I won’t judge you for asking for help because that is how I hope you treat me. It took me five years to accept the fact that I needed help. As I pursued athletic endeavors at the highest level in high school and college, my mind developed a twist…
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Revolutionize your practice: the value-based care model that reduces physician burnout
Nowadays, it’s clear that physician burnout is real. We know the statistics. The American Medical Association reports that physician burnout – defined as a long-term stress reaction involving emotional exhaustion, lack of empathy toward patients,…
The “Blue Zone” asset: This unconventional asset is found in some of the world’s healthiest portfolios
This article is sponsored by Masterworks, the art investment platform. Physicians face a dilemma. U.S. physicians make $237,000 a year on average. That’s 4x more than most Americans. Very impressive if you ask me. But despite high earners, they s…
Rebuilding trust in the patient-physician relationship in the digital health era [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join Arti Masturzo, an internal medicine physician and health care executive, as she shares her insights on the challenges of digital health tools and their impact on the patient-physician …
It’s time to replace the 0 to 10 pain intensity scale with a better measure
Adapted from The Right to Pain Relief and Other Deep Roots of the Opioid Epidemic. Published by Oxford University Press in January 2023. The 0-to-10 pain intensity scale that has become a familiar feature of clinical care had its origin in experimental…
Evidence-based medicine and bias: the truth about common therapies and clinical trials
Evidence-based medicine is a term that attendings like to pepper into their teaching rounds, and medical students like to conspicuously incorporate into their assessment and plan. There is so much clinical trial data out there that it is impossible to …
Reviving the art of medical poetry
It’s often said that medicine is an art: that practicing it requires more than just a knowledge of theory, but a certain flair, intuition, and attention to style. We might agree that medicine has the form of art. But what about medicine as the co…
How healthism and moralizing health are costing us too much [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, we will be joined by Kristen L. Cole, an assistant professor of communication studies. Kristen shares her personal journey with Crohn’s disease and how the pressure t…
The miracle cure: the world’s first successful bone marrow transplant for aplastic anemia
An excerpt from Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution. Late in the summer of 1960, Dr. Clem Finch invited Dr. Don Thomas to Seattle to give a talk about his early experience with transplantation. Clem, who…
Physician burnout: the impact of social media on mental health and the urgent need for change
Burnout is an increasingly common phenomenon affecting approximately 63 percent of physicians. The etiology is multifactorial, with excessive workloads leading to sleep deprivation and curtailed self-care. Social media is a significant contributor to b…
