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3 days ago | 
kevinmd.com | Joshua W. Elder |Tamara Scott |George Mathew |Homer Moutran
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Historian and ethicist Nigel Cameron discusses his article, “How DrKoop.com rose and fell: the untold story behind the Surgeon General’s startup.” The conversation chronicles the dramatic history of the iconic dot-com era company, from its modest beginnings as a personal medical record system to its meteoric rise as the world’s top health site.
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1 week ago | 
kevinmd.com | Joshua W. Elder |Tamara Scott |George Mathew |Homer Moutran
A nation that can map the human genome, transplant a face, and land rovers on Mars somehow cannot guarantee its citizens a timely doctor’s appointment. The official story blames “complex market forces,” “geographic maldistribution,” or the ever-handy “burnout.” But beneath the diagnostic babble lies a simpler, more uncomfortable truth: A powerful medical guild has learned that scarcity pays—and it intends to keep the spigot only half-open.
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2 weeks ago | 
kevinmd.com | Joshua W. Elder |Tamara Scott |George Mathew |Homer Moutran
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Psychiatrist, internist, and addiction medicine specialist Muhamad Aly Rifai discusses his article, “When rock bottom is a turning point: Why the turmoil at HHS may be a blessing in disguise.” Muhamad offers a counterintuitive perspective on the recent wave of layoffs and leadership changes sweeping through federal health agencies like the NIH, CDC, and FDA.
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2 months ago | 
kevinmd.com | Maire Daugharty |Lynn Marie Morski |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury
In his book Cross Pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry, Nabhan illustrates the interconnection between thinking across varied fields and how one specifically might inform the other. He is by no means the first or only thinker to harness looking across disciplines. This approach has certainly also informed the world of psychotherapy. The unifying glue, however, is time and space for reflection, to consider leisurely, to let the mind wander.
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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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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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Dec 1, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Miguel Villagra |Earl Stewart |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury
In the rapidly evolving landscape of health care, the urgent need for innovation has never been more critical. As a physician, you are uniquely positioned to drive transformative changes that can improve patient outcomes, enhance care delivery, and reduce costs. However, despite the opportunities, stepping into the realm of digital health and health care innovation can seem daunting.
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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.
