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1 month ago | 
kevinmd.com | G. Richard Olds |Michele Luckenbaugh |Peggy A. Rothbaum |Jen Baker-Porazinski
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Psychiatrist Devina Maya Wadhwa discusses her article, “How abuse in health care is driving doctors out of medicine.” In this episode, Devina shares her experiences as a physician working in acute care settings, where she encounters racial, verbal, and physical abuse while treating vulnerable patients.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | G. David Leveaux |Peter Ubel |Michele Luckenbaugh |Jen Baker-Porazinski
Particularly over the last 10 to 20 years, medical care has been vertically integrated so that many of us—most of us—are now working for larger health conglomerates. As part of this transition, more and more of our management is professional, with MBAs or their health care equivalent, running our working environments and collecting our billings from which they generate our salaries.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Richard A. Lawhern |Michael McCarthy |Michael Mccarthy |Christopher Doan |Jen Baker-Porazinski
At age 80, I am an old man. I am also an experienced writer and voracious reader. I’ve been active in internet bulletin boards and social media interest groups since the 1980s—in what we used to call “users net” (USENET)—before the emergence of the World Wide Web. In the 1980s, I briefly moderated a community on the internet called “Internet Village Elders.” The forum was intended to share information between librarians and others concerning the world’s largest information marketplace.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Leslie Gregory |G. Richard Olds |Jen Baker-Porazinski |Paul Pender
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!We dive into the complexities of the U.S. health care system and explore potential solutions before it reaches a breaking point. Alisa Berger, a urologist, shares her expert insights on the root causes of physician burnout, the economics of primary care, and the implications of using advanced practitioners.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Alisa Berger |G. Richard Olds |Jen Baker-Porazinski |Peggy A. Rothbaum
I recently wrote an article about the problems with our broken health care system, ending with a call for doctors to help develop solutions. In follow-up, here are some possible solutions to consider before the system self-implodes. There is concern that, without any changes, Medicare will run out of funding by 2031. Here are a few things that I think could help. Address physician burnoutIt’s real, and COVID-19 made it worse. Burnout among doctors is higher than in any other U.S. occupation studied.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Jen Baker-Porazinski |Sara Pastoor |Tomi Mitchell |Christopher Habig
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!We sit down with Phindile Chowa, an emergency medicine physician, to discuss her personal and professional journey through postpartum care. Phindile shares her harrowing experience of childbirth and postpartum depression, shedding light on the gaps in the health care system that leave many new mothers without adequate support.
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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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Jun 25, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Brandon Hunter |Steven G. Duncan |G. Richard Olds |Jen Baker-Porazinski
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has been around since the mid-20th century, but in the last two years, it has gone from science fiction to science fact at an incredible pace. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have dominated headlines in this space. LLMs are essentially AI systems that can understand, generate, and manipulate human language in various domains.
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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?
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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.
