Eric Beam

Jan 24, 2025 | kevinmd.com | Joan Naidorf |Eric Beam |Adam J. Milam |Rachel Fogel

Journalist Te-Ping Chen wrote about the nature of a physician’s career in a recent featured article in The Wall Street Journal where older physicians criticize the younger generation as being less committed to their patients. The article is titled: “Young Doctors Want Work-Life Balance.

Jan 22, 2025 | kevinmd.com | Tomi Mitchell |Eric Beam |Helen Kim |Megan McLaughlin

This wasn’t the article I had initially planned to publish. I had intended to discuss the health care system, calling it a “proverbial dumpster fire.” But in a year marked by relentless challenges, the metaphor feels too raw, too real, so I will save that for a later date. Parts of the country are literally on fire, with Los Angeles and nearby areas battling raging infernos that have torn families apart.

Dec 3, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Amanda Dean |Eric Beam |Susan Pasley |Keila N. Lopez

I sat on a cylindrical stool, eyes bleary from the early hour. Navy scrubs freshly pressed, my nursing school patch tacked to my left shoulder. Would anyone notice I used hot glue and whipstitches? I remember the sound my clipboard made as I attached a fresh piece of paper. The whoosh was faint and mimicked the flip-flap of wings attached to butterflies whirring around in my belly. I waited eagerly for my nurse preceptor.

Aug 27, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Sarah Alnaher |Eric Beam |Keila N. Lopez |Jean L. Raphael

You read many articles and watch countless videos online where life coaches offer advice on how to fix your life. This might seem like one of those boring articles. Well—I hope not! Maybe just a little … but stick with me. Today, I want to discuss a relatively new branch of medicine called lifestyle medicine. Lifestyle medicine focuses on everyday practices that can both prevent and cure many chronic illnesses, sparing us from years of physical, mental, social, and financial misery.

Aug 23, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Emily Little |Eric Beam |Elizabeth M. Barreras-Rivest |Sarah Murad

Did you know? August 22nd marks World Plant Milk Day. Get ready for a creamy, non-dairy cheers! Once just reserved for soy, the list of alternate milk options now includes everything from macadamia to hemp to flax to rice milk. But has anyone stopped to wonder why our milk craze, first ignited with the glass bottle deliveries of 1878 and now perpetuated with the bougiest of non-dairy creamy concoctions, has never fully and wholeheartedly embraced the original, actual milk made for humans.