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1 week ago | 
kevinmd.com | Emma Fenske |Lynn Marie Morski |Stephen Foley |Nicole King
It was early morning—likely the first appointment of the day. The music in the waiting room had not even been turned on yet, and the smell of coffee was just beginning to meet the air. After a few minutes, I was called back to a room and sat in the exam chair, already in scrubs and mentally preparing to scurry off to work right after. In fact, I was already building a to-do list in my head. I was grateful to have the time to tend to my own health amidst a busy schedule—but also eager to get back.
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1 month ago | 
kevinmd.com | Maire Daugharty |Jay Wong |Lynn Marie Morski |Stephanie Ernst
In his book Ways of Attending, McGilchrist (2016) discusses a difference in attention—one that seeks organization and one that any attempt at organizing subverts. A bit like Schrödinger’s cat, just by looking, it is disturbed. In differing translations of Tranströmer’s poem Prelude from 17 Dikter (1954), about the moment upon wakening from a dream, he captures the infinite possibility that slides one fully awake into a new day, and which fades rapidly back into the now-forgotten dream.
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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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Mar 30, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Maire Daugharty |Lynn Marie Morski |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury
In his book Cross Pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry, Nabhan illustrates the interconnection between thinking across varied fields and how one specifically might inform the other. He is by no means the first or only thinker to harness looking across disciplines. This approach has certainly also informed the world of psychotherapy. The unifying glue, however, is time and space for reflection, to consider leisurely, to let the mind wander.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Jaclyn Caserta-Wells |Jay Wong |Mary V. Tipton |Lynn Marie Morski
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. It’s in our phones, our search engines, and increasingly, in our health care systems. For speech-language pathologists (SLPs), AI holds the potential to be a powerful ally—offering tools to enhance patient care, track progress, and even expand access to therapy for underserved populations. But with every innovation comes responsibility. The ethical concerns surrounding AI are not hypothetical—they are real, pressing, and demand our attention.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Courtney Markham-Abedi |Lynn Marie Morski |Stephen Foley |Harry W. Severance
It’s capitalism, it’s greed, it’s the hospitals, it’s all those things, but for me, it’s sadness, it’s loss, it’s crying myself to sleep. Lest I sound ungrateful, I am appreciative of the income and career it has afforded me. I am not the victim but also not the perpetrator. In reality, we are all both at one time or another. It’s the hushed calls to let me know a dear patient has passed.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Ram Krishnan |Lynn Marie Morski |Lillie Rosenthal |Akshat Jain
Group therapy can be a powerful treatment modality when done right. Research affirms it as equally effective compared to individual therapy, and the relatively lower cost puts this service within reach of patients who struggle to access behavioral health care due to financial constraints.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Francisco Torres |Lynn Marie Morski |Stephen Foley |Jay Wong
As a pain management specialist, I have often found that the course of treatment for a patient requires a careful balance of many factors before making a recommendation. But sometimes, the best course seems obvious. That was the case with Mr. Bautista (name replaced to protect identity). He was an older gentleman, and his imaging scans showed spinal stenosis that was likely to lead to nerve pain. And what was his chief complaint on that day? Excruciating pain in his lower back, of course.
