician leaders

  August 16 · Amanda Brisebois

  “As physicians, we need to take charge of our careers.”

• What you need to know about monkeypox

  August 17 · Divya Srinivasan and Tejas Sekhar

  “I think the last thing anyone wants to hear is that there’s another virus that we have to keep track of and watch out for.” (Divya Srinivasan)

• To scribe or not to scribe? That is the question.

  August 18 · Janet Tamaren

  “There are a lot of ways you have to protect yourself.”

• How the culture of health care perpetuates racism

  August 19 · Jill Wener and Maiysha Clairborne

  “The take-home message is: This isn’t just about racism.” (Jill Wener)

• Tips for treating high-weight patients

  August 20 · Karen R. Koenig

  “That you’re not bad because you have biases.”

• Non-judgmental empathy in the exam room

  August 21 · Francisco M. Torres

  “Again, I think that it’s very hard to say that we are completely objective when we see the patient.”

• Melting the iron triangle: health equity in innovative health care landscapes

  August 22 · Nina Cloven

  “We have so far to go, so, so far to go.”

• Contract advice for physicians leaving the military

  August 23 · Dennis Hursh

  “I think the first thing is, there is no such thing as a standard contract.”

• Why you need to care about oral health

  August 24 · Cindy Roark

  “Realize that you can do things outside of your own primary care system that will very much help.”

• A doctor for LGBTQ+ health needs

  August 25 · Crystal Beal

  “I think I never found more joy and fulfillment in my work than I did when I started really showing up as my authentic self.”

• Getting an appointment with primary care is the Achilles’ heel of medicine

  August 26 · Danielle Ofri

  “We of course need and love our specialists to help with things that we can’t do, but the gratification, the gratitude of being in the primary care spot, there’s nothing like it.”

• Reversing the impact of the pandemic on childhood obesity

  August 27 · Teresa Fuller

  “I would say that, you know, a lot of clinicians are very involved in public health, and I think more of us need to be.”

• Activism is a part of medicine and we cannot remain neutral

  August 28 · Zhang

  “It’s also the fact that you should be involved in activism and advocacy, because, like it or not, science, medicine, and health care are becoming increasingly politicized.”

• Secrets for managing time, stress, and people

  August 29 · Nabil Fanous

  “The number one thing that we should do right now, it’s not one thing.”

• Combating antimicrobial resistance during COVID

  August 30 · Anne Meneghetti

  “It’s all on us, and it’s really an important issue of our time, and it’s only getting more serious.”

• How in silico drug development can improve patient outcomes

  August 31 · Tanja Dowe

  “So we need to stay open to each other, listen to the engineering side, listen to the medical side, and remember that we have a common goal, which is to improve patient outcomes.”

September 2022

• How technology can streamline tedious health care processes

  September 1 · Bevey Miner

  “We’ve got a way that we can solve this, so embrace it and start to test it.”

• If it’s not clinically pertinent, then stay out of my uterus [PODCAST]

  September 2 · Gail Miller

  “The other take-home message is that IVF is not the answer for everyone.”

• Skinny fat and normal weight obesity

  September 3 · Marc Nelson

  “Once you understand what your scientific body type is, have respect for your genetics, and then once you can get there, you can figure out the best science-based diet, exercise, and lifestyle for your specific body type.”

• How to make primary care rotations more appealing for students

  September 4 · Russell Phillips

  “You know, the opportunity to care for patients over a lifetime has been just incredibly satisfying, and again, I just can’t imagine doing anything else.”

• When it comes to feeding infants, support is best

  September 5 · Michelle Haggerty

  “We put a lot of pressure on families and especially mothers these days, and I think the more that we can do to support and acknowledge the fact that it’s hard, and not undermine that relationship, is really important.”

• Top tips for new interns

  September 6 · Vijay Rajput

  “Learn good judgment from the role models.”

• 5 things this allergist-immunologist will never do

  September 7 · Kara Wada

  “There are some things we can do that can be beneficial for allergy and our immune system health, but, you know, the devil is always in the details, and nuance is really important.”

• Contractual issues for female physicians

  September 8 · Dennis Hursh

  “Remember how important you are, remember how hard it is to recruit physicians, remember that it’s going to be very hard for them to replace you if you’re already in there, and just get what’s fair.”

• How you can donate effectively after tragedy

  September 9 · Recha Bergstrom

  “If you can donate a lot, that’s wonderful, but every little bit counts.”

• Antibodies are the future of cancer treatment

  September 10 · Eugene Chan

  “Ultimately, we went to med school because the crux of what we want to do is to help patients.”

• What to do if you’re involved in a medical malpractice lawsuit

  September 11 · Laura Fortner

  “It’s normal to be sued, and you’re not alone.”

• Negotiating employment contracts from a place of strength

  September 12 · Amanda Hill

  “If you don’t feel safe, if you’re in a war-torn area where you’re getting guns shot in your window, you can’t settle.”

• A nut allergy nightmare at 35,000 feet

  September 13 · Samara Friedman

  “They have kosher-friendly meals and vegetarian-friendly meals.”

• Why physicians require business skills

  September 14 · Curtis G. Graham

  “That website contains the 154 articles, each article specific to an area of marketing or an area of business, that accumulate the knowledge that they need to do what they have to do.”

• Why are women leaving medicine? Gaslighting.

  September 15 · Dawn Sears

  “Build your tribe and ask for it together.”

• How to stay off my operating table

  September 16 · Philip Ovadia

  “You are in charge of your health.”

• A neurosurgeon puts down the knife

  September 17 · Marc Arginteanu

  “So I think the take-home message is to have some level of introspection, to know where you’re at in your life journey, and to prepare for the inevitable changes around you.”

• Lessons from Radonda Vaught: Nurses need to raise their voices

  September 18 · Jessica Reeves

  “That’s our job, but you can’t do it at your own expense.”

• 4 steps to de-escalate hostile people

  September 19 · Ann F. Beach

  “Try really hard to understand where people are coming from.”

• Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID

  September 20 · Stephanie Marcovici

  “Take care of other people, even if you don’t know them.”

• Walk to reduce your loneliness and improve your well-being

  September 21 · Paula Rochon

  “We’re about to be in a society where we’re a super-aged society, where more than 20 percent of our population is going to be in that older age group.”

• We need a mental health infrastructure bill

  September 22 · Jennifer Reid

  “When you’re starting to battle with your own mind, that can really make it difficult for you to be out front doing your best work.”

• KevinMD on PermanenteDocs Chat

  September 23 · Alex McDonald

  “Dr. Pho, thank you so much for joining us.”

• A 15-minute relationship fix

  September 24 · Joel Block

  “Don’t make it all; you’ll get tired if you try it every night or something like that.”

• If you can’t connect the issues, think connective tissues

  September 25 · Linda Bluestein and Lauren Vasko

  “I would just say that if you’re a patient, keep fighting.” (Lauren Vasko)

• Practical solutions to prevent and prepare for hypoglycemia

  September 26 · Davida Kruger and Anne Peters

• We are all responsible for women physicians’ pay discrepancy

  September 27 · Sharon McLaughlin

  “If you don’t speak up for yourself, nobody else will.”

• A physician’s reflections with certainty in medicine

  September 28 · Mukund Gnanadesikan

  “But if you want to be sure, you should get a bone marrow biopsy." And I actually appreciated that he phrased it that way, because it was basically him saying, "I’m pretty certain, but not 100 percent certain.”

• Think about genetics in heart disease

  September 29 · Marc Semigran

  “You know, as physicians, there are many ways that we can help patients.”

• My postpartum blood pressure spike

  September 30 · Maria Petty

  “If you, your patient, or anybody you love is pregnant or up to six weeks postpartum and doesn’t feel right, please have the blood pressure checked.”

October 2022

• Insurance companies deny medical care. And that’s wrong.

  October 1 · Steve Cohen

  “You’re doing such important work representing patients, and it’s hard to go up against the bureaucracy of the insurance companies.”

• Your anesthesiologist cares for you

  October 2 · Audrey Shafer

  “I’m a teacher, and I would just like to encourage anyone who is considering going into medicine, who is in medical school, who is trying to decide what to do.”

• Premature babies grow up. It’s time to pay attention.

  October 3 · Deb Discenza

  “You can go to Crystal Ball Health, sign up, and join the movement.”

• Public health requires collective courage

  October 4 · Ira Memaj

  “I know this probably sounds a little boots, but I’m a firm believer in the power of the collective effort.”

• Meet the emergency physician who writes satire

  October 5 · Stephanie Benjamin

  “I would say writing is so incredibly powerful, whether it’s writing satire or journaling.”

• There are so many paths to financial freedom

  October 6 · Cobin Soelberg

  “I think what we do in health care is powerful and important and incredible in many ways, but it’s not the only thing that we need to be focusing on.”

• Who are the neurodiverse people in your life?

  October 7 · Krystal Sodaitis

  “I think the take-home would be that we are all neurodivergent.”

• Exploring the critical gaps in Canada’s health workforce planning

  October 8 · Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

  “I think what’s frustrating is for people to provide information and then for it to go nowhere.”

• Miscarriages in a post-Roe world

  October 9 · Kim M. Puterbaugh

  “We should be the people making the statements, rather than politicians who really don’t understand the collateral damage that this is causing.”

• A pediatrician reflects after a difficult conversation

  October 10 · Alexandra Seabury

  “I would say, at the risk of repeating myself, lead with love for your patients.”

• KevinMD on the Stay Off My Operating Table podcast

  October 11 · Jack Heald and Philip Ovadia

• What physicians can do in Ukraine

  October 12 · Michael Fine

  “The biggest take-home message is the importance of democracy itself.”

• End printed medical journals

  October 13 · Cynthia Anderson

  “The biggest one I would say is that waste is never a great way to spend our life.”

• How discovering trauma changed this doctor’s life

  October 14 · Zarya Rubin

  “You have to put your own oxygen mask on first before you can help others.”

• Emotional eating: Why you always want food

  October 15 · Katrina Ubell

  “If we don’t like our results, we have to look at how we think.”

• I wanted to care for people, so I became a direct primary care doctor

  October 16 · Allison Edwards

  “Number one is that direct primary care is absolutely worth looking into.”

• Hearing is connected to well-being

  October 17 · Amy Sarow

  “I just want people to be aware that hearing is an important part of your overall health.”

• Using simulations to improve medical decision making

  October 18 · Carlo Mahfouz

  “I would say, in health care especially, embracing ambiguity in a world which is so uncertain is a really big thing.”

• Boundaries for women physicians

  October 19 · Tammie Chang

• Food allergies are not a joke

  October 20 · Lianne Mandelbaum

  “Speak up to your patients that this is not OK, and talk about it.”

• How the internet broke parenting

  October 21 · Rebekah Diamond

  “We don’t have to be rigid and follow data completely, but we can use science.”

• How AI-based technology can help improve hospital capacity management

  October 22 · Pallabi Sanyal-Dey

  “There is a lot of opportunity in using certain tools, certain things within tech, whether it’s machine learning, AI, whatever you call it.”

• A cancer patient’s last wish

  October 23 · Farhan S. Imran

  “We have medical students, residents, and fellows.”

• Habits of highly effective interns

  October 24 · Sam Kant

  “If you have to make a phone call to a friend or your family, please do it.”

• Meet the primary care doctor who’s happy with his job

  October 25 · Rob Lamberts

  “I think we’ve gone from the pioneer stage.”

• Want to improve telehealth? Ask people with disabilities.

  October 26 · Christina Khou and Colleen Stiles-Shields

  “The take-home message is that telehealth works.” (Christina Khou)

• Giving language to empathy: lessons from palliative care

  October 27 · Varsha Venkatakrishna

  “So with every patient, name the emotion that you see in the room.”

• When patients want their doctors to heal

  October 28 · Mikkael A. Sekeres

  “Remember that this is as hard to do as any academic pursuit.”

• Why psychological explanations for long COVID are dangerous

  October 29 · V. Jo Hsu

  “So, thinking more carefully about the way that we engage things we don’t yet understand, so that we can move forward toward a world with more comprehensive knowledge.”

• A Hungarian Jewish man’s fight for freedom

  October 30 · Robert J. Wolf

  “I learned in medical school, way back in the day, one person said, "You may not like a patient, but you need to acknowledge it and move on and treat them like a patient." Patients don’t want to be there.”

• Can the Inflation Reduction Act build back medicine better and reduce climate change?

  October 31 · Chris Kager

  “Although a bill like this can appear simple, it’s 755 pages, so there is a lot of complexity to this.”

November 2022

• My sister went to the hospital seeking help. Instead, she died.

  November 1 · Sydney Lou Bonnick

  “Confidence, yes, confidence in your knowledge, your expertise, your ability.”

• Doctors are like hamsters running on an exercise wheel to nowhere

  November 2 · Banu Symington

  “Don’t needlessly frustrate and burn out physicians.”

• Who reads personal statements?

  November 3 · Maha Al-Ghafry

• Stop going through the motions and actually have the life you dreamed of

  November 4 · Allison Anderson

  “I think my biggest take-home is that we’ve all worked way too hard creating our careers, and life is far too short to just rinse and repeat forever.”

• My one case of COVID impacted dozens of lives

  November 5 · Diane Birnbaumer

  “Tell it to your family, tell it to your friends, write it down, send it somewhere, maybe even KevinMD.”

• Protect Black women’s maternal health

  November 6 · Cessilye R. Smith

  “Into the gray is where the real work is.”

• A doctor’s journey through constraints and creativity in the ER

  November 7 · Jay Baruch

  “What we do is hard, and the things that are so hard about it are some of the very things that we take for granted.”

• Mental Health Technologies: Revolutionizing technology within the behavior health care field

  November 8 · Ernie Wallerstein

• How a medical-legal consultant refuted a pre-existing medical condition argument

  November 9 · Armin Feldman

  “By the way, I’m very pleased to say I’ve been doing this for 15 years.”

• Toughness is not defined by a dollar amount

  November 10 · Jayson Greenberg

  “I would say to be self-aware, to take care of yourself, and there are times you have to put yourself first.”

• Addressing pain in patient experience surveys

  November 11 · Layla Parast

  “Take-home messages, I would say, would be: Be patient, be patient.”

• Health care is upside down

  November 12 · Henry Buchwald

  “From the epilogue, the end of the book, I’m going to read you the last two paragraphs.”

• Urging patience with patient self-advocacy

  November 13 · Murray Keith Wadsworth

  “The radiation oncologist said to me, "I’ve learned from you," and I took that to heart, and I have to be sure what I’m doing.”

• Keeping rural hospitals in the game

  November 14 · Richard Watson

  “I just want to say to clinicians: You have a voice, and you have a perspective that most people would not understand, and you need to be willing to share it.”

• Preparing for fall and winter: Importance of COVID-19 vaccination during the flu season

  November 15 · Filip Dubovsky

• What it means to leave clinical medicine

  November 16 · Deborah Bradley

  “There are so many things that you can do.”

• Why you should add advance directives to your college freshman’s checklist

  November 17 · Joanne Eason

  “From a clinician standpoint, advance care planning doesn’t have to be something that you go alone and do.”

• Meet the doctor who had a colonoscopy without anesthesia

  November 18 · Mike Neskovic

  “And I think we should be active.”

• We’re confusing resilience with grit

  November 19 · Amy King

  “They can address their own, by setting boundaries and decreasing burnout, and they can also feel really competent and confident working with their patients to address trauma and adversity.”

• How whole-person care can make us better healers

  November 20 · Wayne B. Jonas

  “You need to take care of yourself so you don’t burn out.”

• As doctors, caring is our poetry

  November 21 · Steven Kamajian

  “You can’t castrate our profession the way it’s being castrated without the loss of creativity.”

• KevinMD on the Co-Learning Clinician podcast

  November 22 · Brian Cohen

  “You definitely don’t need me to tell you that you, yes, absolutely, make a difference, and you have a lot of impact on the clinician community.”

• Top questions doctors ask health care attorneys

  November 23 · Amanda Hill

  “So if you can just take a moment and break them down and try to learn a little bit more about these areas, so you feel more confident, you’re going to have less burnout.”

• How this primary care doctor found his dream practice

  November 24 · John Machata

  “You don’t have to be a corporate master.”

• Science impacts our lives more profoundly than we appreciate

  November 25 · Iris Schrijver

  “And I would say that if we can believe that better health and well-being are within reach, and I truly believe it, then it is very much helped if we stand up for science, that we not let it erode.”

• Opioid-free orthopedic surgery

  November 26 · Michael Day

  “You’re starting on third base with that postoperative pain control.”

• What anticipatory grief feels like

  November 27 · Nancie Wiseman Attwater

  “And if you don’t have somebody to care for you, then maybe you need to work on that and find somebody to help you too.”

• A physician’s remedy for stress, anxiety, depression, and burnout

  November 28 · Joseph D. Pianka

  “We are in a field where every single day there’s something new, or 20 things new, that we pull up on our computer screens.”

• Let doctors in recovery be able to recover their careers

  November 29 · Jeffrey L. Fraser

  “So you’re not alone, you can recover, and you can get your career back.”

• Effective doctors need to be challenged

  November 30 · Jack Straub

  “I would say our greatest hardships and failures often pave the way for our greatest successes.”

December 2022

• Time constraints in physical therapy

  December 1 · Hannah T. Todd

  “My main take-home message is that your therapeutic alliance with your patient is going to make any medical intervention more effective.”

• Preventing prostate cancer with simple, proactive choices

  December 2 · Benny Gavi

  “If you have an area of interest or passion, pursue it.”

• Bulletproof backpacks: There’s more we can do

  December 3 · Lisa Park

  “My take-home message would be that we are not powerless.”

• What you need to know about sensory processing disorders

  December 4 · Lisa Yeh

  “Start thinking about this as a possibility.”

• When should you consider a Caribbean medical school?

  December 5 · Heidi Chumley

  “Perhaps the academic credentials that were necessary, or were thought to be necessary for so many years, perhaps it’s really a bit broader than that.”

• How women manage and mismanage their health

  December 6 · Susan Salenger

  “I want to make sure that doctors are aware of this chasm that does exist, or that can exist.”

• Leading an organizational culture change? Consider an apology first.

  December 7 · Beth Boynton

  “We deserve to work in environments where we feel safe and respected, where we respect each other, and where we have the resources that we need to do a good job, at least most of the time.”

• A personal mission to get obese patients on GLP-1 agonists

  December 8 · Christine Meyer

  “So look outside your comfort zone, because we can make a huge impact for patients.”

• An empowered woman’s guide to better health

  December 9 · Mary O’Connor

  “We also pull in any data that we can on women of color.”

• All I ever wanted to be was a nurse

  December 10 · Guest

  “I hope that this helps nursing culture change, because I do think we deserve more.”

• Every physician should own a timeshare

  December 11 · Cory Fawcett

  “I think when it comes to getting your best vacation values, and doctors love to have vacations, and they need them, I think you need to look at timeshares.”

• What my 10 year old is teaching me about boundaries

  December 12 · Yvonne Ator

  “The other thing that I really want to share is that you can’t do this alone.”

• You need to ask these questions to teens starting hormone therapy

  December 13 · Maria Mba Wright and Carol Reavis

  “So if we can decrease the odds of those risks and inform our patients to be more aware of their genes, that genes are more than looks and blood type, that’s the message we want to get out.” (Carol Reavis)

• Why Black and brown kids are falling through the cracks

  December 14 · Jeffrey Shahidullah

  “Families still operate in unjust and unfair systems of care, through health care and economic disadvantage, lack of safe and affordable housing, and lack of access to educational opportunities.”

• Nutrition’s impact on pain and obesity

  December 15 · Francisco M. Torres

  “First of all, you have to believe in yourself that you can change, no matter how bad you are.”

• What does it mean to truly be an ally?

  December 16 · Nkem Asianua

  “Just be an active listener, try to be open-minded when you can, and give yourself and others grace.”

• Physicians with mental illness shouldn’t hide

  December 17 · Alison Baum

  “It’s a really exciting time, and I know that more work is going to be done, but I would love for more physicians to come forward and share their stories, because I think that can only be good.”

• Primary Care 2.0: new thinking and practice redesign

  December 18 · Megan Mahoney

  “Primary care serves as the cornerstone of the patient-physician relationship, helping to reduce health disparities, influencing patient engagement, and improving health outcomes.”

• When doctors develop [patient] portal hypertension

  December 19 · Paul L. Fine

  “I guess the bigger message that I haven’t already touched on is just that in a job that we have, which can be burdensome and stressful and sad at times, it’s nice to have a sense of humor about it.”

• Physician contract horror stories

  December 20 · Dennis Hursh

  “A lot of these things were not obvious.”

• Wisdom from 50 years a doctor

  December 21 · Ronald Halweil

  “They have to be an example to the patients that they are taking care of themselves.”

• Coaching or mentorship: What is the solution for physicians?

  December 22 · Emilie Belley-Cote

  “I would say, don’t dismiss coaching based on preconceived ideas until you’ve tried it.”

• 26 hours in a day: the impossible math of providing quality care

  December 23 · Guest

  “I want to make sure that others know that primary care physicians are suffering, but that we are resilient, and we’re going to figure something out here, hopefully with the support of our colleagues.”

• Being a physician and a son at the same time

  December 24 · Amish H. Desai

  “It gives a moment of respite, right, for myself.”

• Building individual health equity

  December 25 · Paula Muto

  “It’s my family business, and I love my colleagues.”

• A physician’s postpartum depression

  December 26 · Fareeha Khan

  “I think it is OK to know the limitations that we are going through sometimes, and it’s OK to know that there are certain physiological processes that we are going through, and it’s OK to say no to things.”

• A national strategy on hunger, nutrition, and health

  December 27 · Janice Phillips

  “There’s this movement to achieve health equity, and addressing hunger, nutrition, and physical health is a part of that.”

• A medical lifeline for the aging male

  December 28 · Craig Bowron

  “I’d love to do a column sometime with you, to see what is part of growing older as an aging male.”

• EMDR therapy’s transformative power

  December 29 · Michael Baldwin

  “There are articles, videos, resource material, and lots of things there, including links to the organizations where you can find a therapist.”

• KevinMD interview by Cory Calendine, MD

  December 30 · Cory Calendine

  “You know, I’m going to have to go back and look at all my posts and see if they pass that test.”

• Leadership lessons from Mayo Clinic

  December 31 · Richard Winters

  “And that means oftentimes kind of releasing our own expertise and our own decision-making in the moment, and stepping back and figuring out how we can take care of systems as opposed to treating symptoms.”

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