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Trevor Bedford on Omicron and what about COVID keeps him up at night [PODCAST]
Welcome to an expedited episode of The Podcast by KevinMD. Trevor Bedford is a computational biologist and infectious disease scientist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He was selected as a recipient of the 2021 MacArthur Fellowship and can be …
How this pediatrician handles a distorted concept of reality [PODCAST]
“The victims of this now distorted concept of liberty are ones that we physicians encounter every day. The one that inspired this essay for me is an 11-year-old boy that I saw three weeks ago. He is a patient of mine in my pediatric practice who …
Changes in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness waiver and its impact on physicians [PODCAST]
“The U.S. Department of Education recently announced some major changes to the rules and qualifications around the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program. Now, for a limited period of time, borrowers may receive credit for past payments m…
Changes in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness waiver and its impact on physicians [PODCAST]
“The U.S. Department of Education recently announced some major changes to the rules and qualifications around the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program. Now, for a limited period of time, borrowers may receive credit for past payments m…
Genetic testing’s emotional impact [PODCAST]
“Finding out I was gene-positive had hit me harder than I could ever have imagined. How was I to know that my decision to get tested would have such an impact on my life? All of the rehearsing I had done in the weeks leading up to my results appo…
If you’re a nurse or an abuse survivor, you don’t have to be brave [PODCAST]
“I’m not brave. I’m just me. Full of light and lifted by my light. You see, when you strip away the darkness and lies that others surround you with, you’re left only with your light. The genuine you. Moving forward in life in ways that are authen…
Monica Gandhi, MD on why hospitalizations better measure COVID’s impact [PODCAST]
Welcome to an expedited episode of The Podcast by KevinMD. Monica Gandhi is an infectious disease physician and co-author of the New York Times opinion article, “Why Hospitalizations Are Now a Better Indicator of Covid’s Impact.” Transcript…
A satirical letter to radiologists from a jilted orthopedic surgeon [PODCAST]
“We orthopedic surgeons are disappointed with the growing lack of enthusiasm in your reports. When I began in practice almost 15 years ago, it wasn’t unusual to see a report of a post-reduction or post-surgical X-ray that read, ‘alignment i…
A COVID and Omicron update with Jeremy Faust, MD [PODCAST]
This expedited episode of The Podcast by KevinMD is a COVID and Omicron update. I interview Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician who can be reached on Twitter @JeremyFaust and on Instagram @JeremySamuelFaust. He also publishes the newsletter, Inside Me…
“Take it or leave it” is not negotiation but coercion [PODCAST]
“Physicians can exert their influence in a health care environment to put the patient-physician relationship at the center of the enterprise. Working with middle-market employers (between 200-2,000 employees), some companies pair bold doctors wit…
