Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “I have come to appreciate why doctors find self-directed patients challenging, if not downright difficult. I wish all docs would engage with us, hear us out, and offer an explanation…
Category: Oncology/Hematology
Better guidelines that consider breast density are critical for women’s health
October 27th is the 30th anniversary of the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA). Congress enacted this law to safeguard nationwide access to quality mammography to detect breast cancer in its earliest, most treatable stages. With this Act, the fed…
Say “I love you” often and mean it
I normally start October off by changing my Facebook profile picture to a pink survivor ribbon and celebrating my breast cancer survivorship, but this October was different. I slept on October 1st because I had spent 48 hours at Gulf Coast Medical Cent…
Doctors are like hamsters running on an exercise wheel to nowhere [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “No wonder doctors feel like hamsters running on an exercise wheel to nowhere. And this sense of futility is driving burnout. How much patient care will you get out of docs who have m…
When patients want their doctors to heal [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “I think it’s much more likely that my patients — some of whom are terminal and facing their own mortality; others who are suffering through a multitude of side effects from their can…
A cancer patient’s last wish [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “I smiled, put the lamb curry in front of her, and instructed her granddaughter on how much time to heat it up in the microwave. Val wasn’t in a condition where she could have a long …
End printed medical journals [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “For the better part of two decades in medicine, I considered printed journals an old friend. Getting my latest medical journal in the mail, opening it, enjoying the feel, look, and e…
Is Elon Musk right about the future of medicine?
“Mark my words. AI (artificial intelligence) is more dangerous than the nukes.” – Elon Musk. The other day, as soon as I walked in to work, already running my usual ten minutes late, I was hustling from my office to the clinic when I …
A physician’s reflections with certainty in medicine [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “Lacking a supreme being in which to place our faith, my wife and I decided to make the most difficult decision of our lives and discontinue life support. I still wonder if we made th…
Antibodies are the future of cancer treatment [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “Since President Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971, and despite some great victories and many losses, there continues to be a never-ending battle in this long-fought war that seems…
