Somewhere between the kid who wanted to be a doctor and the physician you are now, something broke. A third of clinicians cannot even remember why they chose medicine, and the gap between the dream and the daily practice is where burnout settles in. Brian Sayers, a rheumatologist who has…
Pediatrician and physician coach Jessie Mahoney on the one question that ends the unpaid labor trap for doctors. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Any physician pressured into volunteer committee work, leadership tasks, or admin hours without compensation needs this reframe before saying yes again. #Shorts
You can ace every exam, match into a top program, and still get quietly written off in your first week of a rotation. Vance Lehman, a Mayo Clinic neuroradiology professor who runs education for his department, spent two years researching why some trainees thrive and others stall. He argues the…
Stephanie Waggel, MD, founder of Improve Medical Culture, uses a car industry analogy to explain why vertical integration in health care is dangerous for patients and physicians. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone trying to understand physician burnout, hospital consolidation, or why US health care…
Forget mitochondria. The real driver of aging may be something most physicians never look at: the capillaries. Kenneth Ro, a double board-certified emergency and internal medicine physician, argues that microvascular decline sits upstream of nearly every aging process we treat, from heart failure to diabetic neuropathy to sepsis. He explains…
Pediatrician and physician coach Jessie Mahoney names the easiest physician burnout fix institutions keep ignoring. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify A practical look at physician burnout, uncompensated work, and what hospital leadership can fix this quarter. #Shorts
A landmark trial said do not bridge anticoagulation around surgery. Then clinicians actually read it, and the patients on the wards were almost never in the study. Three internal medicine physicians, Benjamin Geisler, Jeffrey Greenwald, and Kathy May Tran, edit a book on the fifty studies every hospitalist should know.…
Dr. Stephanie Waggel Googled her own name and the top result was a large corporate clinic. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Every physician should know what their online reputation looks like to a patient typing their name into Google. #Shorts
Pediatrician and physician coach Jessie Mahoney explains why tracking your extra unpaid hours is the first step out of physician burnout. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone dealing with physician burnout, charting after hours, or uncompensated clinical work needs this take-home. #Shorts
A doctor who spent 25 years in practice tried to get a real answer from his own cardiologist and could not. Jeffrey Junig, a psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist who recently retired, lays out what happened after his lifesaving surgery: an aneurysm he learned about in passing, a beta blocker…
Anesthesiologist Lyndsay Hoy on why a rare diagnosis still hinges on luck and connections, not the system itself. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Patients facing rare disease diagnosis or an undiagnosed condition need answers that do not depend on who they happen to know. #Shorts
Studies link 30 to 40 percent of malpractice suits to one thing: communication. Patients walk out of the exam room with fragments instead of a plan, then turn to the internet or AI to fill in what their physician never said out loud. Alan P. Feren, a retired surgeon and…
General dentist Sowjanya Gunukula on what AI actually does in a dental office, and what it does not. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone tracking AI in dentistry or dental diagnosis tools should hear how a working dentist draws the line between detection and decision.…
He wrote an essay arguing physician neutrality was a beacon of ethics. Then he sat down to talk about it and took the word back on air. Farid Sabet-Sharghi, a psychiatrist who practices in Ohio and the DC area, says American doctors don't need neutrality, they need unbending moral integrity,…
Anesthesiologist Lyndsay Hoy was trained to keep others breathing during surgery while her own chest filled with liters of lymphatic fluid. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Every clinician who has worked through a serious symptom should hear this story of pleural effusion. #Shorts
Dr. Sowjanya Gunukula on how AI in dentistry helps general dentists detect early disease and shift toward preventive care. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone worried about AI replacing their dentist needs to hear how early disease detection actually changes the visit. #Shorts
Anesthesiologist Lyndsay Hoy on what destabilizes rare disease patients more than the diagnosis itself. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone newly facing a rare disease diagnosis needs to hear what comes after the appointment, not just the name of the condition. #Shorts
A Division I volleyball player lost 40 pounds in two months while her doctors said it was anxiety or a stomach flu. A TikTok led her to ask for a celiac test, and the doctor pushed back because she was not throwing up. Kamiah Gibson, a former Ohio State athlete…
85 to 90% of women physicians are eldest daughters. Pediatrician Jessie Mahoney explains why that is not a coincidence and how the pattern feeds physician burnout. Eldest daughters are rewarded for hyper-responsibility before they can read. The career selects for the traits their families already trained. The burnout that follows…
Obesity medicine physician Jessica Duncan on what actually happens to weight after patients stop Ozempic, Wegovy, or Zepbound, and the one factor that separates the patients who keep the weight off. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone tapering off a GLP-1 for weight loss needs…
A doctor Googled her own name and a corporate clinic showed up instead of her practice. That was the moment she realized something had shifted. Stephanie Waggel, a psychiatrist who runs two private practices in Virginia and several adjacent businesses, walks through what vertical integration actually looks like inside health…
Physician coach Jessica Singh, MD explains why a toxic medical workplace is systems toxicity, not personal weakness. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone facing physician burnout or thinking about leaving medicine needs this reframe before deciding to stay or quit. #Shorts
Why physicians cannot rest, and what changes when they do. Roxanne Almas on physician burnout, grief, and rebuilding a practice around recovery. Almas, a developmental-behavioral pediatrician, lost her mother to cancer in eighteen months while caring for a father with advanced Parkinson's, and returned to clinic with almost no structural…
