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Jan 18, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | G. David Leveaux |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury |Danielle Wilson
My father wanted me to get an MBA from the Harvard Business School, but I wanted to be a doctor, so I am more attuned to the MBA’s excellence in many areas but differences in ethical principles from medicine. Nowhere does maximizing returns for stockholders or returns for nonprofits also include the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence for our patients. But this principle is foundational in medicine and has been for 2,500 years.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Samir B. Kahwash |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury |Danielle Wilson
More than any other discipline of medicine, the specialty of pathology has an image problem. This is ironic for a field whose basic premise centers around images. This is also most unfortunate for medicine at large, as pathology constitutes a highly important component of modern medical care. It is estimated that 70 percent to 80 percent of all medical decisions are based either totally or partially on pathologic and/or laboratory-produced data.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Claire Brown |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury |Danielle Wilson
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Join us as we explore the emotional toll of high-stakes health care with physician, speaker, and thought leader Pamela Buchanan. Discover her insights on the “emotional flatline,” a defense mechanism that shields health care professionals but can erode empathy and connection.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Mike Augustyniak |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury |Danielle Wilson
The journey of electronic health records (EHRs) mirrors my own professional transformation. As a practicing anesthesiologist at Moffitt Cancer Center in the early 2000s, I handwrote paper charts in an era when computers were already integral to other parts of the hospital. Relying on manual notes was frustrating and inefficient, so I jumped at the chance to help implement Moffitt’s anesthesia electronic record system.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Gene Uzawa Dorio |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury |Danielle Wilson
I have been a physician for over forty years, with an office practice and providing geriatric house calls in our community. Now, I am also a caregiver. My partner, Robin, was diagnosed with a rare malignancy in November 2022, known as anaplastic thyroid cancer. She was given six months to live. Surgery to remove what they could took 9 1/2 hours, and seven weeks of subsequent radiation and chemotherapy helped slow it down.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Sophia Zilber |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury |Danielle Wilson
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!We welcome Dean-David Schillinger, an internal medicine physician and public health leader. Dean-David discusses his book, Telltale Hearts: A Public Health Doctor, His Patients, and the Power of Story.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Steven Glassman |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury |Danielle Wilson
With an expected 80 percent increase in demand for spinal surgery by 2060, particularly among older patients, the need for advanced technology driving personalized treatment is clear. Achieving optimal spine outcomes while deriving critical data that facilitates continuous improvement is limited in the current state by operating room technology narrowly focused on optimizing safe screw placement.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Emily Kahoud |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury |Danielle Wilson
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Join us for a conversation with Tracey O’Connell, a radiologist and physician coach, as we explore the hidden challenges within the medical profession. In this episode, we delve into the unsettling experience of facing a mandatory performance review, the strain it places on trust among colleagues, and the emotional turmoil it can cause.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Charles Dinerstein |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury |Danielle Wilson
For decades, the medical community has wrestled with the role of race in research and practice, a tug-of-war steeped in historical, social, and political entanglements. While some argue for discarding race, in doing so, we overlook the nuanced interplay between genetics and lived experiences. Does race carry explanatory power, or are there better alternatives to this surrogate? Race presents a complex interplay of benefits and challenges as a variable in health care studies and clinical practice.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Arthur Lazarus |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury |Danielle Wilson
“Rules and regulations, who needs them? Throw them out the door.”— Graham Nash (lyrics), from “Chicago,” sung by Crosby, Stills, Nash & YoungBusiness entrepreneur and billionaire Michael B. Kim recently was quoted as saying: “Leadership without ethics is a body without a soul.” Kim donated $25 million to his alma mater, Haverford College in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to start a new Institute for Ethical Inquiry and Leadership.
