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Dec 10, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Erin Waldrop |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Join us for an insightful conversation with Ben Reinking, a board-certified pediatric cardiologist, medical educator, and certified physician development coach, as we explore the profound impact of emotional intelligence in health care.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong |Douglas Sirutis
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!We sit down with medical student Medha Venigalla to explore the urgent issue of resident sleep deprivation and its impact on health care. We discuss the systemic challenges residents face, including long hours, under-reporting of work, and the culture of overwork. Medha shares insights on how sleep loss not only affects residents’ health but also patient safety, leading to increased medical errors and burnout.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Erica Dorn |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming health care at extremely rapid rates. In this ever-evolving world of health care technology, clinicians should be searching for ways to optimize their workflow, improve patient care, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. One of the most talked-about innovations lately is the AI medical scribe.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Althea Halchuck |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong
“Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance.”—AristotleAs an end-of-life (EOL) consultant, one aspect of my job is advance care planning, which involves helping people create an advance directive. An advance directive (AD) has two components. The living will portion lists the treatment options and choices you want or don’t want if you become incapacitated due to an accident or a medical crisis. In the second portion, you name a surrogate to follow through on those choices.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Randall S. Fong |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong
Teaching is a blast! As an attending, I love to employ offbeat methods, with absurdity and humor, at times skirting the edge of political incorrectness, all for the purpose of enhancing one’s medical education. Educating medical students and residents by practicing physicians is a tried-and-true element of medical education, a practice dating back through the ages, where those without formal education in the art of teaching provided instruction.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Charles Dinerstein |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong
In a world where experts are our go-to for solving everything, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed just how fallible these specialists can be. Despite impressive titles and years of experience, many experts were just as clueless as the rest of us, often with unwarranted confidence. A recent study delves into the uncomfortable truth: the more knowledge you think you have, the less aware you might be of your actual ignorance.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Arthur Lazarus |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong
Paolo Macchiarini, MD, is a thoracic surgeon and regenerative medicine researcher who gained international fame for pioneering surgeries that involved implanting synthetic tracheas seeded with the patient’s own stem cells. However, Macchiarini’s career came to a halt when allegations of scientific misconduct, ethical breaches, and fraudulent practices surfaced. Several of his patients experienced severe complications, and some died as a result of his experimental surgeries.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong |Ben Reinking
As I led small group sessions during our medical school’s recent orientation, I was struck by the nervous excitement and hope radiating from our new first-year students. Their enthusiasm was palpable yet tinged with apprehension about the challenging journey ahead. Two themes emerged from our discussions. The first was a desire to dive in and tackle challenges ahead. As one student stated, “Enough talking, let’s start doing.” The second was a hope to maintain some semblance of work-life balance.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Julia Hotz |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong
An excerpt from The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging. With slicked-back hair, a fancy-buttoned vest, and a politician-like charisma, you wouldn’t guess Dr. Bogdan Chiva Giurca, a doctor for England’s National Health Service (NHS), grew up in a Romanian village, handwashing his clothes because he couldn’t afford laundry. “I got to taste the real social determinants of health without knowing they were called that,” he says.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Amit Phull |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Join us as we speak with Laura Buchman, a patient advocate and author of NERVE: Surviving Medical Madness. Laura shares her harrowing personal experiences with the medical system, including the overwhelming shock of seeing her son hospitalized with severe acute hyponatremia.
