It is not your fault. If you are a physician who burned out and spent months hunting for what you did wrong, this conversation reframes everything. Lisa Rubiano, an internal medicine physician and physician coach who left hospital medicine after burning out in 2021, argues that resilience was never the…
Food allergy advocate Lianne Mandelbaum explains why a closing throat is not an inconvenience but a potential anaphylaxis emergency, and why physicians need to hear it. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone managing a peanut allergy, sesame allergy, or food allergy anxiety on a flight…
ER and internal medicine physician Kenneth Ro explains why microvascular decline, not mitochondria, sits upstream of diabetes and aging. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone tracking longevity, insulin resistance, or diabetic complications needs to understand capillary health before the next lab panel. #Shorts #Diabetes #MicrovascularDisease
A three-time cancer survivor remembers exactly which doctors she trusted, and it came down to small things: one held her foot before leaving the room. Jess Bunin, an intensivist, and George Mount, a rheumatologist, who together founded a leadership group, break down why trust is the fragile core of both…
Lianne Mandelbaum describes watching her son lose the light in his eyes during a peanut allergy reaction on a flight, and why she wants epinephrine stocked on every commercial plane. Anyone flying with a food allergy needs this conversation. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify A…
AI in medicine stopped being just a privacy question the moment a changed pixel could flip a diagnosis. Francisco M. Torres, an interventional physiatrist, and Purab Patel, a medical student who used to write code, break down where these models actually break, why a hospital death is already part of…
Psychiatrist Devina Maya Wadhwa explains why a patient cardiac death on a locked psychiatry unit triggers an automatic coroner investigation and a police interview, and why standard staff debriefs fall short afterward. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify #Shorts #Psychiatry #CoronersInquest
Both sides of the Medicare Advantage fight are missing the point. For almost 20 years, Timothy Bulat led the analytics that helped a major insurer maximize its Medicare Advantage revenue, so he knows exactly where the savings come from and where taxpayers quietly foot the bill. He explains why the…
Lianne Mandelbaum breaks down a Northwestern survey showing how unpredictable air travel has become for passengers with food allergies, and why a recent federal ruling makes it worse. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone managing a food allergy before a flight should hear what airlines…
Is medicine a calling or just a job? That question traps every doctor into picking a camp, and it misses what is actually going on. Christie Mulholland, a palliative care physician and physician development coach, throws out the binary and offers a four-quadrant matrix instead: how called you feel on…
Psychiatrist Devina Maya Wadhwa breaks down what happens when a code blue hits a psychiatry unit, from locked oxygen tanks to a coroner investigation and a police interview that felt like an interrogation. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify The self-doubt after losing a patient is…
An airline captain removed a passenger who asked to pre-board with a pistachio allergy, and Lianne Mandelbaum explains why the new DOT ruling allowed it. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone flying with a food allergy or nut allergy needs to know who actually decides…
AI can hand you the wrong answer, and following it could be the move that gets you sued. Richard Anderson, CEO of the nation's largest physician-owned malpractice insurer, lays out the legal trap waiting for doctors who trust AI over their own judgment, why the courts are years behind the…
Nocturnist Chinyelu E. Oraedu breaks down why the 2 to 3 a.m. window is the most dangerous stretch for night shift physicians and why circadian strain never fully adapts. Anyone starting night float or working nocturnist shifts needs this before their next overnight. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on…
You learned to chase scores to get into medical school. Then you chased them in medical school. Now you are an attending chasing RVUs and turnover times, wondering when this stops. Ben Reinking, a pediatric cardiologist and physician development coach, argues the metric mindset is what disconnects physicians from why…
The doctor shortage is not a knowledge problem. It is a capacity problem, and adding more bodies is not working, especially in rural America. Tod Stillson, a family physician who spent 30 years seeing 35 patients a day before building his own AI-supported urgent care, argues the fix is not…
Emergency medicine physician and longevity practitioner Vikas Patel explains why the mechanism that makes BPC-157 heal injuries is the same one that worries him about cancer. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone considering BPC-157 peptide therapy for tendon or ligament recovery needs this risk conversation…
Nocturnist Chinyelu Oraedu breaks down why 2 to 3 a.m. is the most dangerous window on night shift, when melatonin peaks and alertness in night shift workers bottoms out. Anyone starting a night float rotation needs to hear this before the first shift. #Shorts #nightshift #residency
Why does practicing medicine feel like fighting a Frankenstein of stacked software? A physician executive with 34 years of practice argues that EHRs, population health tools, remote monitoring, and now AI have all been bolted onto 60-year-old billing infrastructure, and nothing has actually gotten better. Grace Terrell, who runs clinical…
Emergency physician Vikas Patel on the 10-year growth hormone question nobody is funding the study to answer. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone considering longevity peptides like growth hormone or BPC-157 needs to hear this before the first injection. #Shorts #Longevity #GrowthHormone
A functional medicine physician who has spent his career talking about root causes, toxins, and the food system says the Make America Healthy Again movement is borrowing his language and prescribing the wrong treatment. Shiv Goel, an internal medicine and functional medicine doctor, walks through the contradictions: RFK Jr. fought…
Chinyelu Oraedu, academic hospitalist and nocturnist with 17 years on overnights, breaks down what really happens to a doctor's body at 2 a.m. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify Anyone working night shift in a hospital needs to hear what she does to survive the 2…
Credibility as an expert witness is everything, and AI is quietly destroying it in courtroom after courtroom. Tracy Liberatore, a former physician assistant turned attorney who runs the National Expert Academy, walks through the real cases where reports were thrown out after AI hallucinated citations, what responsible AI use looks…
Brian Sayers shares the powerful story of losing his father when he was 12 to end-stage liver disease from alcoholism. 🎧 Search "The Podcast by KevinMD" on Apple or Spotify A powerful story about loss, alcoholism, and what it means to become a doctor. #Shorts #PhysicianStory #DoctorLife