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Jan 14, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | M. Bennet Broner |Jacob Riegler |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi
Last September, NBC News aired a one-sided report on the arrangement between a county coroner and a medical school apropos the transfer of unclaimed corpses with reportedly inadequate effort to find family. In addition to a grieving family, an academic bioethicist was interviewed who expressed horror at the transfer procedure. The report did a disservice both to bioethics and to necessary medical training and research.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Erin Waldrop |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Join us for an insightful conversation with Ben Reinking, a board-certified pediatric cardiologist, medical educator, and certified physician development coach, as we explore the profound impact of emotional intelligence in health care.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong |Douglas Sirutis
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!We sit down with medical student Medha Venigalla to explore the urgent issue of resident sleep deprivation and its impact on health care. We discuss the systemic challenges residents face, including long hours, under-reporting of work, and the culture of overwork. Medha shares insights on how sleep loss not only affects residents’ health but also patient safety, leading to increased medical errors and burnout.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Howard Smith |Christine Zharova |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi
There are 85,000 medical malpractice lawsuits filed per year. There are 1 million physicians. Therefore, your odds as a doctor for being sued for malpractice are 8.5 percent per year, which corresponds to one lawsuit every 12 years. To make matters worse, two-thirds of lawsuits have questionable merit. A malpractice lawsuit is inevitable because a complication is inevitable. It just takes one complication.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Howard Smith |Nicholas Bellacicco |Christine Zharova |Oscar Chen
Fundamental in a medical malpractice lawsuit is determining whether an unfortunate outcome is an error of nature or a medical error. An error of nature results from a medical intervention that aligns with the standard of care. A medical error, on the other hand, results from a medical intervention that departs from the standard of care. The problem in medical malpractice is that errors of nature can be random occurrences even when a medical intervention complies with the standard of care.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Erica Dorn |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming health care at extremely rapid rates. In this ever-evolving world of health care technology, clinicians should be searching for ways to optimize their workflow, improve patient care, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. One of the most talked-about innovations lately is the AI medical scribe.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Althea Halchuck |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong
“Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance.”—AristotleAs an end-of-life (EOL) consultant, one aspect of my job is advance care planning, which involves helping people create an advance directive. An advance directive (AD) has two components. The living will portion lists the treatment options and choices you want or don’t want if you become incapacitated due to an accident or a medical crisis. In the second portion, you name a surrogate to follow through on those choices.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | L. Joseph Parker |Christopher Doan |Richard A. Lawhern |Oscar Chen
A million vulnerable patients have died in the last decade, and while I have no doubt the rate of overdose and poisoning will drop nationwide—killing a million vulnerable patients has that effect eventually—I choose not to contribute to that death rate. This decision is in accordance with my deeply held beliefs.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Randall S. Fong |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong
Teaching is a blast! As an attending, I love to employ offbeat methods, with absurdity and humor, at times skirting the edge of political incorrectness, all for the purpose of enhancing one’s medical education. Educating medical students and residents by practicing physicians is a tried-and-true element of medical education, a practice dating back through the ages, where those without formal education in the art of teaching provided instruction.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Howard Smith |Christine Zharova |Shah-Naz Khan |Oscar Chen
James Haliczer, an erstwhile defense attorney turned plaintiff attorney, audaciously claims in a YouTube video that “there is no such thing as a frivolous lawsuit.”There are ten species of stakeholders in medical malpractice litigation: claimants, plaintiff attorneys, defendants, defense attorneys, medical experts, medical expert directories, mentors, malpractice insurance carriers, and jurors. They are part of the medical liability litigation industry.
