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.

2,309 episodes · Since May 2020 · About 15 minutes each

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Medicare will pay you to keep patients well. Most practices miss it. [PODCAST]

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July 17, 2026Jul 17, 2026

Medicare will pay your practice to keep chronically ill patients out of the hospital, so why do most practices leave that money unused? Rachel Yates, a registered nurse and health care executive, joins to explain two reimbursement programs Medicare introduced…

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Cardiac arrest is a human problem, not a training problem

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July 16, 2026Jul 16, 2026

When a patient's heart stops, the person leading the code is running on memory alone, and memory fails under that kind of pressure. Michael Peck is an anesthesiologist and retired faculty member at George Washington University who spent more than…

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When a patient’s heart stops, the person leading the code is running on memory alone, and memory fails under that kind of pressure. Michael Peck is an anesthesiologist and retired faculty member at George Washington University who spent more than 30 years watching skilled clinicians get cognitively overwhelmed during a cardiac …

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How to fix health care without Medicare for All [PODCAST]

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July 15, 2026Jul 15, 2026

Medicare for All keeps dying in Congress. So what would actually get the major players to agree on universal coverage? Health care journalist Ken Terry returns to lay out a different model, one that keeps insurance companies in the system…

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Why doctors hide their own depression until it nearly breaks them [PODCAST]

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July 14, 2026Jul 14, 2026

For 23 years, an emergency physician stayed calm in the chaos and held the line. Then one night he sat in the hospital parking lot, unable to start his car and drive home. In this episode, Kenneth Scott Burnham shares…

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Why the cure for physician burnout is seeing fewer patients [PODCAST]

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July 13, 2026Jul 13, 2026

For 15 years, a primary care physician saw more than 22 patients a day and slowly lost herself to exhaustion. It followed her home every night and onto every vacation. In this episode, Jerina Gani explains how she broke that…

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How credentialing fears harm physician mental health [PODCAST]

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July 10, 2026Jul 10, 2026

Clinicians are treated as invincible, so when their own mental health suffers, many stay silent. Namit Choksi, a physician entrepreneur and health care executive, joins to explain how credentialing forms and a culture that treats wellbeing as a perk push…

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Why medicine makes doctors feel they are never enough [PODCAST]

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July 9, 2026Jul 9, 2026

Clinicians are pushed to do more with less, until many quietly conclude they are not enough. J. C. Sue, a family medicine physician and adjunct faculty member, returns to unpack where that belief comes from and why it does so…

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Why patient engagement platforms must reduce staff burden [PODCAST]

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July 8, 2026Jul 8, 2026

Orthopedic surgeon Kevin J. Campbell discusses the article "Understanding Generation 2 patient engagement platforms." Kevin discusses the article through a practical distinction between first-generation patient engagement tools that increase access but also increase staff workload, and second-generation platforms designed to…

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Orthopedic surgeon Kevin J. Campbell discusses the article “Understanding Generation 2 patient engagement platforms.” Kevin discusses the article through a practical distinction between first-generation patient engagement tools that increase access but also increase staff workload, and second-generation platforms designed to answer routine patient questions without pulling every message into an …

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Numbness after a mastectomy no one warns you about [PODCAST]

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July 7, 2026Jul 7, 2026

Most women lose feeling in their chest after a mastectomy, and almost no one warns them ahead of time. Emily Hansen, a patient advocate who has spent nearly two decades in health care communication working with surgeons and breast cancer…

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Why your treatment plan falls apart after you leave the doctor [PODCAST]

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July 6, 2026Jul 6, 2026

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Most doctor visits do not fail in the room. They fail after you walk out, holding a plan and no clear idea of when something has gone wrong enough to call back. In this episode, retired surgeon and patient advocate Alan P. Feren explains why “call me if it gets worse” is not real guidance, and what clear instructions actually …

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How fear of the stock market quietly costs doctors a million dollars [PODCAST]

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July 3, 2026Jul 3, 2026

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Doctors spend over a decade training and then quietly leave a fortune on the table when they handle their own money. In this episode, economics professor Hernan Moscoso Boedo explains why high income and years of schooling do not make physicians good investors. He compares the way doctors avoid the stock market to the way some people distrust vaccines, not …

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Why physicians stay in jobs they could afford to leave [PODCAST]

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July 2, 2026Jul 2, 2026

Most physicians who feel stuck in a job could actually afford to leave. They just can't stomach what the worst week might look like. Stanley Liu, cardiologist and fiduciary financial planner, discusses the KevinMD article "Physician career choices come down…

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Most physicians who feel stuck in a job could actually afford to leave. They just can’t stomach what the worst week might look like. Stanley Liu, cardiologist and fiduciary financial planner, discusses the KevinMD article “Physician career choices come down to risk tolerance.” You will hear the gap between risk capacity (what your finances can actually absorb) and risk …

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When local doctors disappear, patients pay the price [PODCAST]

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July 1, 2026Jul 1, 2026

A patient with a dying leg won't drive 20 miles for care. In Devin Zarkowsky's town, that's not a hypothetical. Vascular surgeon Devin Zarkowsky runs a solo office-based practice in a San Diego County town where peripheral arterial disease patients…

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A patient with a dying leg won’t drive 20 miles for care. In Devin Zarkowsky’s town, that’s not a hypothetical. Vascular surgeon Devin Zarkowsky runs a solo office-based practice in a San Diego County town where peripheral arterial disease patients had nowhere local to go, and Jason McKitrick is the executive director of the Office-Based Facility Association. They discuss the …

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How immersive travel can reshape identity and habits [PODCAST]

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June 30, 2026Jun 30, 2026

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A week off does not fix burnout. The same problems are waiting when you get home, and the same person is walking back into them. Stacey Funt is a radiologist who runs a boutique wellness adventure travel company, mostly for women in their 40s through 60s, including a high share of physicians. She discusses the KevinMD article “Why immersive …

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Why physician is not the same as provider [PODCAST]

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June 29, 2026Jun 29, 2026

Calling a doctor a provider sounds harmless. The American College of Physicians says it isn't. Janet Jokela, former treasurer of the American College of Physicians, professor, and medical educator, discusses the KevinMD article "Physician vs. provider is an ethics issue,…

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Calling a doctor a provider sounds harmless. The American College of Physicians says it isn’t. Janet Jokela, former treasurer of the American College of Physicians, professor, and medical educator, discusses the KevinMD article “Physician vs. provider is an ethics issue, not just style.” She walks through how the word “provider” entered medicine through Medicare in 1965 and ended up …

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Patient involvement and the future of clinical research [PODCAST]

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June 26, 2026Jun 26, 2026

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Most clinical research treats patients like data points. What gets lost when researchers stop listening to the people they study, and what does it cost the science itself? Niharika Singh is a biomedical engineer and pre-medical student with research experience at Genentech, Abbott, AstraZeneca, and the Keck School of Medicine, and a global ambassador with the United Nations SURGhub. She …

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How Medicare’s new cut is closing private doctor practices [PODCAST]

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June 25, 2026Jun 25, 2026

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A 30 to 40 percent Medicare cut just hit the doctors who keep your local hospital running, and the policy meant to stop hospital monopolies is accelerating them instead. John Birkmeyer, president of the medical group at Sound Physicians and a former Dartmouth health services researcher, discusses the KevinMD article “Medicare practice expense cuts will hurt patients.” You’ll hear …

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How true crime is radicalizing your kids online [PODCAST]

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June 24, 2026Jun 24, 2026

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Your child is messaging neo-Nazis on Discord, role-playing the Columbine shooting on Roblox, or making fan art of mass killers, and you have no idea. That is the pattern Matthew Turner, an emergency medicine physician at Hershey Medical Center, is now seeing in his pediatric ER, where parents bring in children after spotting a chat-message leak that exposes months of …

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How Medicare is breaking nursing home care [PODCAST]

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June 23, 2026Jun 23, 2026

Imagine being penalized for delivering good care to your frailest patients. Medicare's quality scoring program was built for healthy outpatients, not the elderly residents of nursing homes, but it is the system doctors who round in skilled nursing facilities are…

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Imagine being penalized for delivering good care to your frailest patients. Medicare’s quality scoring program was built for healthy outpatients, not the elderly residents of nursing homes, but it is the system doctors who round in skilled nursing facilities are forced to play. Steve Buslovich, a physician executive and geriatrician, discusses the KevinMD article “How Medicare’s MIPS impacts skilled …

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Why “failed cycle” and “poor responder” wound infertility patients [PODCAST]

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June 22, 2026Jun 22, 2026

The words doctors use during fertility care can wound the patient sitting across the desk. "Failed cycle." "Poor responder." "Ovarian failure." For a woman already carrying the grief of a child she has never had, those words can feel like…

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The words doctors use during fertility care can wound the patient sitting across the desk. “Failed cycle.” “Poor responder.” “Ovarian failure.” For a woman already carrying the grief of a child she has never had, those words can feel like nails in a coffin. Oluyemisi Famuyiwa, a fertility specialist, argues that infertility grief is compounded by cultural stigma and by …