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 ...

Pregnancy. Marriage. A cancer diagnosis. A sick child. A family tragedy. Too often, something must happen before we start asking what our DNA might tell us. It shouldn't. Genetic screening and ...

As physicians head to the polls, we are afraid for our patients and our profession. We are in a moment of extraordinary turbulence. Administrative overload, political intrusion into clinical care, ...

An older patient who tries to climb out of bed after surgery usually draws attention. Someone lying quietly, answering slowly, or turning away from conversation may ...

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 ...