Category: Infectious disease

A careless misdiagnosis. A death. A lawsuit.

They loved long walks through the woods in California. They were sweethearts in high school through college. If they wanted to take a break from their walks, the dogs would gang up on them and insist on continuing. The trees, the skies, the quiet, the …

Why HIV and COVID-19 vaccine screening should go together

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans got accustomed to regularly answering a series of questions about our risk of exposure to COVID and our possible symptoms. For more than two years, our country remained laser-focused on this protection, demonstra…

Preparing for fall and winter: Importance of COVID-19 vaccination during the flu season [PODCAST]

This article is sponsored by Novavax. In this special sponsored episode. I’m joined by Dr. Filip Dubovsky, chief medical officer at Novavax, to discuss topics like COVID-19 and influenza in the fall and winter seasons, the importance of education…

Advice from a pediatrician during the viral surge

As is the case throughout the country, central Ohio is in the midst of a viral surge with an unusually high number of ill children for this time of the year, leading to long delays in our urgent cares and emergency departments, in our primary care offi…

My one case of COVID impacted dozens of lives [PODCAST]

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “If any of those people get infected, their illness will potentially impact dozens more. COVID infection may now be ‘just a cold,’ at least for the vaccinated. But no one …

Why psychological explanations for long COVID are dangerous [PODCAST]

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 …

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…

My PPD was a stumble, but am I really past the trauma?

The sound of beeping monitors of ICU, the blood pressure cuff going off on a patient after having detected an unsatisfactory read undisplayable on the screen, hearing a child cry while walking past ED rooms. These sounds, not alien to the ears of a phy…

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,…