Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “As we continue this journey as a family in what will likely be an even more challenging six months ahead, the last six months have provided lifelong lessons. Equipped with these lear…
Category: primary care
The solution to America’s primary care shortage is direct primary care
Primary care in the United States is on the brink of collapse. Primary care providers suffer existential burnout, are the lowest compensated among all medical specialties, and there is a crisis-level shortage of primary care physicians, especially in h…
What consumers want from telehealth
After becoming more familiar with telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of consumers today are realizing the value and convenience of virtual visits for minor urgent issues, chronic disease management, and mental health services. At…
26 hours in a day: the impossible math of providing quality care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “Until I have dedicated time during the week to tend to administrative tasks, I must work 12 to 14 hours most days just to stay afloat. If I fail to work at least 12 hours per day, my…
Gil Scott-Heron’s “Winter in America” is upon us
For me, the cheerful musical sounds of the holiday season invariably give way to a somber song: Gil Scott-Heron’s “Winter in America.” Dubbed the “Godfather of Rap,” Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011) embraced diverse musical sty…
Physicians: Are we still the good guys?
In the very realistic fictional world of The White Coat Diaries by Dr. Madi Sinha, a first-year internal medicine resident goes through a harsh initiation into the realities of medical training. Protagonist Norah Kapadia encounters a complication of a …
The demise of primary care in America
An excerpt from Patients in Peril: The Demise of Primary Care in America. The last 100 years have seen an astonishing drop in the percentage of American physicians who practiced primary care. In the early 1930s, 87% of private practice physicians were …
When doctors develop [patient] portal hypertension [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “Physicians today are confronting yet another epidemic, one that affects doctors directly and is not caused by a virus. It is the result of the ‘patient portal’ through wh…
An expert’s advice about staying in private medical practice
Most physicians are aware of our nation’s disintegration of private medical practices. Bailing out of private medical practice for financial or other reasons predicts the takeover of government-controlled employed medical practice as well as the …
Primary Care 2.0: new thinking and practice redesign [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “When my colleagues and I visited high-performing primary care clinics across the country, we sought insights to inform a new model for providing the most efficient and high-quality c…
