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Nov 25, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Steve Burgess |Nathaniel Fleming |Elaine Walizer |Hilary Hatch
When a 26-year-old male with a history of tracheostomy arrived in our emergency department, the case appeared routine—until we uncovered an unusual detail. The patient’s sister had recently changed his tracheostomy tube at home but noticed something concerning afterward: the terminal piece, or the distal end of the tube, was missing. Despite searching, the piece couldn’t be found.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
hudl.com | Nathaniel Fleming
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Adam Bitterman |Stephen Foley |Kristina Fiore |Nathaniel Fleming
A recent discussion with a partner led us to list our academic goals for 2024. It’s a process many of us go through each year. What did we accomplish throughout the year? Could we have done better? Is there more to do? How could we improve? What’s on tap for the upcoming year? It’s an annual ritual, I know. We reviewed his overall plan and went through how he could accomplish his professional “resolutions.” He was focused and singular in his approach. I was impressed, proud, and concerned.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | John Corsino |Elisabeth Rosenthal |Hanna Saltzman |Nathaniel Fleming
The eyes can’t see what the mind doesn’t yet know – an axiom to remind us not just of the value of lifelong learning, but that the answers are often in the exam room with us. Though bright and committed clinical people we may be, we’re dragged by the tendrils of a lumbering behemoth. American health care is designed to produce revenue and built to punish highly visible mistakes over more common (but less easily discerned) errors of reasoning.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Alan Lindemann |Nathaniel Fleming |Ken Terry |Laura Spiegel
As time passes, we have more new names for what we used to call quality assurance, but it appears to me to now be a public relations issue and have very little to do with quality. Years ago, I returned home about 10:00 p.m. on Sunday night. I had spent the weekend at my lake cabin for some sorely needed time off. As I usually do when I arrive home after a trip, I called the hospitals to be sure none of my patients had shown up there while I was gone.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Megan Nix |Nathaniel Fleming |Ronald Halweil |Robert Pearl
When I was 36 weeks pregnant with my second child, Anna, my obstetrician noted that my fetus had a disproportionately small head, or microcephaly—a condition now commonly known because of its association with the Zika virus. “We’ll just have to wait and see,” he said, meaning we’ll look for answers if the baby is affected at birth. But when my daughter was born, there were no answers then either. Anna was silent when the midwife held her up. She was only five pounds.
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Nov 12, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Richard Young |Jennifer Lynn |Nathaniel Fleming
An excerpt from 2060. Willis murmured, “Not again.” He approached his mother, who was lying in bed with an uneaten tray of food on the bedside table. A stream of drool collected on her gown as she slumped to the right. “Mom.” Willis gently shook her, and she attempted to open her eyes, but fell back into a stupor. Willis said louder, “Mom, wake up.” She opened her eyes again, but moved nothing else. He grabbed her shoulders and tried to straighten her in the bed.
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Christina Kelly |Nathaniel Fleming |Robert Pearl |Sonal Patel
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes!Join Alan Lindemann, an obstetrics-gynecology physician and the author of Pregnancy Your Way: Choose a Safe and Happy Birth. We’ll delve into the critical issue of rising maternal mortality rates in the United States, exploring its causes, potential solutions, and why data collection alone may not be the answer.
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Arthur Lazarus |Amanda Xi |Naomi Tweyo Nkinsi |Nathaniel Fleming
Many surveys and reports have acknowledged that physicians are unwell, and their numbers have reached crisis proportion. “We aren’t going to fix this problem by noting that canaries are dying in the coal mine and … sending out for tougher canaries,” remarked Gary Price, MD, an attending surgeon at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut and president of the Physicians Foundation, a physician empowerment organization.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Christina Kelly |Nathaniel Fleming |Robert Pearl |Sonal Patel
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes!We are joined by Bayo Curry-Winchell, a family physician, as we delve into the alarming maternal mortality crisis among Black women in the U.S. Join us as we discuss the complex factors contributing to this issue, the role of unconscious biases in health care, personal stories, and actionable steps to address this critical public health concern.
