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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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 …
Silence at the chessboard changed how I talk to patients [PODCAST]
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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? …
Gradually, then suddenly: Dr. Robert Wachter on health care’s giant AI leap [PODCAST]
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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 …
Why cervical cancer screening drops after menopause, and why that’s dangerous [PODCAST]
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What happens to patients with disabilities when the government signals their lives don’t matter, and what does that mean for the doctors fighting alongside them? Ashna Shome, a pediatrics resident with cerebral palsy, …
I have cerebral palsy and I’m a doctor. Here’s what policy cuts mean for patients like me. [PODCAST]
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What happens when you ask clinicians to hit dozens of quality metrics but never explain why those metrics matter or how to manage them? Kenneth Botelho, founding program director …
Clinicians are failing at value-based care because no one taught them the system [PODCAST]
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What happens when your deepest religious convictions collide with a patient suffering from metastatic cancer and no miracle in sight? Medical student Jonah Rocheeld shares the raw tension between …
Why I would never compromise on withdrawing care until I saw it firsthand [PODCAST]
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What happens when a patient can’t afford the treatment you prescribe but is too embarrassed to say so? Health care executive Adam Cunningham joins the show to unpack the devastating ripple effects of …
Why your patient isn’t filling that prescription (and won’t tell you) [PODCAST]
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What happens when medical students witness dehumanization during clinical rotations but feel too powerless to speak up? Kathleen Muldoon, a certified coach and professor in medical education, joins the show to unpack why …
Silence isn’t neutrality: Why medical students can’t wait to find their voice [PODCAST]
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Is the new oral Wegovy pill a breakthrough or a risk most patients never hear about? Shiv K. Goel, an internal medicine and functional medicine physician, joins the show to unpack his KevinMD …
Oral Wegovy sounds easy, but the reality is more complicated [PODCAST]
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Clinical director at Franklin Park Family Dental in Dorchester and Tremont Family Dentistry in Boston, Charan Teja Bobba, discusses his article “Treating methamphetamine-associated dental disease in safety-net clinics.” Charan reflects on the …
Safety-net dentistry restores human dignity for patients recovering from severe addiction [PODCAST]
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Physician wellness coach Jessica Singh discusses the article “Physician burnout: Finding peace in a broken health care system.” Jessica shares a powerful narrative of a grueling swing shift in a rural emergency …
Finding peace and reclaiming humanity within a broken health care system [PODCAST]
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Physician and tax specialist Logan Foltz discusses the article “Physician tax strategies: Why your tax bill is so high and how to fix it.” Logan explains why the Internal Revenue Code patterns …
Why physicians pay more in taxes and how to reclaim your income [PODCAST]
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Physician coach Apurv Gupta discusses the article “What is a loving organization?” Apurv describes his model of a loving organization as a system that designs the clinical environment to make safety and …
Why loving organizations are the secret to ending burnout in medicine [PODCAST]
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Obesity medicine physician Jessica Duncan discusses the article “GLP-1 weight regain: Why stopping medication leads to weight return.” Jessica explains that expecting to maintain weight loss after abruptly stopping GLP-1 therapy is …
Why weight regain is a predictable biological response after stopping GLP-1s [PODCAST]
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Patient advocate Eric Goldfarb discusses the article “How a pregnancy test on a male patient revealed health care flaws.” Eric shares the absurd and heartbreaking story of finding a pregnancy test charge …
Why hospital systems fail to notice the human behind the bill [PODCAST]
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Internal medicine and functional medicine physician Shiv K. Goel discusses the article “Why lifestyle matters more than BPC-157 and semaglutide.” Shiv explains how the modern longevity boom has trained patients to seek …
True metabolic healing requires more than just prescribing expensive peptides [PODCAST]
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Former Treasurer of the American College of Physicians Janet A. Jokela discusses the article “The service of humanity: Recommitting to physicians’ ethical duties.” Janet reflects on her visit to the Ronald Reagan …
Reclaiming human dignity as the foundation of medical practice [PODCAST]
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Family physician, medical device inventor, and health care entrepreneur Tod Stillson discusses the article “AI governance in health care: Why physicians must lead the design.” Tod warns that the greatest threat to …
Why physicians must lead the design of artificial intelligence in health care [PODCAST]
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Pediatric hematology-oncology physician and co-founder of Pink Coat, MD Tammie Chang discusses the article “Unhooking from the ego in medicine.” Tammie shares her personal journey through depression and clinical burnout, explaining how …
Finding peace by unhooking from ego and achieving a loving presence in medicine [PODCAST]
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Integrative pediatrician Mary Wilde discusses the article “The pause medicine never taught us to take.” Mary discusses how medical training conditions clinicians to fear rest and prioritize a treadmill of servitude over …
Why physicians must reclaim their right to pause [PODCAST]
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