Anthony Avellino

Apr 29, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Kim Downey |Frances Mei Hardin |Anthony Avellino |Steven Siegel

I’ve been honored and privileged to have had recent conversations with two courageous women: Betsy Gall and Pamela Marie Hobby. Pamela met a medical resident who changed the course of her life on October 28, 2019, and Betsy’s life was forever changed exactly one month later, on November 28, 2019. Betsy wrote a book to share her family’s story. The title grabbed Pamela immediately, as it aligned with what she was building with My Doctor’s Meds, whose mission is to help the healers.

Apr 27, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Kim Downey |Frances Mei Hardin |Anthony Avellino |Thomas L. Amburn

“Creativity is intelligence having fun!”George Scialabba shared a variation of this quote in a 1984 Harvard Magazine article, though it is often attributed to Albert Einstein. National Creativity Day is coming up on May 30th. What does that have to do with being a doctor? Everything!Dr. Amy-Jo Farrow in the U.K. and Dr. Charity Hix in the U.S. speak to the importance of nurturing creativity in our lives. The demands and expectations placed upon physicians these days feel excessive.

Feb 10, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Frances Mei Hardin |Kim Downey |Anthony Avellino |Megan McLaughlin

One thing that all those years of education, medical training, and textbook studying can never quite fully prepare us for as physicians is crucial conversations with our patients. There’s an element to mastering these conversations that comes with being an attending physician, bearing sole provider responsibility, and having them ourselves. They may start off clunky at first in early practice, but we hope to continually improve with time.

Feb 3, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Anthony Avellino

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Feb 3, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Anthony Avellino |Kim Downey |Dawn Sears |Leonard Wang

Kim Downey:“Each year, almost 400 physicians die by suicide.” That sentence stopped me in my tracks. I’d been reading all the articles here on KevinMD for almost a year when I came across one written by Dr. Avellino, with the opening line above. One of my amazing doctors had died several months prior. I was, and in some ways still am, struggling with his death from over a year ago.