The New York Times calls KevinMD “a highly-coveted publishing place for doctors and patients.” KevinMD has been recognized as one of Medscape’s Top 20 Physician Social Media Influencers, named to PR ...

"I don't know yet." They're only four words, but they may be among the most important words a physician can say. Most of us are uncomfortable with uncertainty, especially when our health is involved.

I am a practicing hematologist-oncologist in the U.S., standing here against all odds I could never have imagined overcoming. It was not a linear journey; I arrived ...

Men are less likely to be diagnosed with depression, less likely to seek treatment, and yet also die by suicide at roughly four times the rate of women. Those three facts tell one story. Together they ...

A patient receives a hospital bill and does what every responsible article tells them to do. They check it. They see room charges, imaging charges, pharmacy charges, supplies, insurance adjustments, ...

If every physician in your organization woke up tomorrow with complete financial freedom, how many would still choose to stay? It is a simple question, but the answer could reveal more about your ...

Doctors and nurses are trained to take excellent care of other people’s health, and often don’t look after their own. Close to half the health care workforce has burnout, and it shows in rounded ...

The office chairs most of us sit in all day have little science behind them, and the popular fixes may not be much better. Turner Osler is a trauma surgeon and epidemiologist. This episode is based on ...

There I was lying on my bathroom floor: semi-conscious, teeth-chattering; relieved my fever-sweat was plastering my back to the cold tile. I was weak, trying my best to will my body to the warmth of ...

A physician was fired by the doctors she had trained, in part because she preferred to see her own patients herself. Moral injury, she argues, does not require 100-hour weeks. Sarah A. Vlach is a ...

Surgical training still runs on the model it did decades ago. Everything around it has changed. Danny Goel walks you through what that mismatch costs. He is an orthopedic surgeon, and this episode is ...

An emergency physician bought a new iPad and found 53 phone numbers he had forgotten were there. Each one was a family he put on a video call to say goodbye before he intubated their loved one. Howie ...