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Why overdiagnosis is failing the students it claims to help [PODCAST]

At one university, the share of students receiving disability accommodations rose sevenfold in a decade. Is that progress? In this episode, health care educator and patient advocate Richard A. Lawhern argues that psychiatric overdiagnosis is handicapping the very students it…

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At one university, the share of students receiving disability accommodations rose sevenfold in a decade. Is that progress? In this episode, health care educator and patient advocate Richard A. Lawhern argues that psychiatric overdiagnosis is handicapping the very students it aims to help, and that the research underneath much of modern …

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What a dragonfly teaches physicians about burnout and self-compassion [PODCAST]

After 20 years as a pediatrician, she stopped believing burnout meant she couldn't hack it. The problem was never her. In this episode, pediatrician and physician career development coach Gita Balakumar reframes burnout as a systemic burden wrongly blamed on…

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After 20 years as a pediatrician, she stopped believing burnout meant she couldn’t hack it. The problem was never her. In this episode, pediatrician and physician career development coach Gita Balakumar reframes burnout as a systemic burden wrongly blamed on the individual, and offers a different way to think about it. …

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Health technology

How a doctor with no coding background built his own bedside AI tools [PODCAST]

At 2 a.m., a surgeon needed an answer fast and had no one to ask. So he built the tool himself, with no coding background. In this episode, consultant cardiac anesthesiologist Ahmed Elsonbaty explains how a single bleeding-patient case in…

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At 2 a.m., a surgeon needed an answer fast and had no one to ask. So he built the tool himself, with no coding background. In this episode, consultant cardiac anesthesiologist Ahmed Elsonbaty explains how a single bleeding-patient case in the operating room pushed him to create bedside clinical decision-support tools …

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How a doctor with no coding background built his own bedside AI tools [PODCAST]

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Why telemedicine should be a career, not a side gig [PODCAST]

When his shifts were cut during the pandemic, he took a telemedicine job to pay the bills and ended up loving it. Suneer Chander is an emergency physician who co-wrote the article "Telemedicine as a career, not a side gig,"…

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When his shifts were cut during the pandemic, he took a telemedicine job to pay the bills and ended up loving it. Suneer Chander is an emergency physician who co-wrote the article “Telemedicine as a career, not a side gig,” published on KevinMD. He makes the case that telemedicine is …

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Why telemedicine should be a career, not a side gig [PODCAST]

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Doctors and patients are not the enemy here [PODCAST]

He was sued for a case he barely remembered, and five years later it pushed him out of medicine. It is not just malpractice. Jordan Grumet is an internal medicine physician and the author of The Healthcare Heist: How Physicians…

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He was sued for a case he barely remembered, and five years later it pushed him out of medicine. It is not just malpractice. Jordan Grumet is an internal medicine physician and the author of The Healthcare Heist: How Physicians and Patients Can Unite to Transform Health Care. In this …

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Doctors and patients are not the enemy here [PODCAST]

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Leaving her practice to reinvent herself from scratch [PODCAST]

She built a thriving practice in Manhattan and appeared all over the media. Then she walked away, and it was never burnout. Samantha Nazareth is a gastroenterologist and the author of the memoir I Left Anyway: The Life I Was…

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She built a thriving practice in Manhattan and appeared all over the media. Then she walked away, and it was never burnout. Samantha Nazareth is a gastroenterologist and the author of the memoir I Left Anyway: The Life I Was Supposed to Want. In this conversation she describes a deliberate …

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Leaving her practice to reinvent herself from scratch [PODCAST]

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Your leaky gut tests aren’t fixing you [PODCAST]

A teacher came in for migraines and weight loss with a stack of leaky gut test results and a diagnosis that never fixed her. Shiv K. Goel is an internal medicine and functional medicine physician who argues that leaky gut…

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A teacher came in for migraines and weight loss with a stack of leaky gut test results and a diagnosis that never fixed her. Shiv K. Goel is an internal medicine and functional medicine physician who argues that leaky gut is not a diagnosis but a physiological response, and that the upstream driver is often chronic stress and a dysregulated …

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Your leaky gut tests aren’t fixing you [PODCAST]

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A back procedure that can weaken a young spine [PODCAST]

A young patient walks in with ordinary back pain and leaves on a path that can quietly weaken the muscle holding the spine together. Francisco M. Torres is an interventional physiatrist who noticed these patients coming back to him sooner,…

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A young patient walks in with ordinary back pain and leaves on a path that can quietly weaken the muscle holding the spine together. Francisco M. Torres is an interventional physiatrist who noticed these patients coming back to him sooner, and traced it to radiofrequency ablation denervating the multifidus, the back’s most important stabilizer, until the muscle atrophies and fills …

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A back procedure that can weaken a young spine [PODCAST]

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A wrong diagnosis that almost killed a doctor [PODCAST]

For years, doctors told this pediatrician her pain was fibromyalgia and depression. It was quietly starving her aorta. Victoria Rundus is a board-certified pediatrician who spent four years being misdiagnosed before an ER physician finally listened to her abdomen and…

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For years, doctors told this pediatrician her pain was fibromyalgia and depression. It was quietly starving her aorta. Victoria Rundus is a board-certified pediatrician who spent four years being misdiagnosed before an ER physician finally listened to her abdomen and heard what everyone else had missed. This episode is based on her …

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A wrong diagnosis that almost killed a doctor [PODCAST]

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Who should own the AI that doctors built [PODCAST]

A tech founder used one pediatrician's public advice to train her own AI. Sonal Patel decided doctors should own the tools built on their knowledge instead. Patel is a pediatrician and neonatologist who built and controls her own AI for…

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A tech founder used one pediatrician’s public advice to train her own AI. Sonal Patel decided doctors should own the tools built on their knowledge instead. Patel is a pediatrician and neonatologist who built and controls her own AI for the fourth trimester. This episode is based on her article “Physicians must shape AI in medicine, not watch it,” …

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Who should own the AI that doctors built [PODCAST]

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Why your doctor never asks if intimacy still matters to you [PODCAST]

Your doctor may help you live longer, but has likely never asked if intimacy still matters to you. In this episode, Michael Reed, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, certified menopause practitioner, and fellowship-trained cosmetic gynecologic surgeon, explains why so many women are…

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Your doctor may help you live longer, but has likely never asked if intimacy still matters to you. In this episode, Michael Reed, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, certified menopause practitioner, and fellowship-trained cosmetic gynecologic surgeon, explains why so many women are never given the chance to raise sexual health concerns with their physician. You will hear why medicine taught women that …

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Why your doctor never asks if intimacy still matters to you [PODCAST]

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When your labs are normal but you still feel sick [PODCAST]

Your blood pressure is fine. Your cholesterol looks great. So why do you still feel exhausted, wired, and unwell? Internal medicine and functional medicine physician Shiv K. Goel returns to explain what standard lab panels miss when chronic stress quietly…

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Your blood pressure is fine. Your cholesterol looks great. So why do you still feel exhausted, wired, and unwell? Internal medicine and functional medicine physician Shiv K. Goel returns to explain what standard lab panels miss when chronic stress quietly reshapes the body. This episode is based on his article “Normal labs miss what most patients are living through,” …

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When your labs are normal but you still feel sick [PODCAST]

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Medical students aren’t cheating on their essays: They’re afraid [PODCAST]

A medical student offered a professor $1,000 to write their residency essay, and the reason why was not laziness. In this episode, Kathleen Muldoon, a certified coach and medical education professor, shares what she learned when she sat that student…

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A medical student offered a professor $1,000 to write their residency essay, and the reason why was not laziness. In this episode, Kathleen Muldoon, a certified coach and medical education professor, shares what she learned when she sat that student down for an honest conversation. You will hear why so many students freeze on the personal statement, why the fear …

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Medical students aren’t cheating on their essays: They’re afraid [PODCAST]

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Why soldiers are athletes and their bodies pay for it [PODCAST]

A 30-year-old soldier can have the knees of a 60-year-old. Not from one bad injury, but from carrying a load every single day for years. Family medicine and sports medicine physician Ann Lebeck returns to explain why she came to…

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A 30-year-old soldier can have the knees of a 60-year-old. Not from one bad injury, but from carrying a load every single day for years. Family medicine and sports medicine physician Ann Lebeck returns to explain why she came to see soldiers as tactical athletes, and what that means for their bodies. This episode is based on her article ” …

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Why soldiers are athletes and their bodies pay for it [PODCAST]

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Doctors are now the second opinion, AI is the first [PODCAST]

Your patients are asking ChatGPT what's wrong with them before they call your office, and getting an answer in seconds. In this episode, Tod Stillson, a board-certified family physician, medical device inventor, and health care entrepreneur, explains how AI chatbots…

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Your patients are asking ChatGPT what’s wrong with them before they call your office, and getting an answer in seconds. In this episode, Tod Stillson, a board-certified family physician, medical device inventor, and health care entrepreneur, explains how AI chatbots became the new waiting room, and what that means for the doctor who used to be the first call. You …

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Doctors are now the second opinion, AI is the first [PODCAST]

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When patients ask for a knee surgery brand they don’t understand [PODCAST]

A patient asked for her knee surgery by its brand name. She used the term perfectly. She just had no idea what it actually meant. Orthopedic surgeon Cory Calendine, who does nearly 700 to 800 hip and knee replacements a…

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A patient asked for her knee surgery by its brand name. She used the term perfectly. She just had no idea what it actually meant. Orthopedic surgeon Cory Calendine, who does nearly 700 to 800 hip and knee replacements a year, returns to unpack how marketing is quietly reshaping what patients ask for in the exam room. This episode is …

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When patients ask for a knee surgery brand they don’t understand [PODCAST]

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When good parenting looks different across cultures [PODCAST]

Two families raise their kids in completely different ways. Both are doing it right. So why do clinicians so often assume one of them is doing something wrong? Najat Fadlalla, a developmental behavioral pediatric fellow, returns to unpack how cultural…

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Two families raise their kids in completely different ways. Both are doing it right. So why do clinicians so often assume one of them is doing something wrong? Najat Fadlalla, a developmental behavioral pediatric fellow, returns to unpack how cultural bias creeps into parent coaching, the first-line, evidence-based approach for children with or at risk of ADHD. This episode is …

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When good parenting looks different across cultures [PODCAST]

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He spoke up in residency, then got walked out in front of his patients [PODCAST]

A doctor spoke up about problems in his residency, and months later he was walked out in front of his patients. In this episode, Vasilii Khammad, a physician and researcher who came to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar,…

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A doctor spoke up about problems in his residency, and months later he was walked out in front of his patients. In this episode, Vasilii Khammad, a physician and researcher who came to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar, shares what happened after he and fellow residents raised concerns about their training program. You will hear how the feedback …

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He spoke up in residency, then got walked out in front of his patients [PODCAST]

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Nurses are getting assaulted at work and no one listens [PODCAST]

A nurse survived a violent assault at work, then watched her hospital treat her like a liability, not a victim. In this episode, June Garen, a retired psychiatric and operating room nurse and author, and Carleigh Beriont, a former union…

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A nurse survived a violent assault at work, then watched her hospital treat her like a liability, not a victim. In this episode, June Garen, a retired psychiatric and operating room nurse and author, and Carleigh Beriont, a former union organizer who teaches U.S. history and public policy, explain why violence …

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Nurses are getting assaulted at work and no one listens [PODCAST]

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Burnout blames the doctor for a broken system [PODCAST]

What if burnout is the wrong word for what doctors are actually going through? Gus W. Krucke argues that calling physicians burned out treats a systemic failure as a personal one, and that physicians are not failing, they are grieving…

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What if burnout is the wrong word for what doctors are actually going through? Gus W. Krucke argues that calling physicians burned out treats a systemic failure as a personal one, and that physicians are not failing, they are grieving a profession that has changed around them. Using a malpractice case …

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Burnout blames the doctor for a broken system [PODCAST]

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