Hosted by Kevin Pho, MD, The Podcast by KevinMD shares the stories of the many who intersect with our health care system but are rarely heard from. New episodes every day, about 15 minutes each.
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Every episode ends with the same question: What take-home message do you want to leave with the KevinMD audience? The answers, quoted from every transcribed episode and attributed to the guest by name and date, are collected in Take-home messages: what physicians say when asked to leave one.
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Ketamine made headlines for the wrong reasons, and people who could be helped by it are staying away. Jim Ellwood is an anesthesiologist who has given ketamine in the operating room and taken …
Ketamine for depression: what actually makes it dangerous [PODCAST]
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You can have five doctors and still have no one actually in charge of your care. That gap is where patients get lost. In this episode, retired surgeon and patient advocate Alan P. …
When you have five doctors and no one is directing your care [PODCAST]
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A resident read a student’s personal statement and asked why she didn’t just use ChatGPT. The comment landed like a wound. In this episode, certified coach and professor Kathleen Muldoon returns to unpack …
She spent weeks on her personal statement. Then someone asked why she didn’t use AI. [PODCAST]
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At one university, the share of students receiving disability accommodations rose sevenfold in a decade. Is that progress? In this episode, health care educator and patient advocate Richard A. Lawhern argues that psychiatric …
Why overdiagnosis is failing the students it claims to help [PODCAST]
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After 20 years as a pediatrician, she stopped believing burnout meant she couldn’t hack it. The problem was never her. In this episode, pediatrician and physician career development coach Gita Balakumar reframes burnout …
What a dragonfly teaches physicians about burnout and self-compassion [PODCAST]
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At 2 a.m., a surgeon needed an answer fast and had no one to ask. So he built the tool himself, with no coding background. In this episode, consultant cardiac anesthesiologist Ahmed Elsonbaty …
How a doctor with no coding background built his own bedside AI tools [PODCAST]
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When his shifts were cut during the pandemic, he took a telemedicine job to pay the bills and ended up loving it. Suneer Chander is an emergency physician who co-wrote the article “Read more…
Why telemedicine should be a career, not a side gig [PODCAST]
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He was sued for a case he barely remembered, and five years later it pushed him out of medicine. It is not just malpractice. Jordan Grumet is an internal medicine physician and the …
Doctors and patients are not the enemy here [PODCAST]
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She built a thriving practice in Manhattan and appeared all over the media. Then she walked away, and it was never burnout. Samantha Nazareth is a gastroenterologist and the author of the memoir …
Leaving her practice to reinvent herself from scratch [PODCAST]
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A teacher came in for migraines and weight loss with a stack of leaky gut test results and a diagnosis that never fixed her. Shiv K. Goel is a board-certified internal medicine and functional medicine physician who argues that leaky gut is …
Your leaky gut tests aren’t fixing you [PODCAST]
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A young patient walks in with ordinary back pain and leaves on a path that can quietly weaken the muscle holding the spine together. Francisco M. Torres is an interventional physiatrist who noticed these patients coming back to him sooner, and traced …
A back procedure that can weaken a young spine [PODCAST]
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For years, doctors told this pediatrician her pain was fibromyalgia and depression. It was quietly starving her aorta. Victoria Rundus is a board-certified pediatrician who spent four years being misdiagnosed before an ER physician …
A wrong diagnosis that almost killed a doctor [PODCAST]
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A tech founder used one pediatrician’s public advice to train her own AI. Sonal Patel decided doctors should own the tools built on their knowledge instead. Patel is a pediatrician and neonatologist who built and controls her own AI for the fourth …
Who should own the AI that doctors built [PODCAST]
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Your doctor may help you live longer, but has likely never asked if intimacy still matters to you. In this episode, Michael Reed, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, certified menopause practitioner, and fellowship-trained cosmetic gynecologic surgeon, explains why so many women are never given …
Why your doctor never asks if intimacy still matters to you [PODCAST]
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Your blood pressure is fine. Your cholesterol looks great. So why do you still feel exhausted, wired, and unwell? Internal medicine and functional medicine physician Shiv K. Goel returns to explain what standard lab panels miss when chronic stress quietly reshapes the …
When your labs are normal but you still feel sick [PODCAST]
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A medical student offered a professor $1,000 to write their residency essay, and the reason why was not laziness. In this episode, Kathleen Muldoon, a certified coach and medical education professor, shares what she learned when she sat that student down for …
Medical students aren’t cheating on their essays: They’re afraid [PODCAST]
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A 30-year-old soldier can have the knees of a 60-year-old. Not from one bad injury, but from carrying a load every single day for years. Family medicine and sports medicine physician Ann Lebeck returns to explain why she came to see soldiers …
Why soldiers are athletes and their bodies pay for it [PODCAST]
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Your patients are asking ChatGPT what’s wrong with them before they call your office, and getting an answer in seconds. In this episode, Tod Stillson, a board-certified family physician, medical device inventor, and health care entrepreneur, explains how AI chatbots became the …
Doctors are now the second opinion, AI is the first [PODCAST]
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A patient asked for her knee surgery by its brand name. She used the term perfectly. She just had no idea what it actually meant. Orthopedic surgeon Cory Calendine, who does nearly 700 to 800 hip and knee replacements a year, returns …
When patients ask for a knee surgery brand they don’t understand [PODCAST]
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Two families raise their kids in completely different ways. Both are doing it right. So why do clinicians so often assume one of them is doing something wrong? Najat Fadlalla, a developmental behavioral pediatric fellow, returns to unpack how cultural bias creeps …
When good parenting looks different across cultures [PODCAST]
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