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5 days 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 weeks 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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | L. Joseph Parker |Neil Anand |Julie Craig |Richard A. Lawhern
The United States federal government is a single entity, despite its three equal branches having more heads than a hydra and more arms than Mahakali. One part of that federal government is not supposed to create and propagate standards that another part arrests you for following, as confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Oregon. When it comes to the criminalization of medicine by the DEA and other federal law enforcement agencies, that rule has clearly been broken.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | L. Joseph Parker |Neil Anand |Muhamad Aly Rifai |Janet Tamaren
The true definition of criminal behavior has always been problematic. Are we criminals because we break the law or because we have been convicted? Famous and revered people throughout history have clearly broken the law but are almost never defined as criminals. All the founding fathers of the United States self-admittedly committed treason against the crown, a capital offense.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | L. Joseph Parker |Gary Call |Julie Craig |Toni Bernhard
Today, in America, if you are suffering from certain medical conditions, physicians are being taught that you cannot be trusted or even treated. This results from a decade of law enforcement targeting physicians, pharmacists, and nurse practitioners for making medical judgment calls the police don’t agree with when it comes to the treatment of certain conditions.
