Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join us for a touching and insightful episode with Natasha Khalid, a geriatrics fellow, as she shares her personal experience of dealing with ICU psychosis in a loved one. Natasha takes us …
An excerpt from Lean Out: A Professional Woman’s Guide to Finding Authentic Work-Life Balance. In the third grade, my teacher identified me as a high achiever. Aside from recognition, he “rewarded” me with the opportunity to write an …
Recently I had the unfortunate experience of changing my perspective from being a doctor to becoming a worried family member. My father spent five weeks in a hospital with a severe infection. Visiting hours were restricted to one hour per day – the aft…
Physician non-compete clauses have been a controversial topic for many years. These clauses within contractual agreements prevent physicians from joining or operating a competing practice within a certain distance or timeframe. With the Federal Trade C…
I am smart, I swear. I graduated near the top of my class in medical school, I swear. I kicked butt on the Step exams, I swear. But ask me to manage someone’s diabetes or hypertension; No, thank you! Thank God for hospitalists, a set of remarkabl…
The public and the politicians may be missing the boat when they do not question the role of hospitals in the present health care debate. The hospitals have hung themselves out to be the “good guys” who hire and keep good doctors and promot…
I am asking my fellow medical professionals to give a sincere show of hands: How many of you are terrified of your fate should you become the patient? The prospect of navigating the medical system as a patient should strike fear in your heart, especial…
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, we sit down with attorney and author Michael J. Grace to discuss his book, The Mumbo Jumbo Fix: A Survival Guide for Effective Doctor-Patient-Nurse Communication. As a defe…
There’s some pretty good evidence out there that women physicians provide really good medical care—in some cases, better than their male counterparts. For instance, a 2017 study showed that hospitalized Medicare patients under the care of a femal…
It felt like a monumental moment when I started my career in medicine. I grew up largely on the borderline of poverty; my parents lived check to check with my sister and me. Neither of them had gotten a college education, and they sacrificed much of th…
