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4 weeks ago | 
kevinmd.com | Neil H. Baum |Stephen Foley |L. Joseph Parker |Casey P. Schukow
If you have been to the circus and toured the tent where the elephants rest and are fed, you will see that large, two-to-three-ton elephants are tethered to a small wooden stake with a small chain around the ankle of one of their hind legs. This tiny wooden stake driven into the ground could be pulled up in a nanosecond, and the elephant could run away. But the large elephants never pull on the stakes, and they rock back and forth peacefully, eating hay and drinking water.
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1 month ago | 
kevinmd.com | L. Joseph Parker |Lynn Marie Morski |Elizabeth M. Barreras-Rivest
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Anesthesiologist and psychotherapist Maire Daugharty discusses her article, “Why real therapy isn’t just about crisis.” She challenges the common misconception that therapy is only necessary or effective during acute crises (“crisis-hopping”), explaining that this view can lead to premature termination—a “flight to health”—when underlying work remains.
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2 months ago | 
kevinmd.com | Lynn Marie Morski |Stephen Foley |L. Joseph Parker
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Communications consultant and attorney Heather Hansen discusses her article, “Why every doctor needs a translator.” Drawing on her background as a medical malpractice defense attorney, she explains the “curse of knowledge,” where physicians, once expert, find it difficult to imagine not knowing complex medical information, leading to communication barriers with patients.
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2 months ago | 
kevinmd.com | Damane Zehra |Lynn Marie Morski |Stephen Foley |L. Joseph Parker
I absolutely hate prescribing medication to children. I am quite worried when someone asks for my opinion on a sick child. I have some experience treating children during my internship and residency, yet I am pretty uncomfortable. However, living in a lower middle-income country, where the average man already lives a difficult life due to high health care costs and limited income, health expenditure significantly impacts monthly finances.
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2 months ago | 
kevinmd.com | Dawn Baker |L. Joseph Parker |Rajarshi Banerjee |Michele Luckenbaugh
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Psychiatrist Muhamad Aly Rifai discusses his article, “The future of psychiatry: How AI and genetics are reshaping mental health care.” Muhamad explores how the integration of genetic research, biomarkers, electrophysiology, and artificial intelligence is transforming psychiatry into a more precise and preventative field.
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Feb 9, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Amelia L. Bueche |Julie Craig |Michele Luckenbaugh |L. Joseph Parker
Skin is the largest organ of the body. It also contains the highest concentration of nociceptors, alerting us to pain at the surface level with the intent to mitigate harm from noxious stimuli. A veritable trip wire for threats from the external environment, it offers palpable and visible responses in the dermatological layer, providing opportunities for intervention to avoid, eliminate, or resolve problematic exposures.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Dennis Hursh |Stephen Foley |Casey Paul Schukow |L. Joseph Parker
“Crappy doc” terminations. First, let me apologize for the use of legalese. Of late, I have been hearing concerning stories about physicians who were terminated from employment on the grounds of supposedly poor-quality care. These are not what you would call slam dunks—I’m not talking about leaving a scalpel in the patient or showing up drunk for rounds.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Martha Rosenberg |Susan Levenstein |Robert Pearl |L. Joseph Parker
An interview with Jerome Hoffman, MD, professor emeritus at UCLA. Martha Rosenberg: As professor emeritus at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), you engaged in what is laughingly called in academics the “triple threat” of research, teaching, and clinical work for 30 years. Can you please summarize a little of what you did? Jerome Hoffman: You’re right – I spent my career as an old-style academic, doing those three types of work.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Dawn Baker |L. Joseph Parker |Rajarshi Banerjee |Michele Luckenbaugh
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!We dive into the evolving landscape of treatment for restless legs syndrome (RLS) with neurologist Andrew Spector. For decades, patients have been prescribed dopamine agonists like ropinirole and pramipexole, often unaware that these medications could worsen their symptoms over time.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Neil Anand |L. Joseph Parker |Muhamad Aly Rifai |George Mathew
In 1948, Claude Shannon revolutionized the world of communication with his theory of information, showing that precision and efficiency could emerge from chaos. Roughly 40 years earlier, Max Planck had done something similar in physics by discovering the rules of quantum mechanics, reducing uncertainty in an unpredictable universe. These two minds, though working in entirely different fields, shared a common vision: to bring order out of entropy.
