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.

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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 …

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Dark money is writing your health care laws [PODCAST]

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June 20, 2026Jun 20, 2026

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

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June 19, 2026Jun 19, 2026

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

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June 18, 2026Jun 18, 2026

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

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June 17, 2026Jun 17, 2026

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

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June 16, 2026Jun 16, 2026

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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Low T treatment is silently destroying sperm counts [PODCAST]

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June 15, 2026Jun 15, 2026

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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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Why your ER doctor doesn’t know your medical history [PODCAST]

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June 14, 2026Jun 14, 2026

Your ER doctor has about 25 minutes to figure out your medical history and decide what to do next. Hamad Husainy, an emergency physician and physician executive, explains why so much of that data never reaches the bedside and what…

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Why the risk aversion that makes you a good doctor wrecks your finances [PODCAST]

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June 12, 2026Jun 12, 2026

The same instinct that makes you a careful clinician may be the one sabotaging your financial future. Cardiologist and fiduciary financial planner Stanley Liu joins this episode to explain why physicians' deeply trained aversion to risk becomes maladaptive once it…

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The same instinct that makes you a careful clinician may be the one sabotaging your financial future. Cardiologist and fiduciary financial planner Stanley Liu joins this episode to explain why physicians’ deeply trained aversion to risk becomes maladaptive once it leaves the hospital. This episode is based on his article ” …

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Physician burnout is not your fault, and here’s why blaming yourself keeps you stuck [PODCAST]

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June 11, 2026Jun 11, 2026

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What if the cure for physician burnout has been making it worse the whole time? Lisa Rubiano, an internal medicine physician and physician coach, spent over a decade as a hospitalist before burning out in 2021 and stepping back to figure out what really went wrong. This episode is based on her article “Why resilience is not the cure …

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How to lead a team through uncertainty without breaking trust [PODCAST]

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June 10, 2026Jun 10, 2026

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Patients know when you are not really present with them, and trust is built or broken in the first few minutes. Jess Bunin, an intensivist, and George Mount, a rheumatologist, co-founders of All Levels Leadership, argue that trust in clinical teams is a practiced skill built from three concrete components: empathy, logic, and authenticity. This episode is based on their …

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Why AI cybersecurity is now a patient safety issue [PODCAST]

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June 9, 2026Jun 9, 2026

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Most physicians using AI on patient data have no idea what the real security risks are. Francisco M. Torres, an interventional physiatrist, and Purab Patel, a medical student with a programming background, argue that cybersecurity has become a patient safety issue in medicine, and that the AI pipelines physicians now rely on are more complex than most clinicians realize. This …

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20 years inside a Medicare Advantage insurer, and who actually pays [PODCAST]

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June 8, 2026Jun 8, 2026

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Medicare Advantage covers more than half of seniors, and the debate over what it really costs is stuck in two camps. Timothy Bulat, a senior consulting actuary who spent nearly two decades leading Medicare Advantage analytics inside a major insurer, raises a question the loudest voices keep avoiding: who actually pays for the program, and is the value being shared …

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You don’t have to feel called to medicine to be a good doctor [PODCAST]

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June 5, 2026Jun 5, 2026

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Is medicine a calling or just a job? Christie Mulholland thinks that question is the wrong one, and answering it keeps physicians stuck in burnout. Christie, a palliative care physician and certified physician development coach, returns to the show to introduce a four-quadrant matrix that maps how called you feel to medicine against how satisfied you actually are practicing it. …

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Why AI has outpaced medical malpractice law, and what to do about it [PODCAST]

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June 4, 2026Jun 4, 2026

Medical AI is evolving faster than the legal system can regulate it. Richard E. Anderson, CEO of The Doctors Company, the nation's largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, argues that the gap between what AI can do clinically and what courts…

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Medical AI is evolving faster than the legal system can regulate it. Richard E. Anderson, CEO of The Doctors Company, the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, argues that the gap between what AI can do clinically and what courts are ready to judge has created a difficult position for physicians, and that it will take a long time for …

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What happens when physicians cede AI to direct-to-consumer startups [PODCAST]

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June 3, 2026Jun 3, 2026

Rural doctors hit a ceiling around 35 patients a day, and hiring more clinicians will not move it. Tod Stillson, a family physician, medical device inventor, and health care entrepreneur, argues that the physician shortage is not a headcount problem…