Jennifer Roelands

3 weeks ago | kevinmd.com | Kyle Wells |Jennifer Roelands |Michele Luckenbaugh |Kasey M. Johnson

I’ve been an X-ray and CT technologist for almost ten years, and I’ve always taken pride in my work. But nothing could have prepared me—or any of us—for what the COVID-19 pandemic brought. It wasn’t just the virus itself; it was the way it exposed the cracks in our health care system, the way it pushed us all to our limits, and the way it changed how we saw our work, our patients, and each other.

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.

Apr 25, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Nicole King |Jennifer Roelands |Michele Luckenbaugh |Koshin Paley Ellison

Springtime. Blooming trees. Green grass. Cool winds. Sunny skies. COVID. That is where my mind wanders every year since 2020, when the season turns. I flash back to the drive between the hospital and my home. Every evening after fighting a losing battle at an academic institution hell-bent on ignoring and downplaying the horror that was about to breach our borders. I was a fighter then — maybe more in that moment than I had ever been before and have been since — and I was ready for the fight ahead of me.

Jul 11, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Aaron Morgenstein |Amy Bissada |Jen Barna |Jennifer Roelands

Question: What do doctors and nursing burnout, the COVID pandemic, and the Easter Bunny have in common? Answer: Not a damn thing. For the past few years, any article on medical labor shortages, disgruntlement, or changes in employment, such as the rise of travel nurses or locum physicians, invariably cited the same cause: COVID. But to get to the real cause of what’s going on, you have to go further back. Much further back. Specifically, to 1906.