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2 weeks ago | 
kevinmd.com | Debra Shute |Tochi Iroku-Malize |Sterling Ransone |Steven Furr
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Palliative care physician and author Alen Voskanian discusses his article, “Discover the secrets to regaining joy in medicine,” based on an excerpt from his book. Drawing from his personal experience with burnout where he felt isolated and like a failure within the demanding medical industry, Alen strongly emphasizes that burnout is a common result of a broken health care system, not an individual failing.
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1 month ago | 
kevinmd.com | Debra Shute |Katrina Gipson |Geoffrey Roche |Kim Downey
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Health care executive Jeffry A. Peters discusses his article “Ending physicians’ addiction to unhappiness,” focusing on the systemic factors fueling widespread dissatisfaction among doctors. Jeffry outlines how declining reimbursement, increased patient volume, and reduced support staff have turned physicians into disempowered production workers.
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2 months ago | 
kevinmd.com | Debra Shute |Tiffany R. Archambault |Michael K. Gusmano |Karen J. Maschke
Nationwide, radiology groups are approaching hospitals and asking for massive subsidies to maintain their radiology coverage. Much of the time, hospital administrators and CEOs balk and would prefer to drag their feet or try to replace the group rather than pay market rates for radiological services.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Eric Rafla-Yuan |Janet Ma |Debra Shute |Robert Pearl
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an increasingly dominant topic in the daily news. From banking to birding, personalized marketing to publishing, and smart homes to sports, AI is permeating all aspects of society. In medicine and health care, we are seeing the same thing. We are experiencing a tremendous amount of excitement, promise, and enthusiasm about the potential impact of AI, as well as understandable caution and concern.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Allan Dobzyniak |Advait Suvarnakar |Aashka Suvarnakar |Debra Shute
There was an article published recently addressing the shortage of pediatricians. Though the article focused on this specific shortage, it actually raised many additional questions regarding the physician workforce in general. It is difficult to disagree that continuing to decrease reimbursement, increasing maddening payment schemes, and increasing regulatory requirements to pediatricians and physicians in general will have predictable results.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Debra Shute |Timothy Hoff |Ketan Desai |Dawn Baker
The nickname bestowed on us residents by our internal medicine residency program director was “city savages.” There was a tremendous amount of pride amongst the residency programs in Boston back in the late 1980s, and it was no different in my program. I recall exploring residencies in Boston. While interviewing at another highly regarded Boston Hospital, I asåked the chief resident many questions, including a quiet question about the residency program at Boston City Hospital (BCH).
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Michele Luckenbaugh |Jen Baker-Porazinski |Peter Ubel |Debra Shute
A large part of patient care in the modern corporate setting is working within your restrictions. Most corporate health care settings will limit how wide your scope can be, and this often determines how you treat patients. As a family physician working within a huge corporate setting, this oftentimes leads to alternate outcomes, such as referring a patient to another office where a procedure can be done safely or having to be docile towards insurance requirements and administrators.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Amaka Nnamani |Catherine Spaulding |Andy Schoonover |Debra Shute
“You’ve got some guts starting your residency pregnant!” I was that intern. It was June 2011. A few months earlier, on Match Day—the day when the National Residency Matching Program releases results to applicants seeking residency in a specialty of their choice in the U.S.—I had found out that I’d gotten into my first-choice hospital residency program in pediatrics. I started my residency four months pregnant, and one of my attendings was not going to let me forget it.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Michele Luckenbaugh |Peter Ubel |Debra Shute |Jen Baker-Porazinski
I know you are wounded, as I am also injured. It is as if we have been battered and bruised and kicked to the side of the road, left there alone to suffer. An ignored problem will soon be forgotten; at least, that is their contention. We have screamed out our maladies and concerns to those in closed, cold rooms, those with mechanical minds that churn out debits and credits but cannot relate to the beating hearts that are suffering.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Osmund Agbo |Steven Zhang |Ryan Karmouta |Debra Shute
In a recent conversation, my good friend Joe posed what I believed was a thought-provoking question: “Why do you keep writing?” This interrogation, replete with profound connotations, subtly conveyed his conviction that expending substantial temporal resources on the lamentation of the world’s ostensibly insurmountable predicaments stands as a notably futile pursuit.
