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

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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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 much damage across medical school, residency, and practice. You will hear …

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Why patient engagement platforms must reduce staff burden [PODCAST]

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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Why patient engagement platforms must reduce staff burden [PODCAST]

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

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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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 survivors, joins to explain a consequence of survivorship that stays largely …

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

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…

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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How immersive travel can reshape identity and habits [PODCAST]

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…

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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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How immersive travel can reshape identity and habits [PODCAST]

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Why physician is not the same as provider [PODCAST]

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]

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…

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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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Patient involvement and the future of clinical research [PODCAST]

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

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…

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

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How true crime is radicalizing your kids online [PODCAST]

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…

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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 true crime is radicalizing your kids online [PODCAST]

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How Medicare is breaking nursing home care [PODCAST]

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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How Medicare is breaking nursing home care [PODCAST]

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

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 …

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

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Dark money is writing your health care laws [PODCAST]

Patients are being cut off from medications they need, doctors are afraid to prescribe, and the reason traces back to political donations most Americans never see. Richard A. Lawhern, health care educator and patient advocate, joins us to explain how…

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Patients are being cut off from medications they need, doctors are afraid to prescribe, and the reason traces back to political donations most Americans never see. Richard A. Lawhern, health care educator and patient advocate, joins us to explain how lobbying money shapes health care legislation and what patients can do about it. This episode is based on his article …

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Dark money is writing your health care laws [PODCAST]

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Why the people funding health care startups have never treated a patient [PODCAST]

Most of the people deciding where billions of health care dollars get invested have never treated a patient. Harsha Moole, a physician scientist and health care venture capital founder, joins Kevin to discuss his KevinMD article "The crash cart that…

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Most of the people deciding where billions of health care dollars get invested have never treated a patient. Harsha Moole, a physician scientist and health care venture capital founder, joins Kevin to discuss his KevinMD article “The crash cart that taught me physician-led investing.” You’ll hear how a single overlooked workflow problem on a hospital crash cart became a …

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Why the people funding health care startups have never treated a patient [PODCAST]

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Why doctors burn out connecting with patients, and how to fix it [PODCAST]

Most doctors were never taught how to sit with a patient's grief, anger, or fear without absorbing it. Eva Minkoff, a health care executive coach, and Kim Downey, a physical therapist and physician advocate, join Kevin to discuss their KevinMD…

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Most doctors were never taught how to sit with a patient’s grief, anger, or fear without absorbing it. Eva Minkoff, a health care executive coach, and Kim Downey, a physical therapist and physician advocate, join Kevin to discuss their KevinMD article “How regulating clinical empathy prevents physician burnout.” You’ll hear why physicians who lean too far into patient emotion …

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Why doctors burn out connecting with patients, and how to fix it [PODCAST]

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What’s actually behind medical students using AI [PODCAST]

Medical students who skip writing their own reflections are not lazy, they are surviving an irrational system. Kathleen Muldoon, a coach and professor, returns to discuss what student AI use in medical education actually reveals about the curriculum, the hidden…

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Medical students who skip writing their own reflections are not lazy, they are surviving an irrational system. Kathleen Muldoon, a coach and professor, returns to discuss what student AI use in medical education actually reveals about the curriculum, the hidden incentives behind it, and why she calls students in instead of catching them. This episode is based on her article …

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What’s actually behind medical students using AI [PODCAST]

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Why most methylene blue cases came from anesthesia, not pills [PODCAST]

Most patients on antidepressants are told they can't take methylene blue, even for brain fog. Steven E. Warren, a physician and longevity medicine clinician, joins Kevin to discuss his KevinMD article "51 cases that reframe methylene blue serotonin syndrome." You'll…

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Most patients on antidepressants are told they can’t take methylene blue, even for brain fog. Steven E. Warren, a physician and longevity medicine clinician, joins Kevin to discuss his KevinMD article “51 cases that reframe methylene blue serotonin syndrome.” You’ll hear why 50 of the 51 published serotonin-syndrome cases involved high-dose IV methylene blue given under anesthesia, mostly during …

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Why most methylene blue cases came from anesthesia, not pills [PODCAST]

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Low T treatment is silently destroying sperm counts [PODCAST]

Up to 40 percent of infertility cases involve combined male and female factors, but the male partner is often skipped. Erica Bove, a reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist, returns to discuss why that gap exists and what can be done…

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Up to 40 percent of infertility cases involve combined male and female factors, but the male partner is often skipped. Erica Bove, a reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist, returns to discuss why that gap exists and what can be done about it. This episode is based on her article “What is often overlooked about male factor infertility,” published on …

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Low T treatment is silently destroying sperm counts [PODCAST]

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