The Podcast by KevinMD

The voices behind health care: stories from the many who intersect with our health care system but are rarely heard from.

2,305 episodes · Since May 2020 · About 15 minutes each

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Addiction stigma costs lives, and one word can change that [PODCAST]

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September 5, 2026Sep 5, 2026

A man told his doctor he was struggling with addiction. The doctor told him this was not something he could help with. Devika Bhushan is a public health physician and a former acting surgeon general of California. This episode is…

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Health insurance mergers are why your doctor is leaving [PODCAST]

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September 4, 2026Sep 4, 2026

In a lot of towns there is only one health insurer left, and that is starting to show up in patient care. Rita Agarwal is a pediatric anesthesiologist who started asking why colleagues in a specialty she loves are heading…

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Ketamine for depression: what actually makes it dangerous [PODCAST]

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September 3, 2026Sep 3, 2026

Ketamine made headlines for the wrong reasons, and people who could be helped by it are staying away. Jim Ellwood is an anesthesiologist who has given ketamine in the operating room and taken it himself for depression that nine medications…

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When you have five doctors and no one is directing your care [PODCAST]

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September 2, 2026Sep 2, 2026

You can have five doctors and still have no one actually in charge of your care. That gap is where patients get lost. In this episode, retired surgeon and patient advocate Alan P. Feren walks through a common case where…

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

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September 1, 2026Sep 1, 2026

A resident read a student's personal statement and asked why she didn't just use ChatGPT. The comment landed like a wound. In this episode, certified coach and professor Kathleen Muldoon returns to unpack what a residency personal statement is actually…

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A resident read a student’s personal statement and asked why she didn’t just use ChatGPT. The comment landed like a wound. In this episode, certified coach and professor Kathleen Muldoon returns to unpack what a residency personal statement is actually for, and why an algorithm can’t do it for you. This …

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

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August 31, 2026Aug 31, 2026

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

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August 28, 2026Aug 28, 2026

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. …

Health technology

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

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August 27, 2026Aug 27, 2026

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

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August 26, 2026Aug 26, 2026

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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Doctors and patients are not the enemy here [PODCAST]

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August 25, 2026Aug 25, 2026

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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Leaving her practice to reinvent herself from scratch [PODCAST]

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August 24, 2026Aug 24, 2026

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

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August 21, 2026Aug 21, 2026

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

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August 20, 2026Aug 20, 2026

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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 wrong diagnosis that almost killed a doctor [PODCAST]

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August 19, 2026Aug 19, 2026

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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Who should own the AI that doctors built [PODCAST]

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August 18, 2026Aug 18, 2026

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

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August 17, 2026Aug 17, 2026

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

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August 14, 2026Aug 14, 2026

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

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August 13, 2026Aug 13, 2026

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

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August 12, 2026Aug 12, 2026

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

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August 11, 2026Aug 11, 2026

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 …