You know the feeling. The note is signed, the visit is billed, the AVS is sent, and something still nags at you on the drive home. Retired surgeon and patient advocate Alan Feren has a name for it: unfinishedness. It is the gap between administrative closure and clinical closure, and…
Younger doctors aren't lazy. The system changed underneath them. Palliative care physician Christie Mulholland explains why physician boundary-setting is a rational response to administrative burden, prior auth, and corporatized workflow eating the rewarding part of the job. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts for the full…
Neurologist Carolyn Larkin Taylor was told her postmenopausal bleeding was "just stress." A second opinion caught endometrial cancer. Why medical gaslighting is rarely malicious. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD #medicalgaslighting #womenshealth #Shorts
Two medical students noticed mid-clerkship that the mental habits they had built over thousands of chess games were showing up in how they saw patients. Jay Pendyala and Jonathan Berg, both third-year medical students and co-founders of their school's chess club, break down the specific transfers, from pattern recognition to…
Robert Wachter, MD, chair of medicine at UCSF and author of A Giant Leap, explains why physician job replacement is not the real threat to medicine. On clinical AI, physician autonomy, and decision support. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD #medicine #healthcareAI…
ER physician Kenneth Ro on the shame armor physicians build in training, why imposter syndrome is actually a sign of humility, and what dying patients taught him. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD #PhysicianBurnout #EmergencyMedicine #MedicalTraining #Shorts
Robert Wachter wrote the definitive grumpy book about how electronic records failed medicine. Now he's back with an optimistic one about AI. Wachter, who chairs the Department of Medicine at UCSF, walks through what's changing on rounds, in med schools, in primary care, and for patients bypassing doctors. He calls…
Ashna Shome, a pediatrics resident in the Bronx who lives with cerebral palsy, explains why anti-vax rhetoric functions as ableism and connects it to federal cuts to Medicaid, WIC, and disability access already reshaping clinical care. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD…
Most women over 50 assume cervical cancer is behind them. It isn't. HPV can sit dormant in the body for decades and surface as cancer long after menopause, but screening rates drop 24 percent once women transition through menopause. Nenrot S. Gopep, a physician and public health researcher who studies…
Dr. Michael F. Myers, professor of clinical psychiatry, explains why doctors delay or avoid treatment for depression, and what changes when they finally go public about physician mental health. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD #PhysicianMentalHealth #Medicine #Shorts
Psychiatrist Devina Wadhwa describes the death threat, the rearview mirror, and the culture of silence around workplace violence in medicine. Every clinician she knows has been abused on the job. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD #Medicine #WorkplaceViolence #PhysicianBurnout #Shorts
Nurse practitioner Bettina Reed explains the one thing she wishes every patient understood about how denials actually happen and whose side their clinician is really on. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify A nurse practitioner on insurance denials, prior authorization, and how patients can tell when…
Your colleagues don't have to explain to every new attending why they need a chair. They don't have to disclose a medical history just to get through a shift. And when federal agencies start proposing rollbacks on accessibility in the buildings you work and treat patients in, the message lands…
Dr. Noemi Adame, a board-certified pediatrician, breaks down why female physicians face higher burnout rates despite delivering better patient outcomes, including the data on inbox workload and physician longevity. She also walks through the FAST framework she uses to hold boundaries in medicine. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you…
Paula Muto, vascular surgeon and founder of UBERDOC, explains how ACA subsidies grew from 180 dollars to 3,500 dollars and why premiums rose with them. The conversation covers healthcare policy, direct primary care, health savings accounts, and why fund-the-patient reform is gaining traction in Washington. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD"…
Nurse practitioner Bettina Reed describes what it actually feels like in the exam room to justify every medication and test to an insurance reviewer. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify An honest look at prior authorization, insurance denials, and clinician burnout in primary care. #Shorts
Kenneth Botelho, PA and founding program director of the Doctor of Medical Science program at the College of St. Scholastica, explains why physicians, PAs, and nurse practitioners are being paid on value-based care metrics they were never trained to understand. He breaks down the medical education gap and what structured…
Jonah Rocheeld, a medical student raised Orthodox Jewish, explains the tension between Jewish law's prohibition on withdrawing life support and the clinical reality of patients suffering with no hope of recovery. His framework for reconciling end-of-life care ethics with religious conviction is something every trainee should hear. Search "The Podcast…
Your paycheck now depends on quality scores, HCC coding, and population health numbers that nobody actually trained you to hit. Most clinicians pick it up through mistakes and admin feedback, and it's quietly pushing people out of primary care. Kenneth Botelho, who runs a Doctor of Medical Science program, argues…
If you are on your death-bed looking back at today, what do you know in your bones you need to start or stop doing immediately? Internal medicine physician Kara Pepper poses that question after leaving the only practice she had known for most of her career, then building a telemedicine…
Health law attorney Dennis Hursh explains why hospitals are inserting hard compensation caps into physician contracts, using fraud and abuse as justification while the most productive doctors see their pay frozen and CEO bonuses grow uncapped. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in bio. #ThePodcastbyKevinMD…
A patient is dying in agony, and your faith tells you removing life support is forbidden. Medical student Jonah Rocheeld grew up Orthodox Jewish and now confronts the collision between religious law and the suffering he witnesses in the hospital. ⏱️ Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:38 Growing up Orthodox and wanting…
Adam Cunningham, a health care executive, explains how medical debt contributes to 16 percent of U.S. suicides and shares how a friend got biologic treatment for rheumatoid arthritis at a JCI-accredited hospital in China after losing her insurance. Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" wherever you listen to podcasts. Link in…
Physician on-call work is labor, but most physicians are never compensated for it, and that gap is quietly driving burnout across specialties. Internal medicine physician Corinne Sundar Rao explains why the hospitalist model already proved the old system doesn't work, and why on-call compensation needs to follow the same logic.…