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Dec 3, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Gary Call |Julie Craig |Toni Bernhard
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!We delve into the powerful narrative of patient vulnerability and resilience. Our guest, writer Rachel Litchman, shares her deeply personal experience of being hospitalized, highlighting the disconnect between patient needs and systemic responses. We explore the profound moments of empathy that came not from the highest authorities in health care, but from those on the frontlines and in overlooked roles.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Gary Call |Julie Craig |Toni Bernhard
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!We sit down with Alopi Patel, an anesthesiologist and interventional pain physician, to explore the gender-based inequities women face in their careers. Inspired by the metaphor of flamingos losing their pink during times of adversity, we delve into the personal, professional, and physical challenges women navigate throughout their lives.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | L. Joseph Parker |Gary Call |Julie Craig |Toni Bernhard
Today, in America, if you are suffering from certain medical conditions, physicians are being taught that you cannot be trusted or even treated. This results from a decade of law enforcement targeting physicians, pharmacists, and nurse practitioners for making medical judgment calls the police don’t agree with when it comes to the treatment of certain conditions.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Arthur Lazarus |Julie Craig |Gary Call |Toni Bernhard
The fourth major concussion recently suffered by Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa – his third in 24 months – brings into sharp focus the balance between patient/player autonomy and treatment decisions. The right to self-determination, even in sports, has become as much a moral as a medical issue. If Tagovailoa is not able to pass concussion protocols for a third time in his NFL career, he could be forced to retire.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Debbie Moore-Black |Toni Bernhard |Gary Call |Julie Craig
(Trigger warning: suicide attempt)It was dinner time at this hospital’s psychiatric unit. They shuffled into the dining area—slippers, pajamas, disheveled, sad, lonely, depressed … and forgotten. Head count. All were present except for one: Rita. Faithful Rita. Always at every therapy session, including poetry therapy, art therapy, and bingo night. Always smiling and laughing, cheering up the other patients. Rita was 54 years old and a mother of three.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Oluyemisi Famuyiwa |Beth Waldron |Emily Kahoud |Toni Bernhard
Fertility treatments are a challenging journey filled with emotional highs and lows. For many, these treatments represent the hope of starting or growing a family. However, one of the less obvious but critical aspects of this journey involves pharmacy benefit companies (PBCs). These companies play a significant role in determining access to fertility medications, and their influence can create unexpected barriers for patients and health care providers alike. What are pharmacy benefit companies?
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Scott Janssen |Toni Bernhard |Gary Call |Julie Craig
Health care professionals working with dementia patients should be aware that a higher-than-average percentage of their patients are likely to have PTSD. Research has found that people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appear to have a higher likelihood of developing dementia than those who do not. A meta-analysis of evidence on PTSD and dementia risk, for example, found that people diagnosed with PTSD are up to twice as likely to develop dementia later in life.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Nancie Wiseman Attwater |Toni Bernhard |Gary Call |Julie Craig
I have a handicap placard. I appear healthy, and I walk a lot, but sometimes, the looks I get when I park in the designated handicap space are priceless because I am taking up a special parking spot for someone who is “sick.” “What gives?” they are thinking. “She doesn’t look sick!”“It’s a big emotional load,” Dr. Sands says.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Toni Bernhard |Brittany Ladson |Erin Paterson |Meredith Mangold
My legs felt like thick, immovable tree trunks as I shakily shuffled down the long, cold hospital hallway in my chafing hospital gown and ill-fitting non-skid socks, pulling my stubborn and squeaky IV pole alongside me. My mom took small, measured steps next to me as we took our daily walk around the hospital floor to escape from my cramped, confining hospital room.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Arthur Lazarus |Gary Call |Julie Craig |Toni Bernhard
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that it is valid for people to ask whether Joe Biden’s June 27, 2024 debate performance against Donald Trump, which was weak at best and incoherent at worst, was just “an episode” or part of a “condition.”“I think it’s a legitimate question to say, is this an episode, or is this a condition,” Pelosi remarked less than a week after the debate.
