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The Podcast by KevinMD

The Podcast by KevinMD
The voices behind health care

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. New episodes every day, about 15 minutes each.

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Every episode ends with the same question: What take-home message do you want to leave with the KevinMD audience? The answers, quoted from every transcribed episode and attributed to the guest by name and date, are collected in Take-home messages: what physicians say when asked to leave one.

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Why your patient’s biggest barrier isn’t pain. It’s walking through the door. [PODCAST]

What keeps millions of people from sitting in a dentist's chair, even when modern technology has made procedures more comfortable than ever? Kaushal Shah is a general dentist and dental director managing multiple practices in the Dallas area with 15…

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What keeps millions of people from sitting in a dentist’s chair, even when modern technology has made procedures more comfortable than ever? Kaushal Shah is a general dentist and dental director managing multiple practices in the Dallas area with 15 years of clinical experience. In this episode, based on his KevinMD …

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Why your patient’s biggest barrier isn’t pain. It’s walking through the door. [PODCAST]

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Why a rheumatologist asks every doctor to remember being six years old [PODCAST]

What if the cure for physician burnout isn't a wellness workshop but a 10-minute exercise you can do alone in a quiet room? Brian Sayers is a rheumatologist in Austin, Texas, with nearly 40 years in private practice who founded…

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What if the cure for physician burnout isn’t a wellness workshop but a 10-minute exercise you can do alone in a quiet room? Brian Sayers is a rheumatologist in Austin, Texas, with nearly 40 years in private practice who founded an anonymous counseling program that has funded almost 4,000 visits for …

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Why a rheumatologist asks every doctor to remember being six years old [PODCAST]

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One silly mistake can sabotage your medical career before it starts [PODCAST]

What if the biggest threat to your success in medical training has nothing to do with how much you study? Vance Lehman, professor of neuroradiology and chief of neuroradiology education at the Mayo Clinic, spent over two years researching why…

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What if the biggest threat to your success in medical training has nothing to do with how much you study? Vance Lehman, professor of neuroradiology and chief of neuroradiology education at the Mayo Clinic, spent over two years researching why capable trainees stumble despite strong clinical knowledge. In this episode, based …

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One silly mistake can sabotage your medical career before it starts [PODCAST]

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You can’t stent a capillary: Why aging starts in your smallest blood vessels [PODCAST]

What if the real driver of aging isn't your mitochondria or your telomeres but the tiny capillaries you never think about? Double board-certified emergency and internal medicine physician Kenneth Ro returns to the show to make a compelling case that…

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What if the real driver of aging isn’t your mitochondria or your telomeres but the tiny capillaries you never think about? Double board-certified emergency and internal medicine physician Kenneth Ro returns to the show to make a compelling case that microvascular decline is the overlooked upstream force behind nearly every disease …

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You can’t stent a capillary: Why aging starts in your smallest blood vessels [PODCAST]

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Bolus or drip? What the DOSE trial actually showed about heart failure [PODCAST]

What if one of the most common escalation strategies for acute heart failure doesn't actually improve outcomes? Internal medicine physicians Benjamin P. Geisler, Jeffrey L. Greenwald, and Kathy May Tran, editors of 50 Studies Every Hospitalist Should Know, join the…

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What if one of the most common escalation strategies for acute heart failure doesn’t actually improve outcomes? Internal medicine physicians Benjamin P. Geisler, Jeffrey L. Greenwald, and Kathy May Tran, editors of 50 Studies Every Hospitalist Should Know, join the show to break down what the DOSE trial really tells us …

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Bolus or drip? What the DOSE trial actually showed about heart failure [PODCAST]

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No nurse is better than a bad nurse in your child’s home [PODCAST]

What happens when the nurses sent to care for your medically fragile child have never even touched the equipment keeping him alive? Patient advocate Ashley Youngdale knows firsthand. As the mother of a son with Mobius syndrome who required a…

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What happens when the nurses sent to care for your medically fragile child have never even touched the equipment keeping him alive? Patient advocate Ashley Youngdale knows firsthand. As the mother of a son with Mobius syndrome who required a trach and ventilator, she became his primary nurse, trainer, and care …

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No nurse is better than a bad nurse in your child’s home [PODCAST]

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Your doctor saved your life but won’t return your call [PODCAST]

What happens when a physician who spent decades treating patients suddenly finds himself on the other side of the exam table, unable to get a simple answer about his own aneurysm? Jeffrey Junig, a psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist, shares…

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What happens when a physician who spent decades treating patients suddenly finds himself on the other side of the exam table, unable to get a simple answer about his own aneurysm? Jeffrey Junig, a psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist, shares how a life-saving surgery and a casually dropped diagnosis exposed the …

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Your doctor saved your life but won’t return your call [PODCAST]

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Patients don’t need certainty, they need your reasoning out loud [PODCAST]

What if the biggest driver of unnecessary ER visits, malpractice claims, and patient anxiety isn't a missed diagnosis but a missed sentence? Alan P. Feren, a retired surgeon, independent physician, health care consultant, and patient advocate, returns to the show…

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What if the biggest driver of unnecessary ER visits, malpractice claims, and patient anxiety isn’t a missed diagnosis but a missed sentence? Alan P. Feren, a retired surgeon, independent physician, health care consultant, and patient advocate, returns to the show to break down why clinical reasoning that stays inside a doctor’s …

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Patients don’t need certainty, they need your reasoning out loud [PODCAST]

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Your waiting room does what social media cannot [PODCAST]

What happens when patients from opposite ends of the political spectrum sit together in your waiting room and start talking like neighbors? Psychiatrist Farid Sabet-Sharghi explores why the medical office remains one of the last spaces where shared humanity overrides…

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What happens when patients from opposite ends of the political spectrum sit together in your waiting room and start talking like neighbors? Psychiatrist Farid Sabet-Sharghi explores why the medical office remains one of the last spaces where shared humanity overrides division. Based on his KevinMD article, “

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Your waiting room does what social media cannot [PODCAST]

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I ate plain rice and chicken for six months because no one explained celiac [PODCAST]

What happens when a Division I athlete loses 40 pounds, can barely form sentences during practice, and keeps hearing from doctors that it might just be anxiety? Kamiah Gibson, a D1 women's volleyball player at Ohio State and psychology graduate…

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What happens when a Division I athlete loses 40 pounds, can barely form sentences during practice, and keeps hearing from doctors that it might just be anxiety? Kamiah Gibson, a D1 women’s volleyball player at Ohio State and psychology graduate student, shares how she had to diagnose herself after finding celiac …

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I ate plain rice and chicken for six months because no one explained celiac [PODCAST]

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I Googled my own name and a corporate clinic I’ve never worked at appeared [PODCAST]

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What happens when a physician searches her own name online and gets redirected to a billionaire-backed corporate clinic she has no connection to? Stephanie Waggel, a physician and founder of Improve Medical Culture, explains how vertical integration in health care…

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What happens when a physician searches her own name online and gets redirected to a billionaire-backed corporate clinic she has no connection to? Stephanie Waggel, a physician and founder of Improve Medical Culture, explains how vertical integration in health care is quietly suffocating independent practices while

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I Googled my own name and a corporate clinic I’ve never worked at appeared [PODCAST]

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AI is already reading your dental X-rays and you probably have no idea [PODCAST]

When was the last time your dentist mentioned that artificial intelligence was scanning your X-rays before you even sat down in the chair? General dentist Sowjanya Gunukula explains how AI is quietly transforming routine dental checkups in ways most patients…

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When was the last time your dentist mentioned that artificial intelligence was scanning your X-rays before you even sat down in the chair? General dentist Sowjanya Gunukula explains how AI is quietly transforming routine dental checkups in ways most patients never hear about. Based on her KevinMD

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AI is already reading your dental X-rays and you probably have no idea [PODCAST]

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2026 cholesterol guidelines: LDL goals, Lp(a), and coronary calcium scoring [PODCAST]

This episode is sponsored by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. In this sponsored episode from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a leading preventive cardiologist walks through the 2026 cholesterol guideline update and what it means in practice. Seth J. Baum, a Columbia-trained preventive cardiologist,…

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This episode is sponsored by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

In this sponsored episode from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a leading preventive cardiologist walks through the 2026 cholesterol guideline update and what it means in practice. Seth J. Baum, a Columbia-trained preventive cardiologist, founder of Flourish Research, chairman of the Family Heart Foundation, and past …

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2026 cholesterol guidelines: LDL goals, Lp(a), and coronary calcium scoring [PODCAST]

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She was learning to keep others breathing while losing her own air [PODCAST]

What happens when a woman is diagnosed with a rare, estrogen-sensitive lung disease at 28, in her first week of residency, with no roadmap for whether she can safely have children? Anesthesiologist Lyndsay Hoy shares her experience navigating family planning…

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What happens when a woman is diagnosed with a rare, estrogen-sensitive lung disease at 28, in her first week of residency, with no roadmap for whether she can safely have children? Anesthesiologist Lyndsay Hoy shares her experience navigating family planning after being diagnosed with lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), a

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She was learning to keep others breathing while losing her own air [PODCAST]

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He declined routine X-rays and was denied a dental cleaning [PODCAST]

What happens when a patient makes a reasonable, informed decision to skip a non-mandatory test and the system simply stops? Patient advocate Aaron S. Rosenberg shares how a routine dental visit became a case study in conditional care after he…

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What happens when a patient makes a reasonable, informed decision to skip a non-mandatory test and the system simply stops? Patient advocate Aaron S. Rosenberg shares how a routine dental visit became a case study in conditional care after he declined bite-wing X-rays and was told his cleaning could not proceed. …

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He declined routine X-rays and was denied a dental cleaning [PODCAST]

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She donated 2,000 hours of unpaid labor before she even noticed [PODCAST]

When did volunteering stop being a choice and start being a condition of professionalism? Pediatrician, certified coach, and mindfulness and yoga teacher Jessie Mahoney realized she had donated over 2,000 hours of uncompensated work as a volunteer clinical professor, all…

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When did volunteering stop being a choice and start being a condition of professionalism? Pediatrician, certified coach, and mindfulness and yoga teacher Jessie Mahoney realized she had donated over 2,000 hours of uncompensated work as a volunteer clinical professor, all while holding leadership roles and raising three kids, and she had …

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She donated 2,000 hours of unpaid labor before she even noticed [PODCAST]

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His mother-in-law heard “cancer,” went home, and was dead within a year [PODCAST]

What happens when a doctor closes the chart but the patient leaves without understanding what was actually said? Retired surgeon, independent physician, health care consultant, and patient advocate Alan P. Feren describes what he calls "unfinishedness," the gap between administrative…

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What happens when a doctor closes the chart but the patient leaves without understanding what was actually said? Retired surgeon, independent physician, health care consultant, and patient advocate Alan P. Feren describes what he calls “unfinishedness,” the gap between administrative closure and true clinical closure that leaves

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His mother-in-law heard “cancer,” went home, and was dead within a year [PODCAST]

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Silence at the chessboard changed how I talk to patients [PODCAST]

When is the most powerful thing a medical student can do in a patient's room simply to stop talking? Medical students Jay Pendyala and Jonathan Berg draw on years of competitive chess to explain how the game quietly trains skills…

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When is the most powerful thing a medical student can do in a patient’s room simply to stop talking? Medical students Jay Pendyala and Jonathan Berg draw on years of competitive chess to explain how the game quietly trains skills that medical school rarely teaches directly. Their

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Silence at the chessboard changed how I talk to patients [PODCAST]

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Gradually, then suddenly: Dr. Robert Wachter on health care’s giant AI leap [PODCAST]

What if the biggest problem with electronic health records was not the technology itself, but that we expected it to transform medicine when it could only lay the foundation? Robert Wachter, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at…

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What if the biggest problem with electronic health records was not the technology itself, but that we expected it to transform medicine when it could only lay the foundation? Robert Wachter, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, joins

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Gradually, then suddenly: Dr. Robert Wachter on health care’s giant AI leap [PODCAST]

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Why cervical cancer screening drops after menopause, and why that’s dangerous [PODCAST]

What if the moment women stop seeing their gynecologist is exactly when their cervical cancer risk matters most? Nenrot S. Gopep, a physician and public health researcher, joins the show to discuss her KevinMD article, "Menopause and the drop in…

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What if the moment women stop seeing their gynecologist is exactly when their cervical cancer risk matters most? Nenrot S. Gopep, a physician and public health researcher, joins the show to discuss her KevinMD article, “Menopause and the drop

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Why cervical cancer screening drops after menopause, and why that’s dangerous [PODCAST]

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