Abstract The United States health care system faces escalating costs, access disparities, and significant physician burnout. Direct primary care (DPC) offers a transformative approach by emphasizing patient-centered care, price transparency, and reduce…
As a licensed practitioner of family medicine who is also the majority owner of a small medical practice, I feel a responsibility to provide top-quality care for my patients as well as comprehensive health insurance coverage for my employees. The probl…
As a physician, I’ve spent years working to provide care that’s compassionate and focused on the patient. But everything changed when I found myself on the other side of the system—as a patient. Suddenly, I saw health care through a new len…
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! How can gratitude guide health care professionals in navigating political uncertainty, misinformation, and the challenges of post-election transitions? Join us as Janet A….
As health care leaders and providers, our ultimate mission is to provide safer care for all—but there’s a flaw in our system. Today, as many as 4 in 10 patients are harmed in primary and ambulatory health care settings, and up to 80 percent of th…
In the realm of shift-based health care, the term “job sharing” doesn’t technically exist—after all, shifts aren’t a single continuous job to split. Yet, still, a full-time workload is considered the norm, and the concept of div…
An excerpt from Yankee Doctor in the Bible Belt: A Memoir. Doctoring in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, I met Mrs. Snoop, a new patient at the clinic. She is 38 years old. Her chief complaint, according to her husband, is “not wanting to have …
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! We’re joined by Diane W. Shannon, an internal medicine physician and physician coach, to explore the hard lessons of career sustainability and the importance of inte…
A response to “The overwhelming reality of primary care: Why doctors still persevere.” I am a primary care patient in a rural area of a western state, and I have not seen the same physician or other provider more than two or three times in …
I started my career in medicine with the same noble intentions that many physicians share—to help and care for people. But like so many of my colleagues, I quickly found myself consumed by a broken system. Three years into my medical career, I was an o…
