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3 weeks ago | 
kevinmd.com | Thanh Nguyen |Michele Luckenbaugh |Natalie Enyedi |Jennifer Jonsson
When the patient arrived by ambulance, he was frail, elderly, and alone in a hospital that spoke a language he could not understand. He had been transferred from a neighboring hospital across state lines due to concerns of malnutrition and pain. The initial CT scans were alarming—multiple lung masses, highly concerning for metastatic cancer. Yet, despite the grim prognosis, there were still barriers to giving him a definitive diagnosis, and even more barriers in simply understanding his needs.
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1 month ago | 
kevinmd.com | Rebecca Miller |Denise Reich |Pat Rich |Natalie Enyedi
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Physician and author Kate Dee discusses her article, “Medspa madness: How illegal practices are putting patients in peril” and book, Med Spa Mayhem: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Secrets of the Aesthetics Industry, exposing the alarming rise of unregulated med spas operating without proper medical oversight.
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1 month ago | 
kevinmd.com | Aamir Hussain |Pat Rich |Natalie Enyedi |Michele Luckenbaugh
As dermatologists, we often encounter patients with diverse cultural and religious backgrounds, each presenting unique considerations for treatment planning. For Muslim patients, Ramadan—a month-long period of fasting observed by approximately 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide—can significantly influence dermatological care.
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2 months ago | 
kevinmd.com | Neil H. Baum |David Mobley |Emily Watters |Natalie Enyedi
If you have followed my blogs for the past few years, you know that I have focused on practice management, the business of a medical practice, and recently AI. This blog will depart from those topics and discuss a clinical topic, the orgasm gap, that I have written with a colleague, Dr. David Mobley, a urologist at Weill-Cornell Medicine. Everyone, both men and women, deserves to experience an orgasm or the climax of sexual arousal.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Oluyemisi Famuyiwa |Pat Rich |Natalie Enyedi |John Corsino
At-home hormone testing kits have surged in popularity, offering individuals unprecedented access to tools they believe will help them understand their bodies. Marketed as convenient, empowering solutions to monitor fertility and general hormone health, these tests may seem like a valuable resource at first glance. However, the reality is far more complex. In many cases, these kits create confusion, unnecessary stress, and even lead to harmful interventions.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Deepak Gupta |Klaus Kessel |Natalie Enyedi |Homer Moutran
The question is whether practicing medicine is like or unlike practicing law. Only those in distress come in search of physicians and lawyers. Thus, their clients need healing as well as protection from the ills in their innate systems or in the systems surrounding them. The absolute dependence or even surrender of those in need during times of need provides their physicians as well as their lawyers the moral high ground.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Howard Smith |Molly Walker |Eric Tian |Natalie Enyedi
There are one million physicians practicing medicine in the United States. No medical intervention they recommend is immune from a complication. The exact number of complications is unknown. Some are medical errors inherent to the intervention, while others are random errors of nature caused by external factors. When you add to this the fact that there are more lawyers in the United States today than ever before, something has to give. There are approximately 64,000 personal injury law firms.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Ann Beach |Adam Lieber |Sarah Heins |Natalie Enyedi
Are you a medical student or resident rotating through new parts of the hospital? Then it’s a good time for some nuts-and-bolts advice about what you should wear on your upcoming rotations. No, it’s not about looking like a doctor (whatever that is). It’s not about whether patients like white coats or not. Or whether white coats carry germs. It’s not about style and personal expression. It’s about how to have a wardrobe appropriate for the vicissitudes of life in the hospital and medical clinic.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Natalie Enyedi |Peter Ubel |Ken Terry |Michele Luckenbaugh
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!We sit down with family medicine physician Jennifer Tillman to explore the transformative journey from early academic struggles to a fulfilling medical career. Jennifer shares her personal story of overcoming a pivotal setback in organic chemistry and defying discouragement to achieve her dream of becoming a doctor.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Natalie Enyedi |Natalie LaBossier |Liza Rosenbloom |Adam Lieber
As a child, I was always reading. As is the case for many people, I lost my literary passion in high school and college as my time was taken up by extracurriculars and doomscrolling on my phone. One thing I have thoroughly enjoyed about my gap years between graduation from college and matriculation into medical school is reconnecting with reading.
