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 ...

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 ...

When you can’t speak for yourself, a living will is supposed to speak for you. Too often, it doesn’t. Seventy percent of U.S. adults don’t have one, and those who do often keep it in a drawer at home.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A meaningful portion of my practice involves reconstructive work, not the kind that follows trauma or cancer, but the kind that follows cosmetic procedures that went wrong. Patients come to me after ...

The last patient leaves around six. Dinner happens, eventually, and the kids go down around eight. The laptop comes back out after that, open to a stack of notes from a day that had exactly zero room ...

An eye surgeon who used to see forty patients a day now sees one to three in a morning, and he has no staff. Oren Fass, a board-certified ophthalmologist and cataract surgeon, has been an employed ...