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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A surgeon’s kids FaceTime him from their iPads while he is in the operating room, and he cannot pick up. Alyssa Kressel, a strategic communications professional, has spent more than fifteen years …
Doctors’ kids miss them, and the family builds its own fixes [PODCAST]
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You drive home after a long shift and see someone standing at the roadside. It turns out to be a sign. ≈ had that happen more than once, and her first thought …
Why exhaustion can make you see things that aren’t there [PODCAST]
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Doctors have heard promises about health technology for decades. Now artificial intelligence has to …
Making AI work for physicians [PODCAST]
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She loved the job for 20 years. She left anyway. Christine King, certified registered nurse anesthetist, returns to explain what changed in the operating room and what it cost her. This episode is …
Why business pressure and threats ended a career she loved [PODCAST]
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Many doctors picture themselves practicing until the day they die. Andrea Hayes decided otherwise, and tells you what came next. She is a retired endocrinologist, author, and speaker. This episode is based on …
Retirement isn’t the end of medicine, it’s a second act [PODCAST]
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A pediatrician gave a child vaccines the chart said he needed. The record showing he had already had them was buried in the system. Dennis Hursh is a health law attorney and founder …
Blaming the doctor is cheaper than fixing the record system [PODCAST]
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A condition named for the ovaries turns out to run through the muscle, the liver, and the pancreas. Insulin is the signal connecting them, and different organs hear it differently. Oluyemisi Famuyiwa, reproductive …
Why acne, chin hair, and irregular cycles are more than an ovary problem [PODCAST]
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Your insurance company says these therapists take your plan. Most of them do not. That is the allegation behind seven class action lawsuits now moving through courts from Massachusetts to California. Attorney Steve …
Insurance companies are being sued over directories that aren’t real [PODCAST]
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Physicians stay in jobs they cannot afford to leave. The wellness conversation talks about resilience and meaning, and never about what is in your bank account. Stanley Liu, cardiologist, financial planner, and founder …
Burnout isn’t only about autonomy, it’s about your bank account [PODCAST]
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Your genetic test results now arrive on your phone before anyone is available to explain them. So the questions go to an online mom group, or to ChatGPT, and strangers answer first. Stephanie …
Genetic test results, social media advice, and an irreversible choice [PODCAST]
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A treatment exists that can cure aggressive lymphoma after chemotherapy has failed. Only about two in ten eligible patients receive it. Manali Kamdar is clinical director of lymphoma services at the University of …
A cure for aggressive lymphoma exists, and most patients never get it [PODCAST]
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He counts four wounds in American medicine. Patients rarely bring up the first one, which is what health care costs. Narinder Singh Parhar is a physician with more than three decades in internal …
Doctors were told to be blind to the cost of care [PODCAST]
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In South Louisiana, hurricane season is treated like a fifth season of the year. Angela C. Johnson explains what that means for physicians and patients. She is an internal medicine physician and member …
Hurricane season is a fifth season, and medicine has to plan for it [PODCAST]
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Most people who get antibiotics for a sinus infection never needed them, and the real problem goes untreated. Franklyn R. Gergits is a board-certified otolaryngologist who sees the patients that three, four, and …
Antibiotics for sinusitis without a real diagnosis [PODCAST]
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What if medical AI judges you by how you write instead of what’s actually wrong? A health care executive says it already does. Craig Hauben has spent 30 years in health care and …
Your AI judges patients by how they write, not their symptoms [PODCAST]
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Leaving medicine can feel like erasing 20 years of work. What if it isn’t a loss at all, but a language problem you can solve? Physician executive Shveta Gupta, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist, joins …
Leaving medicine isn’t a loss, it’s a translation problem [PODCAST]
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Everyone agrees health care should reward better outcomes at lower cost. So why hasn’t it happened? The answer isn’t payment models or policy. It comes down to the everyday choices individual clinicians make, …
Why value-based care hasn’t lowered your medical bills [PODCAST]
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Patients now choose doctors the way they shop for everything else, judging your practice online before they walk in. Ashley Gay, a branding expert, argues that a strong brand is not about ego …
Why weak branding is costing private practices patients and talent [PODCAST]
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Social media says to spike your fiber intake as fast as you can. That is where the bloating starts. Lisa Talamini is a registered dietitian nutritionist and senior vice president of clinical solutions …
Bloated from all that fiber? You added it too fast.
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A man told his doctor he was struggling with addiction. The doctor told him this was not something he could help with. Devika Bhushan is a public health physician and a former acting …
Addiction stigma costs lives, and one word can change that [PODCAST]
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