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2 weeks ago | 
kevinmd.com | Jacob Murphy |Nicholas Bellacicco |Ronald Halweil |Deepak Gupta
Taylor Walker, a 25-year-old pregnant woman, lived in a town of under 500 people in rural Nebraska. In 2019, she told NPR that after experiencing pregnancy pains, she endured a four-hour round-trip journey to see her physician only to discover her regular doctor was unavailable. In the end, she was forced to repeat this arduous trek multiple times just to receive necessary care. For Taylor and countless Americans, this is not just an inconvenience but a dangerous reality.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Pamela Buchanan |Sara Pastoor |Andy Bonner |Deepak Gupta
I am a family physician by training, and I thank God every day for that foundation. About a decade ago, I transitioned to emergency medicine, thinking I’d left primary care behind. Back then, primary care problems—hypertension, diabetes, routine medication refills—would occasionally show up in the ER, but they weren’t the norm. Fast forward to today, and they’ve become a central part of my shift.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Deepak Gupta
The question is whether practicing medicine is like or unlike practicing law. Only those in distress come in search of physicians and lawyers. Thus, their clients need healing as well as protection from the ills in their innate systems or in the systems surrounding them. The absolute dependence or even surrender of those in need during times of need provides their physicians as well as their lawyers the moral high ground.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Deepak Gupta |Klaus Kessel |Natalie Enyedi |Homer Moutran
The question is whether practicing medicine is like or unlike practicing law. Only those in distress come in search of physicians and lawyers. Thus, their clients need healing as well as protection from the ills in their innate systems or in the systems surrounding them. The absolute dependence or even surrender of those in need during times of need provides their physicians as well as their lawyers the moral high ground.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Deepak Gupta |Natalie Enyedi |David Coulter |Ben Reinking
The term “organ harvesting,” once a misnomer for organ procurement after organ donation, echoes in the phrase “procedure harvesting,” which could be an inadvertent misnomer for procedure procurement following procedure donation. Who knows if some may even suggest preemptive extracorporeal membrane oxygenation when cardiac arrest seems imminent during an elective non-cardiac procedure?
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Deepak Gupta |Emily Hagen |Daniel Song |Craig Bowron
Privacy protection does not cease to exist at death, as privacy laws protect information until 50 years post-mortem. So, why does the protected information of public figures often find its way into the public domain long before this embargoed period elapses, sometimes almost immediately after death? Firstly, the primary question is: What defines a public figure?
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Ryan Ritchie |Jennifer Jonsson |Deepak Gupta
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Join us as we sit down with writer Robin D’Amato to discuss her book, Sugar-Free. Robin delves into the inspiring journey of Ginny Eastman, a girl whose passion for basketball begins at six years old despite her battle with juvenile diabetes. We’ll explore how Ginny overcomes physical and societal challenges, the importance of lifelong friendships, and the impact of historical changes on her life.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Deepak Gupta |Jennifer Roelands |Ryan Ritchie |L. Joseph Parker
Since the United States Food and Drug Administration approved exenatide in 2005, it took decades for the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) to identify and address perioperative safety concerns, if any, among patients using glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) such as exenatide. This delay could be due to several factors: GLP-1 RAs were initially used only for managing diabetes and later for obesity, and now potentially for a wide range of conditions.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Deepak Gupta |Sarwan Kumar |George Mathew |Steven Siegel
It is time to consider a blend of paper and electronic records. Paper records will not remain relevant forever, nor will electronic records remain infallible. The purpose of any record is to ensure that the past is preserved. If the past is lost, the present feels weakened. However, this sense of weakness arises only when the present constantly relies on the past. What if there were no past to refer to, allowing the present to create its own future?
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Deepak Gupta |Peter Ubel |Michele Luckenbaugh |Jen Baker-Porazinski
When we call out to deem a patient difficult regarding access-airway-anesthesia, we do not consider the procedure, provider, proceduralist, place, phase, payer, or player as difficult. Does this mean that only patient conditions make it difficult, with conditions surrounding the procedure, provider, proceduralist, place, phase, payer, or player never coming into play?
