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Burnout, difficult patients, and the question that changes both [PODCAST]

Most patients called difficult have a reason nobody has asked about. Every chart carries labels, and the labels rarely carry the person. Stella Awua-Larbi is a nephrologist who has practiced in the Chicago suburbs for more than 15 years. This…

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Most patients called difficult have a reason nobody has asked about. Every chart carries labels, and the labels rarely carry the person. Stella Awua-Larbi is a nephrologist who has practiced in the Chicago suburbs for more than 15 years. This episode is based on her article “The person behind …

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Burnout, difficult patients, and the question that changes both [PODCAST]

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AI, standing orders, and the 9 p.m. call medicine still cannot handle [PODCAST]

A patient with a urinary tract infection calls at 9 p.m. and gets told to call back in the morning. Frustrated patients default to the emergency room instead. Tod Stillson is a family physician, health care entrepreneur, and founder and…

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A patient with a urinary tract infection calls at 9 p.m. and gets told to call back in the morning. Frustrated patients default to the emergency room instead. Tod Stillson is a family physician, health care entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of ChatRx. This episode is based on his article …

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AI, standing orders, and the 9 p.m. call medicine still cannot handle [PODCAST]

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Patients on ventilators have things to say, and no way to say them [PODCAST]

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Only 4 in 10 caregivers say a doctor asked how the patient prefers to communicate. The patients who cannot answer often have the most to report. Chris Ross is a speech-language pathologist and school administrator. This episode is based on…

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Only 4 in 10 caregivers say a doctor asked how the patient prefers to communicate. The patients who cannot answer often have the most to report. Chris Ross is a speech-language pathologist and school administrator. This episode is based on her article “Communication access is a patient safety issue,” …

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Patients on ventilators have things to say, and no way to say them [PODCAST]

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How to be grateful when you are not a grateful person [PODCAST]

Gratitude is easy to preach and hard to feel on a bad day. One physician spent a 40-year career learning to practice it on purpose. Scott Abramson is a neurologist and author. This episode is based on his article "A…

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Gratitude is easy to preach and hard to feel on a bad day. One physician spent a 40-year career learning to practice it on purpose. Scott Abramson is a neurologist and author. This episode is based on his article “A physician’s three lessons on gratitude in medicine,” published on …

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How to be grateful when you are not a grateful person [PODCAST]

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Stop calling it burnout: COVID denial and the wounds ER doctors carry [PODCAST]

An emergency physician bought a new iPad and found 53 phone numbers he had forgotten were there. Each one was a family he put on a video call to say goodbye before he intubated their loved one. Howie Mell is…

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An emergency physician bought a new iPad and found 53 phone numbers he had forgotten were there. Each one was a family he put on a video call to say goodbye before he intubated their loved one. Howie Mell is an emergency physician with a master’s degree in public health. …

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Stop calling it burnout: COVID denial and the wounds ER doctors carry [PODCAST]

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Doctors on social media should ask this question first [PODCAST]

Your patients can see everything you post. Tali Lando was posting funny videos from her office while two of her young patients lay in the hospital struggling to recover, and it left her torn. She is a pediatric otolaryngologist and…

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Your patients can see everything you post. Tali Lando was posting funny videos from her office while two of her young patients lay in the hospital struggling to recover, and it left her torn. She is a pediatric otolaryngologist and airway surgeon. This episode is based on her article ” …

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Doctors on social media should ask this question first [PODCAST]

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Trusting the lab over the patient is the new medical error [PODCAST]

The lab says the potassium is critically low. You walk in, and the patient looks completely fine. Duane Penshorn is an emergency physician and author. This episode is based on his article "Automation bias is the new medical error," published…

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The lab says the potassium is critically low. You walk in, and the patient looks completely fine. Duane Penshorn is an emergency physician and author. This episode is based on his article “Automation bias is the new medical error,” published on KevinMD. He explains that automation bias got its …

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Trusting the lab over the patient is the new medical error [PODCAST]

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Hospice waits on a court order when no family can speak for you [PODCAST]

A man is dying. He cannot speak, and no one in his life can say what he would have wanted. Kirsten Engel is a palliative medicine physician, and Medha Tripathi is a health writer and incoming Fulbright research scholar. This…

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A man is dying. He cannot speak, and no one in his life can say what he would have wanted. Kirsten Engel is a palliative medicine physician, and Medha Tripathi is a health writer and incoming Fulbright research scholar. This episode is based on their article “Guardianship and hospice …

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Hospice waits on a court order when no family can speak for you [PODCAST]

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Signs of depression families miss, and the stigma behind it [PODCAST]

Someone you love says they are fine. They still eat, they still go to work, and no one asks a second time. Nneka Oluoha is an internal medicine physician and the author of a novel about a Nigerian immigrant living…

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Someone you love says they are fine. They still eat, they still go to work, and no one asks a second time. Nneka Oluoha is an internal medicine physician and the author of a novel about a Nigerian immigrant living with depression. This episode is based on her article ” …

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Signs of depression families miss, and the stigma behind it [PODCAST]

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Hospitals are replacing bedside ICU doctors with a video screen [PODCAST]

A young mother arrived in the intensive care unit sick but improving. Overnight, her care was handed to a telemedicine physician on a video screen. By morning she was beyond saving. Keith Corl is an emergency and critical care medicine…

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A young mother arrived in the intensive care unit sick but improving. Overnight, her care was handed to a telemedicine physician on a video screen. By morning she was beyond saving. Keith Corl is an emergency and critical care medicine physician who has worked in more than 40 community hospitals. …

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Hospitals are replacing bedside ICU doctors with a video screen [PODCAST]

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Doctors hide their PTSD out of fear for their license [PODCAST]

A trauma surgeon spent two decades on call for the worst nights of other people's lives. Then he ran his hospital's pandemic response. Then he could not function. Jeremy Heffner is a trauma surgeon, speaker, and author. This episode is…

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A trauma surgeon spent two decades on call for the worst nights of other people’s lives. Then he ran his hospital’s pandemic response. Then he could not function. Jeremy Heffner is a trauma surgeon, speaker, and author. This episode is based on his article “Why frontline health care workers …

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Doctors hide their PTSD out of fear for their license [PODCAST]

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ICU telemedicine done right is a program, not a doctor on a screen [PODCAST]

A patient in intensive care gets worse at 2 a.m., and the hospital has no critical care doctor in the building. Chris Gallagher, a cardiologist and founder of Access TeleCare, has spent 15 years building virtual care programs inside hospitals,…

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A patient in intensive care gets worse at 2 a.m., and the hospital has no critical care doctor in the building. Chris Gallagher, a cardiologist and founder of Access TeleCare, has spent 15 years building virtual care programs inside hospitals, and he explains why that gap is so hard to …

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ICU telemedicine done right is a program, not a doctor on a screen [PODCAST]

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Why women doctors leave in their forties and what keeps them [PODCAST]

Women physicians are walking away from practice in their forties, and not because they stopped loving the work. Dawn Sears is a gastroenterologist of 25 years and the founder of GutGirlMD Consulting, where she coaches physicians and runs Women in…

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Women physicians are walking away from practice in their forties, and not because they stopped loving the work. Dawn Sears is a gastroenterologist of 25 years and the founder of GutGirlMD Consulting, where she coaches physicians and runs Women in Medicine groups. This episode is based on her article ” …

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Why women doctors leave in their forties and what keeps them [PODCAST]

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Loneliness, not weakness, is driving women out of medicine [PODCAST]

Medical training hands you a ready-made group of friends. Then it ends, and many women physicians find themselves starting over alone in a new city. Cassie Burton Greenbaum is a pediatric critical care physician and the founder of Off Service…

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Medical training hands you a ready-made group of friends. Then it ends, and many women physicians find themselves starting over alone in a new city. Cassie Burton Greenbaum is a pediatric critical care physician and the founder of Off Service Mom Co., a friendship matchmaking service for physician moms. This …

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Loneliness, not weakness, is driving women out of medicine [PODCAST]

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Diagnosing the data: Applying clinical rigor to AI adoption [PODCAST]

This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Fear of AI is not the problem. Refusing to test it is. Eric Jennings, a board-certified, fellowship-trained ophthalmologist and the senior medical director of ophthalmology at ModMed, argues that hesitancy about AI…

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This episode is brought to you by ModMed.

Fear of AI is not the problem. Refusing to test it is. Eric Jennings, a board-certified, fellowship-trained ophthalmologist and the senior medical director of ophthalmology at ModMed, argues that hesitancy about AI is a protective clinical instinct, and that the right response …

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Diagnosing the data: Applying clinical rigor to AI adoption [PODCAST]

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Why more medicine isn’t making us healthier [PODCAST]

America spends nearly a fifth of its economy on health care, yet chronic disease keeps rising and prevention lags. Narinder Singh Parhar, an internist and intensivist with four decades of experience across outpatient, hospital, and ICU care, argues that American…

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America spends nearly a fifth of its economy on health care, yet chronic disease keeps rising and prevention lags. Narinder Singh Parhar, an internist and intensivist with four decades of experience across outpatient, hospital, and ICU care, argues that American medicine has grown top-heavy, brilliant at acute rescue but neglectful …

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Why more medicine isn’t making us healthier [PODCAST]

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Amazon and Uber set the bar that primary care is judged against [PODCAST]

A car shows up when you click a button and groceries arrive by tonight, but a doctor's appointment takes weeks. Payam Zamani started MY DR NOW while he was still a resident, in a clinic of twelve hundred square feet,…

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A car shows up when you click a button and groceries arrive by tonight, but a doctor’s appointment takes weeks. Payam Zamani started MY DR NOW while he was still a resident, in a clinic of twelve hundred square feet, and now runs more than eighty of them as founder …

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Amazon and Uber set the bar that primary care is judged against [PODCAST]

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Why patients stop trusting doctors who listened to them [PODCAST]

A patient says her hip has hurt for a while. Whether she leaves trusting her doctor depends on what happens next. Alan P. Feren, a retired surgeon, health care consultant, and patient advocate, separates active listening, which makes a patient…

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A patient says her hip has hurt for a while. Whether she leaves trusting her doctor depends on what happens next. Alan P. Feren, a retired surgeon, health care consultant, and patient advocate, separates active listening, which makes a patient feel heard, from careful listening, which changes the reasoning. This …

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Why patients stop trusting doctors who listened to them [PODCAST]

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Some relationships work like medicine. Others work like a diagnosis. [PODCAST]

A patient came in with weight gain nobody could explain. Every test came back fine. Shiv K. Goel is an internal medicine and functional medicine physician. This episode is based on his article "How relationships affect health, seen from the…

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A patient came in with weight gain nobody could explain. Every test came back fine. Shiv K. Goel is an internal medicine and functional medicine physician. This episode is based on his article “How relationships affect health, seen from the exam room,” published on KevinMD. He treats the people …

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Some relationships work like medicine. Others work like a diagnosis. [PODCAST]

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Food allergies are treated differently, airline by airline [PODCAST]

A doctor cracked open an airplane emergency kit and found a sticker saying there was no epinephrine inside. Lianne Mandelbaum, president of No Nut Traveler and airline correspondent for Allergic Living, has spent a decade collecting accounts like it. This…

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A doctor cracked open an airplane emergency kit and found a sticker saying there was no epinephrine inside. Lianne Mandelbaum, president of No Nut Traveler and airline correspondent for Allergic Living, has spent a decade collecting accounts like it. This episode is based on her article “Epinephrine on airplanes …

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Food allergies are treated differently, airline by airline [PODCAST]

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