Kevin Ladin

Feb 8, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Ryan McCormick |Adam Rosen |Melissa Schiffman |Kevin Ladin

“Top Dog Gets You Top Dollar.” “Injured? Tell us your story.” “We Win or It’s Free.” “Philly’s Legal Champion — Personalized, Aggressive Representation.” The highways of my city, Philadelphia, are festooned with the billboards of personal injury and malpractice lawyers. They float above the traffic, urging us to view any injury, accident, or bad outcome as an opportunity to extract multimillion dollar jury awards and settlements from each other and from our institutions.

Feb 5, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Adam Rosen |Melissa Schiffman |Kevin Ladin |Lynne Lederman

Becoming a doctor is an investment. You invest time and money with the expectation that you will make a good salary to pay off any debt you have incurred in the process and with the knowledge that you will be able to live a comfortable lifestyle. For most of us during school and training, we are young, healthy, and we feel invincible.

Feb 5, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Melissa Schiffman |Kevin Ladin |Lynne Lederman |Giulia Faison

This fall, ABC aired a senior version of its long-running dating reality show The Bachelor. Twenty-two women between the ages of 60 and 75 would vie to win the “final rose” and possibly a marriage proposal from the 72-year-old leading man. The entertainment media was abuzz with questions: Would viewers watch the courtship of  people in their 60s and 70s? Would they be turned off by all the gray hair and walkers?

Feb 5, 2024 | opmed.doximity.com | Kevin Ladin |Lynne Lederman |Giulia Faison |Forrest Bohler

The Consequences of Our War On OpioidsAs a board-certified specialist in both pain medicine and addiction medicine, I am deeply disturbed by the promulgation of misleading statistics by self-proclaimed experts and agencies such as the CDC and VA, and I am concerned about the effects that their actions are having on many of my patients struggling with chronic pain.