Orthopedic surgeon Cory Calendine explains why false hope is dangerous and why realistic expectations are the surgeon's job. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone facing orthopedic surgery needs honest recovery expectations from the start, not reassurance. #Shorts #SurgeryRecovery #PatientExpectations
Nine medications, multiple therapists, and a drug-resistant depression that ran through most of his adult life. Then Jim Ellwood, an anesthesiologist who spent a career giving ketamine as an anesthetic, tried it on himself. He explains what the Matthew Perry headlines distorted, how the drug works in the brain, and…
Your surgery went fine. Your specialists all did their jobs. And still, no one was actually in charge. Alan P. Feren, a retired surgeon and patient advocate, explains why coordination of care is not the same thing as clinical direction, what happens to patients left to connect the dots themselves,…
Sports medicine physician Ann Lebeck built her military clinic around one idea, that soldiers are athletes and most have never been told so. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Military sports medicine and tactical athlete care start with what the patient believes they are. #Shorts #SportsMedicine…
A resident read a medical student's residency personal statement, told her it was good, then asked why she had not just run it through ChatGPT. Kathleen Muldoon, a certified coach and professor who runs personal statement workshops, says the essay was never the product. The reflection was. And outsourcing it…
Najat Fadlalla, a developmental behavioral pediatrics fellow, keeps a mother's hierarchy, respect, and consequences in the plan and adds to them. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Clinicians giving parent coaching across cultures need parenting advice a family can apply with their own values. #Shorts #Parenting…
Ninety percent of patients in therapy said their depression had improved. So did 90 percent of the patients still sitting on the wait list. Richard A. Lawhern, a patient advocate and health care educator, uses that result to ask a harder question about the diagnoses now being handed to a…
Orthopedic surgeon Cory Calendine gives the order he wants patients to follow before they choose one. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone weighing a knee replacement should be able to describe their own symptoms before searching for an orthopedic surgeon. #Shorts #KneeReplacement #ChoosingASurgeon
Twenty years in, the exhaustion is real, and the system keeps telling doctors it is a personal failing. Gita Balakumar, a pediatrician who now coaches physicians through career change, says that framing is backwards. She explains how the word burnout got quietly co-opted, why self-compassion is a foundation and not…
Ann Lebeck, a family and sports medicine physician, watched soldiers go to sick call for pain and come back worse. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone dealing with military training pain should hear what rest and a profile did to these soldiers. #Shorts #MilitaryFitness #Deconditioning
At 2 a.m., in the middle of a bleeding cardiac case, a junior doctor handed him a printout of test results and asked what to do. Ahmed Elsonbaty, a cardiac anesthesiologist, walked out of that operating room asking a different question: what happens when no senior doctor is in the…
Najat Fadlalla, a developmental behavioral pediatric fellow, names her own bias first, then asks the family why that value matters. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any doctor giving parenting advice can use those two questions before correcting a technique the family chose deliberately. #Shorts #Parenting…
His emergency department cut his shifts by 40 percent and he had kids heading to college, so he took telemedicine work to cover the gap. He ended up licensed in every state and happier than he has ever been. Suneer Chander, an emergency physician who now trains doctors moving into…
Training drone operators is expensive, and losing them hurts. The real cost of attrition in modern warfare training. #MilitaryTraining #DroneWarfare #Attrition #Defense
A process server rang Jordan Grumet's doorbell at 8 p.m. while he watched TV with his kids. The case had almost nothing to do with him. Grumet, an internal medicine physician who wrote The Healthcare Heist, spent five years in it before the lawyer admitted he had only been leverage.…
June Garen spent her career as a nurse, and now she watches her son work emergency medicine and her daughter work as a social worker in the ER. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Emergency room workers and their families will recognize this worry. #Shorts #Nurses…
Most stories about doctors leaving medicine start with burnout. This one does not. Samantha Nazareth was a fulfilled gastroenterologist with a thriving solo practice in Manhattan when her mother died and she started asking whether medicine could be all of her. She booked a six-week sabbatical. Three and a half…
Gus W. Krucke, an internal and emergency medicine physician, says patients look to a doctor the way they look to no one else. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone working on bedside manner or the doctor patient relationship should hear what a visit leaves behind.…
You paid for the leaky gut panel, the numbers came back abnormal, and you still feel the same. Shiv K. Goel, an internal medicine and functional medicine physician, explains why no single marker can tell you what is wrong with your gut, what the tests are actually good for, and…
Franklyn R. Gergits, DO, an otolaryngologist with about 30 years in practice, sees sinus imaging and sinus symptoms point in opposite directions. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify If your chronic sinus infection symptoms do not match your sinus CT scan, this is that gap. #Shorts…
Before radiofrequency ablation, patients hear about the nerve that gets burned. They are rarely told that the same nerve runs the muscle that holds the spine steady. Francisco M. Torres, an interventional physiatrist who treats spine pain, is not against the procedure. He is against doing it to a 25-year-old…
Safe staffing is a policy problem, and the people it's about are not in the conversation. Carleigh Beriont wants federal action so nurses can organize, unionize, and get safe staffing. She says this doesn't land only on nurses, it lands on patients and on nurses' families too. Her last sentence…
Internal and emergency medicine physician Gus W. Krucke says medicine changed over decades and physicians are grieving that change. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone researching physician burnout in health care should hear what he says the word leaves out. #Shorts #PhysicianBurnout #PhysicianGrief
For four years, her pain was called fibromyalgia and depression. It was two autoimmune diseases, one of them narrowing her aorta to a few millimeters. Victoria Rundus, a pediatrician in middle Tennessee, spent those years feeling unheard and disbelieved, until one emergency physician put a stethoscope on her abdomen and…