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Hosted by Kevin Pho, MD, The Podcast by KevinMD shares the stories of the many who intersect with our health care system but are rarely heard from. 15 minutes a day. 7 days a week.
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“Suppose you’re getting ready to send your young adult off to college for the first time. In that case, you’ve likely been spending the summer getting college dorm and apartment essentials lined up: bedding, storage cubes, first …
Why you should add advance directives to your college freshman’s checklist [PODCAST]
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“Not too long ago, a circumstance occurred. I have experienced similar circumstances several times in my career. However, this time, my response was different. It was like a switch in my brain flipped. I was ready to …
What it means to leave clinical medicine [PODCAST]
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In this special sponsored episode. I’m joined by Dr. Filip Dubovsky, chief medical officer at Novavax, to discuss topics like COVID-19 and influenza in the fall and winter seasons, the importance of education to understand your vaccine …
Preparing for fall and winter: Importance of COVID-19 vaccination during the flu season [PODCAST]
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“Without a strong rural health care system, our nation’s ability to expand and contract with surges in demand will become very limited. When hospitals work together, they can better ensure that no community is left without a …
Keeping rural hospitals in the game [PODCAST]
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“I have come to appreciate why doctors find self-directed patients challenging, if not downright difficult. I wish all docs would engage with us, hear us out, and offer an explanation and further discussion when they disagree. The …
Urging patience with patient self-advocacy [PODCAST]
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“With regard to health care in the USA, the quote from Dickens is twice correct. We are in the best of times for knowledge, capability, and potential. We also are in the worst of times with regard …
Health care is upside down [PODCAST]
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“Yes, the opioid crisis in this country has caused a reckoning in the medical field about how to treat patient pain. Ignoring the pain will not make it go away.
Options are available beyond opioids, and policymakers and …
Addressing pain in patient experience surveys [PODCAST]
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“It has now been almost four years since I transitioned to academia. I see fewer patients per day and take fewer call. I also have more time with each patient, more time to recharge, more time for …
Toughness is not defined by a dollar amount [PODCAST]
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“Doing medical-legal consulting is a great way to use your medical training in a non-clinical field that really helps people. One of the many things we can do is help attorneys refute the question of a pre-existing …
How a medical-legal consultant refuted a pre-existing medical condition argument [PODCAST]
This article is sponsored by Mental Health Technologies (MHT), a cloud-based platform that enables health care providers to screen and measure mental health and substance abuse disorders.
Mental Health Technologies (MHT) brings much-needed technological innovation to a space in desperate need …
Mental Health Technologies: Revolutionizing technology within the behavior health care field
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Jay Baruch is an emergency physician and author of Tornado of Life: A Doctor’s Journey Through Constraints and Creativity in the ER.
We discuss his emergency …
A doctor’s journey through constraints and creativity in the ER [PODCAST]
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“It is impossible to fix a system with an unwillingness to bend. It means working together to accomplish a goal.
Living in the gray requires a commitment to growth and discomfort. In the gray, it is possible to …
Protect Black women’s maternal health [PODCAST]
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“If any of those people get infected, their illness will potentially impact dozens more. COVID infection may now be ‘just a cold,’ at least for the vaccinated. But no one should think this ‘you do you, I’ll …
My one case of COVID impacted dozens of lives [PODCAST]
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“Try incorporating the three small practices of your choice into your day-to-day for two weeks and watch your experience of your life transform.
You have worked far too hard to just go through the motions forever. Starting today, …
Stop going through the motions and actually have the life you dreamed of [PODCAST]
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“You received an interview invite based on ERAS filters the program set, so you already have your foot in the door. Don’t have them yawning at a two-page extravaganza of your life story that makes them wonder …
Who reads personal statements? [PODCAST]
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“No wonder doctors feel like hamsters running on an exercise wheel to nowhere. And this sense of futility is driving burnout. How much patient care will you get out of docs who have moved on to nonclinical …
Doctors are like hamsters running on an exercise wheel to nowhere [PODCAST]
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“I am heartbroken at the loss of my sister. No, breast cancer didn’t physically kill her, and for that, I am grateful. Its presence in her medical history, however, quite possibly did as it was apparently used …
My sister went to the hospital seeking help. Instead, she died. [PODCAST]
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“There is great hope for this bill to accomplish the stated goals in the medical and energy worlds. There are many excellent summaries regarding this bill, and I would urge any interested readers to find a review …
Can the Inflation Reduction Act build back medicine better and reduce climate change? [PODCAST]
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“Despite the terror of the Soviets, it was clear that not even their mighty tanks could eradicate the social tides that now, like a tsunami, could not be turned back. The power of the movement forced Ernő …
A Hungarian Jewish man’s fight for freedom [PODCAST]
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“Patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and their allies will rally in DC, London, and Edinburgh this September to “demand bold, urgent governmental action” for the millions of people living with ME, long COVID, and other infection-associated, chronic …
Why psychological explanations for long COVID are dangerous [PODCAST]
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