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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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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 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 20, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Charles Dinerstein |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong
In a world where experts are our go-to for solving everything, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed just how fallible these specialists can be. Despite impressive titles and years of experience, many experts were just as clueless as the rest of us, often with unwarranted confidence. A recent study delves into the uncomfortable truth: the more knowledge you think you have, the less aware you might be of your actual ignorance.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Martha Rosenberg |Molly Walker |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi
As long as you live, you will never hear an article from news media contending that “America Runs On Duncan.” Why? Because the line is a marketing allegation created by the advertising company and designed to sell product. Yet news media repeat medical claims from drug makers found in journals like they are news––which gives Pharma companies free advertising and can mislead consumers and patients. The most recent example is the “news” that the shingles vaccine may lower the risk of dementia.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Arthur Lazarus |Oscar Chen |Sera Choi |Clara Seong
Paolo Macchiarini, MD, is a thoracic surgeon and regenerative medicine researcher who gained international fame for pioneering surgeries that involved implanting synthetic tracheas seeded with the patient’s own stem cells. However, Macchiarini’s career came to a halt when allegations of scientific misconduct, ethical breaches, and fraudulent practices surfaced. Several of his patients experienced severe complications, and some died as a result of his experimental surgeries.
