Wendy Hind

Jan 17, 2025 | kevinmd.com | Janet Tamaren |Tom Zaubler |Wendy Hind |Sara Pastoor

An excerpt from Yankee Doctor in the Bible Belt: A Memoir. We work in high-pressure environments, where Dr. Death is often lurking. We can be superstitious. We can protect ourselves with a sense of humor. We can use words as a smokescreen to protect our sanity. See below. I was a resident working in the NICU. The shifts were long—sometimes as long as thirty hours in a row. I was at times dealing with sleep deprivation, which may have made me more suggestible to supernatural omens in the NICU.

Jan 7, 2025 | kevinmd.com | Arthur Lazarus |Wendy Hind |Advait Suvarnakar |Aashka Suvarnakar

The peaceful transition of power to the 47th president of the U.S. occurred January 6, 2025. It was the loser of the presidential election who ensured an orderly process and ironically certified the results. In medicine, transitions of care – whether from inpatient to skilled nursing facility, from hospital to home, or during the passing of responsibility from one practitioner to another – represent pivotal moments in the continuity of patient treatment.

May 25, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Alisa Berger |G. Richard Olds |Wendy Hind |Leslie Gregory

America’s health care system, much like Congress, is broken, and doctors have to be part of the solution. I don’t know a single doctor who doesn’t wish to improve our ability to increase access and the delivery of health services to our patients. Maintaining and/or improving the health of patients is our goal. That should be the goal of anyone associated with the health care system, but it’s not. Currently, our system is infiltrated and plagued by profit. There’s no quick fix or panacea.

Feb 25, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Scott Janssen |Anna Delamerced |Amelia L. Bueche |Wendy Hind

I’m sitting in a windowless room in the hospital’s urology department waiting for my second prostate biopsy, feeling surprisingly calm and relaxed. It’s a surveillance biopsy. Two years ago, the first one revealed “a few scattered cancer cells” while zeroing in on what turned out to be a harmless nodule. I’d learned then that a prostate biopsy will never make anyone’s list of fun things to do. In addition to being, eh, awkward, it was painful and invasive.

Jan 31, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Harvey Castro |Wendy Hind |George Mathew |Steven Siegel

The impact of personality in health careThe health care sector’s success hinges on the diverse personalities within its workforce. Embracing this diversity, particularly the dynamics of introversion and extroversion, is not just beneficial for patient care but crucial for the well-being and job satisfaction of health care providers. Studies have shown that a diverse personality mix in health care settings can lead to more comprehensive patient care and improved team dynamics.