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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. 15 minutes a day. 7 days a week.
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What happens when the nurses sent to care for your medically fragile child have never even touched the equipment keeping him alive? Patient advocate Ashley Youngdale knows firsthand. As the mother of a …
No nurse is better than a bad nurse in your child’s home [PODCAST]
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What happens when a physician who spent decades treating patients suddenly finds himself on the other side of the exam table, unable to get a simple answer about his own aneurysm? Jeffrey Junig, …
Your doctor saved your life but won’t return your call [PODCAST]
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What if the biggest driver of unnecessary ER visits, malpractice claims, and patient anxiety isn’t a missed diagnosis but a missed sentence? Alan P. Feren, a retired surgeon, independent physician, health care consultant, …
Patients don’t need certainty, they need your reasoning out loud [PODCAST]
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What happens when patients from opposite ends of the political spectrum sit together in your waiting room and start talking like neighbors? Psychiatrist Farid Sabet-Sharghi explores why the medical …
Your waiting room does what social media cannot [PODCAST]
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What happens when a Division I athlete loses 40 pounds, can barely form sentences during practice, and keeps hearing from doctors that it might just be anxiety? Kamiah Gibson, a D1 women’s volleyball …
I ate plain rice and chicken for six months because no one explained celiac [PODCAST]
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What happens when a physician searches her own name online and gets redirected to a billionaire-backed corporate clinic she has no connection to? Stephanie Waggel, a physician and …
I Googled my own name and a corporate clinic I’ve never worked at appeared [PODCAST]
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When was the last time your dentist mentioned that artificial intelligence was scanning your X-rays before you even sat down in the chair? General dentist Sowjanya Gunukula explains how …
AI is already reading your dental X-rays and you probably have no idea [PODCAST]
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In this sponsored episode from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a leading preventive cardiologist walks through the 2026 cholesterol …
2026 cholesterol guidelines: LDL goals, Lp(a), and coronary calcium scoring [PODCAST]
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What happens when a woman is diagnosed with a rare, estrogen-sensitive lung disease at 28, in her first week of residency, with no roadmap for whether she can safely …
She was learning to keep others breathing while losing her own air [PODCAST]
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What happens when a patient makes a reasonable, informed decision to skip a non-mandatory test and the system simply stops? Patient advocate Aaron S. Rosenberg shares how a routine dental visit became a …
He declined routine X-rays and was denied a dental cleaning [PODCAST]
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When did volunteering stop being a choice and start being a condition of professionalism? Pediatrician, certified coach, and mindfulness and yoga teacher Jessie Mahoney realized she had donated over 2,000 hours of uncompensated …
She donated 2,000 hours of unpaid labor before she even noticed [PODCAST]
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What happens when a doctor closes the chart but the patient leaves without understanding what was actually said? Retired surgeon, independent physician, health care consultant, and patient advocate Alan …
His mother-in-law heard “cancer,” went home, and was dead within a year [PODCAST]
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When is the most powerful thing a medical student can do in a patient’s room simply to stop talking? Medical students Jay Pendyala and Jonathan Berg draw on years …
Silence at the chessboard changed how I talk to patients [PODCAST]
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What if the biggest problem with electronic health records was not the technology itself, but that we expected it to transform medicine when it could only lay the foundation? …
Gradually, then suddenly: Dr. Robert Wachter on health care’s giant AI leap [PODCAST]
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What if the moment women stop seeing their gynecologist is exactly when their cervical cancer risk matters most? Nenrot S. Gopep, a physician and public health researcher, joins the …
Why cervical cancer screening drops after menopause, and why that’s dangerous [PODCAST]
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What happens to patients with disabilities when the government signals their lives don’t matter, and what does that mean for the doctors fighting alongside them? Ashna Shome, a pediatrics resident with cerebral palsy, …
I have cerebral palsy and I’m a doctor. Here’s what policy cuts mean for patients like me. [PODCAST]
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What happens when you ask clinicians to hit dozens of quality metrics but never explain why those metrics matter or how to manage them? Kenneth Botelho, founding program director …
Clinicians are failing at value-based care because no one taught them the system [PODCAST]
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What happens when your deepest religious convictions collide with a patient suffering from metastatic cancer and no miracle in sight? Medical student Jonah Rocheeld shares the raw tension between …
Why I would never compromise on withdrawing care until I saw it firsthand [PODCAST]
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What happens when a patient can’t afford the treatment you prescribe but is too embarrassed to say so? Health care executive Adam Cunningham joins the show to unpack the devastating ripple effects of …
Why your patient isn’t filling that prescription (and won’t tell you) [PODCAST]
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What happens when medical students witness dehumanization during clinical rotations but feel too powerless to speak up? Kathleen Muldoon, a certified coach and professor in medical education, joins the show to unpack why …
Silence isn’t neutrality: Why medical students can’t wait to find their voice [PODCAST]
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