Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “Patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and their allies will rally in DC, London, and Edinburgh this September to “demand bold, urgent governmental action” for the millions of …
Category: COVID
Coronavirus and the duty to treat
For the first time since graduation from medical school, stirred by the courage of my colleagues in the ICUs and emergency rooms during the COVID pandemic, I looked back at the Hippocratic oath to reassess its charge to physicians. My wife and I, both …
Pediatrician and pharmacist agree: Children should be vaccinated against COVID-19
With COVID-19 vaccines now widely available for children six months and older, we join pediatricians and pharmacists across the country and urge parents to vaccinate their young children against COVID-19 as soon as possible. Schools are open and more a…
Exploring the critical gaps in Canada’s health workforce planning [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “We need to stop simply clapping our hands in support of health workers — and start planning to create better workforce conditions for them. Let’s make improved health workforce scie…
The resilience of children throughout the pandemic isn’t what you think
“Don’t forget your masks!” This phrase has been the daily refrain in my household for my children for the past two years. Masking became as natural as wearing a coat in the winter, and going without a mask would have seemed as strange…
Public health requires collective courage [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “To create a healthier, more just, and more equitable world, we must confront the truth, and that requires an act of collective courage. Perhaps there needs to be a whole new consciou…
Where are we going with monkeypox?
Monkeypox has been in the news since May 2022. Barely recovering from the anxieties of COVID-19, the natural question in our mind is how is this all going to play out? We might not have accurate predictions yet, but almost six months into the outbreak,…
COVID-19 and psychiatric units: Keeping clinicians and patients safe throughout the pandemic
Patients running rampant- unmasked, hand unwashed, undistanced. You stand in the nurse’s workstation, watching the chaos ensue while holding the positive COVID test results in your hands. The world slows as you think, “How am I ever going t…
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “ME/CFS is a complex multi-system illness that destroys lives (essentially killing the person yet leaving them alive). It leaves patients with unimaginable fatigue, post-exertional m…
The consequences of unmasking and ending quarantines
The CDC has updated its COVID masking and quarantine guidelines as children return to school and more adults return to work at the end of summer. Unfortunately, the new, less restrictive guidelines are premature. As most people know, the current COVID …
