Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join patient advocate Richard A. Lawhern as he challenges prevailing myths surrounding the opioid crisis. With insights from medical literature, he questions the link between opioid prescri…
The annual suicide rate of physicians over the past few decades has amounted to about 400 highly trained and competent American physicians per year and is now increasing. That wipes out about one large medical school four-year class each year in our na…
This article is sponsored by Pfizer. As a primary care provider (PCP) specializing in headaches and migraine, I cannot stress enough the important role of PCPs in diagnosing and treating migraine disease. Almost 40 million Americans and over a billion …
Everyone has phases, stages, and degrees of mental disease throughout their lives, especially children, adolescents, and young adults. It is a part of normal growth and development to go through phases of change. Sometimes, a young person gets stuck in…
Sitting in class was always a terrifying experience, not knowing if I was going to be the next one called on to read. My mind would race ahead trying to figure out a strategy on how to get out of it. I would excuse myself from the room or blame a sore …
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join Cindy Rubin, a pediatrician and breastfeeding medicine specialist, as she discusses the common challenges of nipple discomfort during breastfeeding and the controversial use of all-pur…
“What heart surgeon did Diana date?” According to data from a popular search trend analysis website, this is one of the most highly searched phrases about heart surgery. According to Cosmopolitan, Princess Diana dated cardiac surgeon Hasnat…
“Don’t leave. There are miserable people in this world, and then ones more miserable than the others. My assessment is that you’re in the second category.” Although it has been over a decade since I resigned from my ophthalmolog…
Do you know what most financial advisors say about doctors and how they manage their money? It is not pretty. I have been in those conversations, and stereotypical doctor stories come out. Impulsive purchases, lack of knowledge, and easy to manipulate …
An excerpt from Meet Skulle. This bone goes from the top of my sternum to the top of my shoulder. Can you name it? I have one on each side. Did you guess the clavicle? Cleaver Clavi is my collarbone. The fancy name for collarbone is the clavicle. You c…
