Joshua Mansour

Nov 29, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Spencer D. Dorn |Joshua Mansour |Christine Bechtel |Michael McGuire

In today’s digitized, on-demand world, patients frequently use portals to send their physicians questions and requests. Today, physicians receive 57 percent more patient messages than before the pandemic. They spend the highest proportion of their inbox time on these messages, often responding after hours. While messaging is an essential care access point, high volume strains the thinly–stretched health care workforce and may contribute to burnout.

Oct 17, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Sandra H. Jee |Vi Nguyen |Joshua Mansour |Curtis Gattis

As general pediatricians whose intention is to promote health and wellness in children and youth, we witness the direct and indirect health effects of increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The climate crisis looms as an existential threat to humans and many other species.

Sep 19, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Alexander Rakowsky |Joshua Mansour |Nicholas Bascou |Joshua Liao

Recently, after a week of a viral illness that I most likely picked up from one of my patients as a pediatrician, I noticed that one side of my tongue felt as though I had dental anesthesia. During the day, this slowly progressed, but as night came, the progression rapidly intensified with my lips and eyelids on this same side now drooping.

Mar 11, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Houda Bouhmam |Joshua Mansour |Curtis Gattis |Kimberly Rogers

When I was doing my transitional year in internal medicine, I was essentially bullied for going into diagnostic radiology by my co-residents and the internal medicine attending doctors I worked with. They used to tell me that my “forever job” would be to sit on a chair in a dark room and dictate “correlate clinically” all day long.