The Podcast by KevinMD in 2026: every episode and take-home message

This page lists every episode of The Podcast by KevinMD published in 2026, 230 in all from January to October, 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 2026

• Pediatric respite homes provide a survival mechanism for struggling families

  January 1 · Jonathan Cottor and Kathleen Muldoon

  “We have to rethink and reframe this for children’s health care.” (Jonathan Cottor)

• Corporate greed and medical complicity fueled a $250,000 drug

  January 2 · Bharat Desai

  “Another thing which I have noticed in modern medicine is we have to return to physiology and pathophysiology and understand the real mechanism behind all these drugs.”

• Eldest daughter syndrome explains the hidden cause of physician burnout

  January 3 · Jessie Mahoney

  “And that we can make change, not from a place of blaming ourselves or blaming those individuals, but from really focusing on what is human and what is reasonable.”

• Why midlife men feel lost and exhausted

  January 4 · Kenneth Ro

  “Let’s just take the stigma out of the midlife crisis.”

• Artificial intelligence offers a lifeline to overwhelmed clinicians

  January 5 · Christina Johns

  “Don’t be afraid, but understand what you are getting.”

• Collaborative partnerships save rural health care from collapse

  January 6 · Jason Griffin

  “Please, we need to bring more awareness to this because we are headed down a path where if we don’t change soon, it could be catastrophic for us.”

• How physicians can preserve trust after medical errors

  January 7 · William Kanich

• Medical brain drain leaves vulnerable communities without life-saving care

  January 8 · Samah Khan

  “You should advocate for them by also advocating for audits, like of the algorithms, of the policies, of the insurance directories that failed them long before they reached you.”

• Sustainable legislative reform outweighs temporary discount programs

  January 9 · Leah Howard

  “We would love to have you engaged in our efforts.”

• Regulatory red tape threatens survival of rare disease patients

  January 10 · Gerald Vockley

  “I will also point out or finish with the thought that I had earlier, which is that rare diseases are individually rare but together are common.”

• Navigating the medical system requires specific life skills

  January 11 · Joyce Griggs and Alan P. Feren

  “Understand what is in that portal and how you can access that material and how you can communicate with your health care providers in between visits.” (Joyce Griggs)

• Economic reality tests the limits of subscription medicine

  January 12 · Dana Y. Lujan

  “Access improves care, but economics determines sustainability.”

• Personal memories reveal the transformation of HIV care over four decades

  January 13 · Janet A. Jokela

  “We must do so humbly, meet them where they are, and do the best we can to take care of them to the best of our ability.”

• Physician suicide represents a silent epidemic demanding urgent reform

  January 14 · Muhamad Aly Rifai

  “To my fellow physicians, I think you need to hold onto each other tight.”

• Capping student loans destroys the rural medical pipeline

  January 15 · Kenneth Botelho

  “We have the opportunity to make sure our voices are heard and that we can help continue to supply appropriate high-level care to our patients.”

• Escaping the golden cage of traditional medical practice to find joy again

  January 16 · Tracy Gapin

  “If I can do it, any doctor out there can do it.”

• Focusing on outcomes over novelty prevents AI failure in health care

  January 17 · Dave Wessinger

  “It is easy to kind of jump into it or kind of hold off, but I think you should engage and learn.”

• Silence is a survival mechanism that costs women their joy

  January 18 · Priya Panneerselvam

  “We can all grow together and take back women’s rights.”

• True peace in medicine requires courage not silence

  January 19 · Kathleen Muldoon

  “Making a human choice in a single interaction is a very powerful way to move with peace and humanity through your day.”

• Genetic testing requires more than just a binary result

  January 20 · Oluyemisi Famuyiwa

  “The take-home message is that it is not black and white.”

• Urological analysis of delayed cancer diagnoses in political figures

  January 21 · William Lynes

  “President Biden presented with metastatic high-grade prostate cancer, and this does not hold water.”

• Overcoming the economic barriers of fee-for-service medicine

  January 22 · Sarah Matt

  “Second, it is all about health care access.”

• Artificial intelligence demands that doctors become architects of digital health

  January 23 · Tod Stillson

  “My take-home message is that AI does not replace thinking.”

• Medicare cuts are destroying independent rural medical practices

  January 24 · Saravanan Kasthuri and Jason McKitrick

  “My take-home message is that we are finally getting the attention of policymakers in D.C. about the value of office-based care and why it is important to stabilize it.” (Jason McKitrick)

• Healing chronic illness requires treating the mind alongside the body

  January 25 · Shiv K. Goel

  “I think my take-home message is that it is not just for patients; it is for every physician listening.”

• Hidden financial dangers of wRVU thresholds in medical employment agreements

  January 26 · Dennis Hursh

  “If it is, you have to make sure that it is a reasonable productivity threshold so that you are actually going to get paid what they are seemingly promising to pay you.”

• Racial disparities in pancreatic cancer screening cost Black lives

  January 27 · Earl Stewart, Jr.

  “We need to understand that these inequities still exist.”

• World Health Organization reframes fertility care as a fundamental right

  January 28 · Oluyemisi Famuyiwa

  “The take-home message is that infertility is a real struggle.”

• Invoking your rights is the only way to survive a federal investigation

  January 29 · Muhamad Aly Rifai

  “Do not wait for the knock on the door to learn the rules.”

• Waking up at 4 a.m. is not required for success

  January 30 · Laura Suttin

  “Again, this physician that I mentioned worked best early in the morning.”

• Blaming younger doctors for setting boundaries ignores the broken system

  January 31 · Christie Mulholland

  “If we are serious about clinician well-being, we need to stop doing them.”

February 2026

• Stopping medication requires as much skill as starting it

  February 1 · Muhamad Aly Rifai

  “I think we need to start this conversation in America.”

• Medical expertise does not prevent caregiving grief

  February 2 · Barbara Sparacino

  “I want everybody to know that the vast majority of caregivers are under the age of 50.”

• Smart design choices improve patient care outcomes

  February 3 · Ziya Altug and Shirish Sachdeva

  “My take-home message is that patient care begins in the waiting room.” (Ziya Altug)

• Remote second opinions bridge the gap in rural cancer survival

  February 4 · Yousuf Zafar

  “What that means is we need to do a better job to educate all the stakeholders in the cancer care delivery system.”

• Primary care offers unexpected financial and emotional wealth

  February 5 · Jerina Gani

  “You have to enjoy your life, not only take care of other people.”

• AI censorship threatens the lifeline of caregiver support

  February 6 · Kathleen Muldoon

  “Ask if they are able to ask questions and if they have somebody local or are aware of groups.”

• Weaponizing food allergies in entertainment endangers lives

  February 7 · Lianne Mandelbaum

  “I want people to be able to talk to their children and adults that have these conditions and ask broad questions so you can actually find out if they are being bullied.”

• Simple choices prevent chronic disease

  February 8 · Shirisha Kamidi

  “Small consistent habits have a huge impact.”

• Doctors often struggle to separate professional advice from family love

  February 9 · Jessie Mahoney

  “My message is: One, as a physician, we cannot separate that out from our identity.”

• Teaching joy transforms the future of medical practice

  February 10 · Kim Downey and Kelly Holder and Sarah Hollander

  “We can easily throw it into the bucket of happiness.” (Kelly Holder)

• Business literacy empowers physicians to lead sustainable health systems

  February 11 · Kelly Bain

  “In doing so, we are going to improve the future, making better choices with the limited resources that we have to reduce waste, improve value, and improve access.”

• Tobacco cessation offers untapped revenue for medical practices

  February 12 · Edward Anselm

  “Once you do the math, you will find that you can delight your patients and delight your office managers with improved revenue.”

• Systemic strain creates the perfect environment for medical gaslighting

  February 13 · Alan P. Feren

  “You are co-creating together that history with the patient so that you can confirm a diagnosis and also firm up a partnership.”

• Sabbaticals provide a critical lifeline for sustainable medical careers

  February 14 · Christie Mulholland

  “Sabbaticals currently do not exist as a standard in practice in the medical system, and I hope that will change someday.”

• Community ownership transforms the broken health care system

  February 15 · David K. Cundiff

  “Our health care system is in a crisis right now like it has never been in before to this degree.”

• Waiting for the system to change causes burnout

  February 16 · Jessie Mahoney

  “I mean, my message would be to stop waiting but to set yourself up well for success.”

• Ambiguous billing rules threaten every doctor in practice

  February 17 · Muhamad Aly Rifai

  “I think physicians should be held to the American Medical Association Current Procedural Terminology, but not to punish physicians for following it in good faith while treating patients.”

• Early screening saves limbs from silent vascular disease

  February 18 · Wei Zhang

  “I just want to emphasize that the pathway from vascular disease to limb loss is long, but the impact of amputation is profound.”

• Locum tenens offers physicians a path to freedom

  February 19 · Trevor Cabrera

  “At any time we can make a change.”

• Bureaucracy now consumes most of your health care spending

  February 20 · Paula Muto

  “I think that is the one thing that we came out of this with is that the physicians are all together.”

• Asking what love would do transforms leadership

  February 21 · Jessie Mahoney

  “Let go of these previously held notions of what you should do and lean into this positive, "do no harm" energy.”

• Uterine aging plays a critical hidden role in IVF outcomes

  February 22 · Oluyemisi Famuyiwa

  “The take-home message is the uterus factor is real.”

• Modern technology must revolutionize the archaic physician job search

  February 23 · Rob Anderson

  “So the take-home message is that actually the modern job platform is here.”

• Community cooperatives offer a solution to the affordable health care crisis

  February 24 · David K. Cundiff

  “It is up to Americans to look at this once-in-a-multiple-generation opportunity to do what I think maybe it was Truman who tried to do: change the health care system.”

• Navigating the hype and hope of psychedelic medicine

  February 25 · Muhamad Aly Rifai

  “Clinicians should be involved, and we should protect people who feel desperate to receive treatment.”

• Orthorexia nervosa turns healthy habits into a harmful obsession

  February 26 · Sally Daganzo

  “I think the biggest one is what you mentioned earlier.”

• Physician father wrestles with daughter’s post-Dobbs future

  February 27 · Travis Walker

  “It involves ultimately recognizing that if we want there to be equality or equity, we must recognize that there are differences that we can have an influence on both as parents and physicians.”

• Primary care receives only five cents of every health care dollar

  February 28 · Jonathan Bushman

  “If we can advocate for them in a financial manner as well, I will say that that breeds even deeper trust with patients.”

March 2026

• Unpaid on-call shifts are driving doctors into early retirement

  March 1 · Corinne Sundar Rao

  “Call is labor and labor must be paid fairly, transparently, and with built-in rest protections.”

• "Disruptive" behavior is often a cry for help from depleted doctors

  March 2 · Jessie Mahoney

  “One is for the physicians to recognize that this isn’t a failure or a broken you and nothing to feel ashamed about, though that will be your natural response.”

• Ecovillages and organic farming could reverse global warming

  March 3 · David K. Cundiff

  “Three ecovillages on 17,000 acres would provide a demonstration of how you can model reversing climate change.”

• Rest is a holy practice: Reclaiming the soul of medicine

  March 4 · Roxanne Almas

  “I truly feel that rest is where growth happens.”

• Physician vulnerability and authenticity: How shared stories heal

  March 5 · Michael F. Myers

  “Even the ones who have gotten emails were so surprised.”

• AI could end the administrative nightmare for doctors

  March 6 · Shiv K. Goel

  “If we pair these tools with thoughtful leadership and strong boundaries, we can claim time, reduce burnout, and build a care system that serves both patients and clinicians far better than what we are living with now.”

• Unregulated botanical products pose hidden risks in convenience stores

  March 7 · Muhamad Aly Rifai

  “Show it to your physician and have a discussion because I think these are dangerous products and we need to alert our patients because they will cause significant addiction issues for the future.”

• Hospitals must establish safety guardrails before deploying AI

  March 8 · Harvey Castro

  “The more you use it, the more you will realize how much more efficient you can be and how you can help your patients.”

• AI redefines the physician’s role by reducing cognitive overload

  March 9 · Tod Stillson

  “I don’t think we need to fear that it is going to replace us.”

• Understanding the science behind embryo grading improves IVF decision making

  March 10 · Erica Bove

  “It is obviously a slow process, but you can sort of see if there are chaotic divisions and all those things.”

• How to master a new health care leadership role

  March 11 · Cristin Mount and Steve Lettrich

  “If you go to our free resources page, there is a free workbook you can download.” (Steve Lettrich)

• Heat therapy activates proteins that repair cells and protect the heart

  March 12 · Khushali Jhaveri

  “So I believe that when patients bring up this conversation, we should be willing to engage in those conversations.”

• Why "just relaxing" fails when your nervous system is stuck in survival mode

  March 13 · Claudine Holt

  “We can’t be the best at what we do if we don’t take care of ourselves first.”

• Wellness requires safe spaces outside the medical system

  March 14 · Jessie Mahoney

  “The message today is that I think it is an "and" situation.”

• Autonomous AI agents could strip the soul from medicine

  March 15 · Shiv K. Goel

  “I would say it again that AI should serve a healer instead of replacing the healer.”

• Emergency nurses struggle to turn off survival mode after the pandemic

  March 16 · Amy Dinaburg

  “The take-home message is that the coping mechanisms that kept us alive during the pandemic don’t automatically turn off when the crisis ends.”

• Shift from universal to optional vaccination risks normalizing preventable disease

  March 17 · Umayr R. Shaikh

  “The second take-home message is to physicians who are currently practicing.”

• Politics and fear have replaced science in U.S. pain management

  March 18 · Richard A. Lawhern

  “We have an excellent website fresh out that you can come to, to amplify on these themes.”

• Why early detection matters: Transforming lung cancer care

  March 19 · Lee James

• Criticism stings because doctors care deeply about their work

  March 20 · Jessie Mahoney

  “Notice your defaults and begin to work on these things because we can change them.”

• Insulin resistance is a survival mechanism, not a broken system

  March 23 · Kevin Whitt

  “The take-home message is that the individual in the United States must understand that insulin resistance is a fabrication and it really doesn’t exist.”

• Why measuring muscle mass matters more than tracking your weight

  March 24 · Maureen McBeth

  “The take-home message is that GLP-1s are a phenomenal tool.”

• Proactive monitoring can prevent emergencies by catching heart signals early

  March 25 · Chris Darland

  “I think they will grow up in a wildly different health care space than I did, and for sure than my grandpa did.”

• Why hormonal shifts make traditional dieting ineffective for midlife women

  March 26 · Marsha Shepherd Whitt

  “Focus less on suppressing intake and more on restoring regulation.”

• Why physicians must reclaim their right to pause

  March 27 · Mary Wilde

  “If you are going to attend to anything like a team or a service department at the hospital, don’t forget to attend to your own heart.”

• Finding peace by unhooking from ego and achieving a loving presence in medicine

  March 30 · Tammie Chang

  “You are going to be OK, and you can be OK no matter what.”

• Why physicians must lead the design of artificial intelligence in health care

  March 31 · Tod Stillson

  “How this should go down is we should be supported with our clinical decisions and given information that allows us to rapidly assimilate and make decisions.”

April 2026

• Reclaiming human dignity as the foundation of medical practice

  April 1 · Janet A. Jokela

  “Two, dig deep and find that humanity in that way that you want to or you need to express in your daily work and in all aspects of your life.”

• True metabolic healing requires more than just prescribing expensive peptides

  April 2 · Shiv K. Goel

  “Patients may open by asking if you can prescribe BPC-157 or semaglutide, but that is often a doorway into their deeper fears about aging, energy, weight, and time.”

• Why hospital systems fail to notice the human behind the bill

  April 3 · Eric Goldfarb

  “Common sense is still the most powerful diagnostic tool in the room, and it requires someone willing to say that we need to look at this again.”

• Why weight regain is a predictable biological response after stopping GLP-1s

  April 6 · Jessica Duncan

  “My second take-home message is when you think about your patients, always individualize your plan.”

• Why loving organizations are the secret to ending burnout in medicine

  April 7 · Apurv Gupta

  “I think my take-home message to the physicians on this platform is particularly: Don’t lose hope.”

• Why physicians pay more in taxes and how to reclaim your income

  April 8 · Logan Foltz

  “Income that you earn from labor is not as beneficial as income you can get from ownership and from investment.”

• Finding peace and reclaiming humanity within a broken health care system

  April 9 · Jessica Singh

  “Have that space of self-compassion and honor yourself for what you have been doing.”

• Safety-net dentistry restores human dignity for patients recovering from severe addiction

  April 10 · Charan Tej Bobba

  “First, before you treat the patient, you have to meet the patient.”

• Oral Wegovy sounds easy, but the reality is more complicated

  April 13 · Shiv K. Goel

  “My message to my fellow physicians is that the molecule is not the whole story.”

• Silence isn’t neutrality: Why medical students can’t wait to find their voice

  April 14 · Kathleen Muldoon

  “I think it is important to be present and stay curious.”

• Why your patient isn’t filling that prescription (and won’t tell you)

  April 15 · Adam Cunningham

  “You need to understand if your patient can afford the care that you suggest, whether it is investigations or treatments.”

• Why I would never compromise on withdrawing care until I saw it firsthand

  April 16 · Jonah Rocheeld

  “Always try to compromise to do what is best for the patient at all costs within those confines, because at the end of the day, that is what we are supposed to do as physicians.”

• Clinicians are failing at value-based care because no one taught them the system

  April 17 · Kenneth Botelho

  “If we want a value-based care system to fully succeed, we can’t just change how we measure care.”

• I have cerebral palsy and I’m a doctor. Here’s what policy cuts mean for patients like me.

  April 20 · Ashna Shome and Ashna Shome

  “My take-home message is basically that disabled people exist and matter, and disabled doctors exist and matter.”

• Why cervical cancer screening drops after menopause, and why that’s dangerous

  April 21 · Nenrot S. Gopep

  “Some take-home messages would be that cervical cancer risk doesn’t disappear after menopause.”

• Gradually, then suddenly: Dr. Robert Wachter on health care’s giant AI leap

  April 22 · Robert Wachter

  “The cost of health care is one of the big problems in our system, so we have to work to see whether it can lower costs.”

• Silence at the chessboard changed how I talk to patients

  April 23 · Jay Pendyala and Jonathan Berg

  “I think it would be a missed opportunity if I did not talk about and promote chess in this moment.” (Jonathan Berg)

• His mother-in-law heard "cancer," went home, and was dead within a year

  April 24 · Alan P. Feren

  “Remember that before they leave your office and the clinical encounter, make sure that they understand what is most likely and what is still under consideration.”

• She donated 2,000 hours of unpaid labor before she even noticed

  April 27 · Jessie Mahoney

  “My take-home message would be to track your extra hours.”

• He declined routine X-rays and was denied a dental cleaning

  April 28 · Aaron S. Rosenberg

  “So let’s bring nuance back into the conversation where possible and make a distinction between recommended and required.”

• She was learning to keep others breathing while losing her own air

  April 29 · Lyndsay Hoy

  “First is that women should not need luck, privilege, or a medical degree to navigate a rare diagnosis that will shape the rest of their lives.”

• 2026 cholesterol guidelines: LDL goals, Lp(a), and coronary calcium scoring

  April 30 · Seth J. Baum

May 2026

• AI is already reading your dental X-rays and you probably have no idea

  May 1 · Sowjanya Gunukula

  “This is not about making dentistry more technological.”

• I Googled my own name and a corporate clinic I’ve never worked at appeared

  May 2 · Stephanie Waggel

  “It’s going to be more like an assembly line and more just like a number driven factory than the olden, the olden days 10 years ago, when you go and you can actually talk to your doctor.”

• I ate plain rice and chicken for six months because no one explained celiac

  May 4 · Kamiah Gibson

  “Search into the community of people with celiac disease.”

• Your waiting room does what social media cannot

  May 5 · Farid Sabet-Sharghi

  “So we need to see that sense of comradery across time and also throughout the world.”

• Patients don’t need certainty, they need your reasoning out loud

  May 6 · Alan P. Feren

  “I think the biggest take-home message is explore and try to implement the five disciplines.”

• Your doctor saved your life but won’t return your call

  May 7 · Jeffrey Junig

  “You have to have a boundary, but they feel like family in a way.”

• No nurse is better than a bad nurse in your child’s home

  May 8 · Ashley Youngdale

  “I think the take-home for me is that the idea of oversight is powerful, but the enforcement of it often isn’t.”

• Bolus or drip? What the DOSE trial actually showed about heart failure

  May 11 · Jeff Greenwald and Kathy May Tran and Benjamin Geisler

  “You see some deeper aspects of certain things, but you can really bring them back to the patient.” (Benjamin Geisler)

• You can’t stent a capillary: Why aging starts in your smallest blood vessels

  May 12 · Kenneth Ro

  “I think we can kind of focus on how important exercise is.”

• One silly mistake can sabotage your medical career before it starts

  May 13 · Vance Lehman

  “The good news is that you can navigate the hidden curriculum with lots of easy to do small steps that have big downstream positive effects.”

• Why a rheumatologist asks every doctor to remember being six years old

  May 14 · Brian Sayers

  “And even small steps you can do towards trying to realign with that dream you had when you were younger.”

• Why your patient’s biggest barrier isn’t pain. It’s walking through the door.

  May 15 · Kaushal Shah

  “Just wanted to make sure that, just dentistry is all about, as I told you, just all about the patient’s experience.”

• 14 patients studied, thousands injecting: the peptide evidence gap

  May 18 · Vikas Patel

  “So I think we have to be very educated on the things that our patients are reading online and the information that they’re getting from their friends and neighbors.”

• When what’s in the envelope doesn’t match what you expected

  May 19 · Kathleen Muldoon

  “And I just really hope that we can continue having these conversations.”

• 2 a.m. is a biological stress test no one talks about

  May 20 · Chinyelu E. Oraedu

  “It’s kind of a season in your life, and you have to have a reason that you do it.”

• DOT ruling protects peanut allergies but not eggs, sesame, or milk

  May 21 · Lianne Mandelbaum

  “Be kind to people who have food allergies, even if they look normal.”

• Primary care, bloodletting, and what medicine got right

  May 22 · Robert C. Smith

  “Medicine has been incredibly successful and we must never forget that.”

• GLP-1s, weight loss, and the inflammation tests your patient needs

  May 25 · Richard M. Fleming

  “We can use those, but they don’t tell us what the actual disease is, what’s going on in the patient.”

• When a code blue on the psychiatry unit ends in a police interview

  May 26 · Devina Maya Wadhwa

  “Being vulnerable about our struggles in medicine is extremely important.”

• After Match Day, orthopedic surgery is finally open to every kind of surgeon

  May 27 · John Klibanoff

  “We, within the field, welcome every single viewpoint and vision that you can bring because it’s from those varied viewpoints that we get the next advances.”

• Metrics got you into medicine and are making you unhappy in it

  May 28 · Ben Reinking

  “And so if we take that developmental mindset into our lives and into our careers, I think many people will be happier in what they’re doing.”

• One hallucinated citation can end your expert witness career

  May 29 · Tracy Liberatore

  “They could not separate what they had concluded from what the machine had produced.”

June 2026

• MAHA has the right diagnosis and the wrong treatment plan

  June 1 · Shiv K. Goel

  “Second, we have to be explicit that evidence outranks ideology, whether that’s on vaccines, pesticides, or chronic diseases.”

• Why every new health care tool keeps making the job harder

  June 2 · Grace E. Terrell

  “Think about a future where you’re able to actually be about the patient again, and that future has to do with getting the workflows right and connected technologies as opposed to individual point solutions.”

• What happens when physicians cede AI to direct-to-consumer startups

  June 3 · Tod Stillson

  “To embrace it and govern it and use it as a capacity multiplier in their clinical practice.”

• Why AI has outpaced medical malpractice law, and what to do about it

  June 4 · Richard E. Anderson

  “I think first of all, it’s a pleasure to be with you again.”

• You don’t have to feel called to medicine to be a good doctor

  June 5 · Christie Mulholland

  “And if you’re interested in exploring this even more deeply, consider working with a coach, because these powerful questions are exactly why coaching can enhance career satisfaction.”

• 20 years inside a Medicare Advantage insurer, and who actually pays

  June 8 · Timothy Bulat

  “I think, first, Medicare Advantage is absolutely a valuable part of the Medicare program in our country.”

• Why AI cybersecurity is now a patient safety issue

  June 9 · Francisco M. Torres and Purab Patel

  “Cybersecurity is now a patient safety issue and we need to be concerned.” (Francisco M. Torres)

• How to lead a team through uncertainty without breaking trust

  June 10 · Jess Bunin and George Mount

  “Because you can almost see it in the room as the patient kind of just relaxes.” (George Mount)

• Physician burnout is not your fault, and here’s why blaming yourself keeps you stuck

  June 11 · Lisa Rubiano

  “And when you reclaim your own autonomy and your own power and take responsibility for what you can change, things do change, and for the better.”

• Why the risk aversion that makes you a good doctor wrecks your finances

  June 12 · Stanley Liu

  “Both are great paths to be in, and either way, the more you can do financially to build that objective risk capacity, the better you can sustain a very satisfying career.”

• Why your ER doctor doesn’t know your medical history

  June 14 · Hamad Husainy

  “I think AI is here, and we all know it’s here.”

• Low T treatment is silently destroying sperm counts

  June 15 · Erica Bove

  “We have to look at the whole picture.”

• Why most methylene blue cases came from anesthesia, not pills

  June 16 · Steven E. Warren

  “And to the physicians and providers out there, for them to do some studying themselves, read about it, understand it, ask questions, and then together we can make some progress in longevity and keeping us feeling better as we age.”

• What’s actually behind medical students using AI

  June 17 · Kathleen Muldoon

  “And I think we need to consider whether.”

• Why doctors burn out connecting with patients, and how to fix it

  June 18 · Kim Downey and Eva Minkoff

  “I’d say my takeaway is that medicine doesn’t need physicians who shut down.” (Eva Minkoff)

• Why the people funding health care startups have never treated a patient

  June 19 · Harsha Moole

  “I think an important point to note is we as physicians, we spend our entire careers solving for clinical problems.”

• Dark money is writing your health care laws

  June 20 · Richard A. Lawhern

  “If you’re a chronic pain patient or a clinician who treats them, you’re not alone.”

• Why "failed cycle" and "poor responder" wound infertility patients

  June 22 · Oluyemisi Famuyiwa

  “Take-home message, we cannot supplement our way out of a biological phenomenon.”

• How Medicare is breaking nursing home care

  June 23 · Steve Buslovich

  “I would say that I think it’s really exciting to think about how the use of AI can accelerate some of this data collection and reporting capabilities.”

• How true crime is radicalizing your kids online

  June 24 · Matthew Turner

  “For the clinicians out there, I want to let them know that there are a lot of resources, a lot more resources with each passing month that are coming out.”

• How Medicare’s new cut is closing private doctor practices

  June 25 · John Birkmeyer

  “No, I think we kind of emphasized what physicians who are concerned about this issue can do, but I just want to make a plug for the importance of independent medical groups in general.”

• Patient involvement and the future of clinical research

  June 26 · Niharika Singh

  “We need to keep our patients safe, help them come out of disease, and treat them well.”

• Why physician is not the same as provider

  June 29 · Janet A. Jokela

  “Two, other health care professionals such as nurses and other folks are health care professionals or clinicians.”

• How immersive travel can reshape identity and habits

  June 30 · Stacey Funt

  “Whether it’s a trip across the globe or a walk around the block, when we allow ourselves to see the world differently, our whole life can change.”

July 2026

• When local doctors disappear, patients pay the price

  July 1 · Devin Zarkowsky and Jason McKitrick

  “You know, takeaway here, physicians, we need to unite.” (Devin Zarkowsky)

• Why physicians stay in jobs they could afford to leave

  July 2 · Stanley Liu

  “Both are great paths to be in, and either way, the more you can do financially to build that objective risk capacity, the better you can sustain a very satisfying career.”

• How fear of the stock market quietly costs doctors a million dollars

  July 3 · Hernan Moscoso Boedo

  “Don’t give up the fruit of that work by following wrong advice, by being fearful of the unknown, by claiming that you just don’t understand.”

• Why your treatment plan falls apart after you leave the doctor

  July 6 · Alan P. Feren

  “There’s a big difference between assigning responsibility and sharing responsibility.”

• Numbness after a mastectomy no one warns you about

  July 7 · Emily Hansen

  “I would just say for anyone who’s listening, the first step is even just being aware.”

• Why patient engagement platforms must reduce staff burden

  July 8 · Kevin J. Campbell

  “I would just say, you can engage and educate your patients in a way that does not have to overburden the office staff.”

• Why medicine makes doctors feel they are never enough

  July 9 · J. C. Sue

  “We have simply stepped into a role in which we can be in a unique service position to others.”

• How credentialing fears harm physician mental health

  July 10 · Namit Choksi

  “We are here to support you all day, every day.”

• Why the cure for physician burnout is seeing fewer patients

  July 13 · Jerina Gani

  “I have a dream for all primary care physicians.”

• Why doctors hide their own depression until it nearly breaks them

  July 14 · Kenneth Scott Burnham

  “We need to provide them guidance, care, support.”

• How to fix health care without Medicare for All

  July 15 · Ken Terry

  “We have to bring the entire system together to save health care.”

• Cardiac arrest is a human problem, not a training problem

  July 16 · Michael Peck

  “Every one of us has limits, and we have to know them.”

• Medicare will pay you to keep patients well. Most practices miss it.

  July 17 · Rachel Yates

  “It’s not because anyone is doing anything wrong.”

• Why women doctors get sick and blame themselves for it

  July 20 · Jessie Mahoney

  “I think the biggest take-home message is that we should probably stop calling it a curse and start looking at what the reality is, because a curse is just something that is out of our control.”

• What no one teaches you about fertility before you need help

  July 21 · Oluyemisi Famuyiwa

  “Please get information as soon as you can.”

• A doctor’s kindness changed how my wife survived cancer

  July 22 · Kim Downey and Randy McNeely

  “I firmly believe that love in the process is better than any prescription drug you can give.” (Randy McNeely)

• Doctors who ignore AI will get left behind

  July 23 · Augusta Uwah

  “When your hospital or your employer is talking about AI, make sure you are in the room.”

• Doctors burn out from a guilt that was never theirs

  July 24 · Christie Mulholland

• Your kidney never fully recovered from surgery, and the labs won’t show it

  July 27 · John Erbey

  “Make sure they leave with the kidney they came in with.”

• What ChatGPT revealed when a medical student asked it to analyze him

  July 28 · Jack Tiller

  “Don’t let others influence who you are or what decisions you make, and just don’t be afraid of judgment.”

• Big Pharma’s drug marketing got stealthy, and you are the target

  July 29 · Martha Rosenberg

  “Be cynical, because really good medicine, as you know, takes a while.”

• Why your sinus infections keep coming back, and antibiotics may be the reason

  July 30 · Franklyn R. Gergits

  “If you have a question, then the ear, nose, and throat doctors and the allergy specialists will be able to lend a hand and give you that information.”

• PCOS was never just about your ovaries

  July 31 · Oluyemisi Famuyiwa

  “Take-home message: If your periods are irregular, if you’re having any symptoms like we’ve talked about, come see a doctor who can help you put it all together, because the appropriate diagnosis helps you pick the appropriate treatment.”

August 2026

• Bedsore lawsuits are won and lost on the record

  August 3 · Tracy Liberatore

  “Make sure you are laying that all out for your attorney and applying your analysis to those rules.”

• Burnout blames the doctor for a broken system

  August 4 · Gus W. Krucke

  “One is, let’s not confuse metrics with meaning.”

• Nurses are getting assaulted at work and no one listens

  August 5 · June Garen and Carleigh Beriont

  “My take-home message is just thank you to June for being so willing to share your story, and not just that, but being willing to organize around it.” (Carleigh Beriont)

• He spoke up in residency, then got walked out in front of his patients

  August 6 · Vasilii Khammad

  “And when you see that something unfair is happening and something unlawful, then you do not just keep your head down, but sometimes you have to speak up.”

• When good parenting looks different across cultures

  August 7 · Najat Fadlalla

  “I think my main take-home message is that we all need to examine our own biases.”

• When patients ask for a knee surgery brand they don’t understand

  August 10 · Cory Calendine

  “And then, and only then, find someone you can trust, a physician, a surgeon, who will sit down and talk to you and customize the care to you.”

• Doctors are now the second opinion, AI is the first

  August 11 · Tod Stillson

  “You know, health care is being built, or it’s always been built, around access.”

• Why soldiers are athletes and their bodies pay for it

  August 12 · Ann Lebeck

  “I think we all genuinely mean it, and we should when we say that.”

• Medical students aren’t cheating on their essays: They’re afraid

  August 13 · Kathleen Muldoon

  “We don’t do a great job on self-reflection, on understanding who you are.”

• When your labs are normal but you still feel sick

  August 14 · Shiv K. Goel

  “We can only show them the light.”

• Why your doctor never asks if intimacy still matters to you

  August 17 · Michael Reed

  “Take-home message number one: Let’s start asking the question.”

• Who should own the AI that doctors built

  August 18 · Sonal Patel

  “Physicians, please do not be afraid of it.”

• A wrong diagnosis that almost killed a doctor

  August 19 · Victoria Rundus

  “I started doing some fiction writing and wrote a book entitled "Ava" under my pen name Victoria Dillon, and it explores the intersections of politics and science.”

• A back procedure that can weaken a young spine

  August 20 · Francisco M. Torres

  “You need to question what you are doing.”

• Your leaky gut tests aren’t fixing you

  August 21 · Shiv K. Goel

  “So my take-home message is for the physicians out there: Listen to your patients.”

• Leaving her practice to reinvent herself from scratch

  August 24 · Samantha Nazareth

• Doctors and patients are not the enemy here

  August 25 · Jordan Grumet

  “Basically what I want people to get from this book is that you can change things.”

• Why telemedicine should be a career, not a side gig

  August 26 · Suneer Chander

  “So I’d say you should really focus on developing the skill set when you’re transitioning into a new career.”

• How a doctor with no coding background built his own bedside AI tools

  August 27 · Ahmed Elsonbaty

  “Don’t wait for engineering or Silicon Valley to help you.”

• What a dragonfly teaches physicians about burnout and self-compassion

  August 28 · Gita Balakumar

  “We strengthen it, and we have to accept how other people function.”

• Why overdiagnosis is failing the students it claims to help

  August 31 · Richard A. Lawhern

September 2026

• She spent weeks on her personal statement. Then someone asked why she didn’t use AI.

  September 1 · Kathleen Muldoon

  “And so, as AI becomes more and more skilled at representing human voice, just remember to look for the person behind the writing.”

• When you have five doctors and no one is directing your care

  September 2 · Alan P. Feren

  “My take-home message is that when direction is missing, patients are forced, in essence, to make clinical judgments that are outside their capability and outside the clinical setting.”

• Ketamine for depression: what actually makes it dangerous

  September 3 · Jim Ellwood

  “We didn’t get anywhere with what we tried, but he stayed with me and said, "Look, let’s just keep looking if we can find a balance point." Also remember, even with a medication, the best thing is the combination.”

• Health insurance mergers are why your doctor is leaving

  September 4 · Rita Agarwal

  “And that becomes a patient safety problem, because if institutions close or are unable to provide specialty or subspecialty care, patients’ care gets delayed, and that can lead to more complications.”

• Addiction stigma costs lives, and one word can change that

  September 5 · Devika Bhushan

  “I think that sometimes when we think about conditions like stigma, we perceive them as something that’s very soft and unknowable, and something that can’t be shifted readily.”

• Bloated from all that fiber? You added it too fast.

  September 6 · Lisa Talamini

  “I think again, the idea of health optimization is a beautiful concept, but again, it shouldn’t be a pursuit of perfection.”

• Why weak branding is costing private practices patients and talent

  September 7 · Ashley Gay

  “They will judge you on how your website functions, how your logo looks.”

• Why value-based care hasn’t lowered your medical bills

  September 8 · Jeanne Cohen

  “I think the future of health care is bright.”

• Leaving medicine isn’t a loss, it’s a translation problem

  September 9 · Shveta Gupta

  “You can take these little actions and really get to the next steps of your identity formation that you just didn’t know existed beyond your white coat.”

• Your AI judges patients by how they write, not their symptoms

  September 10 · Craig Hauben

  “My take-home message is simply that you cannot verify what you can’t see, so you need to learn what they can’t do well, and you have to assume that the average does not necessarily represent the individual.”

• Antibiotics for sinusitis without a real diagnosis

  September 11 · Franklyn R. Gergits

  “Sometimes, getting the patients off to us, we can do that endoscopic culture.”

• Hurricane season is a fifth season, and medicine has to plan for it

  September 12 · Angela C. Johnson

  “But I think it’s also an incredible time to look at a bigger-picture view.”

• Doctors were told to be blind to the cost of care

  September 13 · Narinder Singh Parhar

  “Then we need to take care of the health of our family, both physical, mental, and emotional.”

• A cure for aggressive lymphoma exists, and most patients never get it

  September 14 · Manali Kamdar and Paolo Strati

  “So the first one is that working together is going to be the key to success.” (Paolo Strati)

• Genetic test results, social media advice, and an irreversible choice

  September 15 · Stephanie Waggel

  “One is that whenever you’re looking at any piece of information, even if it’s research published in a reputable journal, you can’t just believe exactly what it says.”

• Burnout isn’t only about autonomy, it’s about your bank account

  September 16 · Stanley Liu

  “So building a courage fund should be part of a broader financial plan that ensures you can not only create career flexibility, but also sustain it.”

• Insurance companies are being sued over directories that aren’t real

  September 17 · Steve Cohen

  “Get the care you need, and don’t be afraid to ask for them to cover what you’re paying for and what you deserve.”

• Why acne, chin hair, and irregular cycles are more than an ovary problem

  September 18 · Oluyemisi Famuyiwa

  “I think the take-home message is that polycystic ovary syndrome, now PCOS, is more than just the ovaries.”

• Blaming the doctor is cheaper than fixing the record system

  September 19 · Dennis Hursh

  “Like I said, if the FAA were run the same way, none of us would fly.”

• Retirement isn’t the end of medicine, it’s a second act

  September 20 · Andrea Hayes

  “After retirement, you have time to really focus on these other things, and it can be very joyful and uplifting.”

• Why business pressure and threats ended a career she loved

  September 21 · Christine King

  “I also think we need to focus on safeguarding and protecting health care workers, and also be more serious about preventative medicine going forward, especially in the area of vaccines and maternal health.”

• Making AI work for physicians

  September 22 · Seema Verma

• Why exhaustion can make you see things that aren’t there

  September 23 · Chinelle Miller

  “But definitely seek help if you need to.”

• Doctors’ kids miss them, and the family builds its own fixes

  September 24 · Alyssa Kressel

  “I think, like I just mentioned, medicine is really much more than one person’s profession.”

• Staying salaried may now be the riskier bet for doctors

  September 25 · Oren Fass

  “My take-home message would be that agentic AI is already here.”

• Food allergies are treated differently, airline by airline

  September 26 · Lianne Mandelbaum

  “Remember that a passenger can suffer anaphylaxis for the first time and may not be carrying their own medication.”

• Some relationships work like medicine. Others work like a diagnosis.

  September 27 · Shiv K. Goel

  “A healthier model of medicine is one where a clean lab panel opens a conversation instead of closing it.”

• Why patients stop trusting doctors who listened to them

  September 28 · Alan P. Feren

  “For physicians, make sure that you are listening as carefully as you can to the patient’s story, because the careful listening makes the story clinically usable.”

• Amazon and Uber set the bar that primary care is judged against

  September 29 · Payam Zamani

  “I think my take-home message is again what we’ve already talked about.”

• Why more medicine isn’t making us healthier

  September 30 · Narinder Singh Parhar

  “Two, we should of course be active listeners to the patient.”

October 2026

• Diagnosing the data: Applying clinical rigor to AI adoption

  October 1 · Eric Jennings

• Loneliness, not weakness, is driving women out of medicine

  October 2 · Cassie Burton Greenbaum

  “We feel isolated, and no one built that infrastructure to keep us connected.”

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