Emergency physician Ferdinando Mirarchi and attorney Thaddeus Mason Pope explain why 80 percent of physicians read an advance directive as a DNR order.

Nephrologist Stella Awua-Larbi on the person behind the "difficult patient" label, and the question that can change both burnout and care.

I trained as a physician and spent the first part of my career moving between clinical practice and research, much of it in hematology. The cases that stayed with me were rarely the ones where ...

The most important moment of a medical appointment usually happens at the very end, with a hand on the doorknob. Every physician knows the moment. The visit is over. The official reason for it (the ...

A patient arrives already sure of what is wrong with them. The words they use came from somewhere else. Alan P. Feren is a retired surgeon, health care consultant, and patient advocate. This episode ...

Some people process a terrible event over a week or two and move on. Others replay it for years, and their bodies never settle back down. Faust Ruggiero is a clinical psychologist who has treated post ...

Every nurse who has ever called you at two in the morning remembers how you answered. You remember almost none of them. That asymmetry runs the hospital at night. The caller carries every response ...

You can learn more from watching a patient walk down the hallway than from the rest of the exam. Most exams happen sitting or lying down. Narinder Singh Parhar is an internal medicine physician and ...

As the father of three active boys, including two teenagers approaching driving age, I know the day I hand over the car keys isn't far off. Right now, our days are filled with practices, wrestling ...

Teenage anxiety is real, but if we treat every feeling as a medical issue, we might overlook what is truly important. When a teen says, "I'm anxious," we shouldn't have to choose between saying, "You ...

This page lists every episode of The Podcast by KevinMD published in 2022, 364 in all from January to December, with the guests and, for 304 of them, one sentence from the guest’s answer to the show’s ...