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Nov 22, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | David Stukus |Michael McGuire |Patricia McTiernan |Jim Sholler
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Join us for an enlightening conversation with Julia Hotz, journalist and author of The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging. We explore the transformative potential of social prescribing, a practice that shifts patient care from focusing solely on treatment to empowering holistic health and prevention.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Alpana Mohta |David Stukus |Sheila Nazarian |Pat Rich
Whenever I attend a social event, at least 10 to 20 percent of the attendees (second- or third-level friend or family connections) come to me with casual consultation requests. To me, casual consultation requests are kind of similar to advertisements on free apps, with one difference: the time after which the skip button surfaces is highly variable and can be followed by multiple ads with no rhyme or reason.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | David Stukus |Sheila Nazarian |Pat Rich |Dawn Baker
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!We sit down with anesthesiologist Jonathan Cohen to explore the impact of social media on the medical learning environment. Recent posts by senior physicians have sparked debate on the public shaming of trainees and the consequences for psychological safety in medicine.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | James Barrat |David Stukus |Sheila Nazarian |Pat Rich
An excerpt from Facing Suicide: Understanding Why People Kill Themselves and How We Can Stop Them. Between 2000 and 2007, suicide rates were almost stagnant for young people between the ages of ten and twenty-four. Then they began moving steadily upward. By 2018, suicides in this age group had increased 57.4 percent from 2007 levels.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Howard Smith |Dawn Baker |Casey Paul Schukow |David Stukus
The assassination attempt is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. The “gaslighting” is over. The rules for truth by legacy media are never examined for objectivity. We do not have the Inquisition in the United States; we have the legacy media. One “fact-checker” measures truth by “Pinocchios.” There is a better way—hypothesis testing. Who better to know about hypothesis testing than a physician? What if the facts about how Medicare is represented by two media outlets are tested?
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Jonathan Cohen |Dawn Baker |David Stukus |Sheila Nazarian
In the past two weeks, there have been two social media posts, one from a resident physician and another from an attending physician, criticizing trainees. The resident was critical of a trainee’s inability to identify anatomical structures in the operating room, while the attending physician was entertained by a trainee who mistakenly wore a shoe cover as a scrub hat, with a photo of it included in the post.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Casey Paul Schukow |David Stukus |Sheila Nazarian |Pat Rich
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Join us in this episode as we explore the challenges of balancing social media and device use with the essential aspects of life. Our guest, Dawn Baker, an anesthesiologist, shares her insights from a recent physician wellness conference where she discussed this very topic.
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May 28, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Alyssa Cole Mixon |Edwin Leap |David Stukus |Sheila Nazarian
In mainstream media, physicians are often depicted wearing a white coat, stethoscope, and name badge with the letters “MD.” In contrast, television and news coverage of doctors of osteopathic medicine (DOs) is notably absent or skewed. As a result, osteopathic medicine is not as well-recognized or well-known as allopathic medicine. One example was seen recently on ABC’s The View, where host Sunny Hostin described DOs as not being medical doctors. This could not be further from the truth.
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May 22, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Zahid F. Awan |Edwin Leap |David Stukus |Sheila Nazarian
Understanding human anger is complex and multifaceted, rooted in a myriad of psychological, social, and even biological factors. We frequently confront personal experiences with everyday people reacting angrily to situations that could be handled with communication and a kind approach. The daily news is filled with violence related to anger. One of the primary catalysts for anger is unmet expectations.
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May 21, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Casey Paul Schukow |Edwin Leap |David Stukus |Sheila Nazarian
I enjoy using social media (SoMe). These social communications-based, user-generated platforms part of Web 2.0 can be a great way to eat up time while scrolling mindlessly through funny posts, “how-to” cooking videos, or find breaking news updates (while being mindful of source reputation, of course).
