Medical education has always carried an enormous responsibility: deciding what a future physician needs to know. For generations, the answer seemed relatively straightforward. Give medical students a ...

We measure blood pressure before a patient has a stroke. We check cholesterol before a coronary event. We evaluate vision before impairment interferes with driving or reading. So why is hearing ...

It was bound to happen. We spent years worrying that artificial intelligence would destroy humanity because of cold, unfeeling, Terminator-style logic. We thought Skynet would look at our messy carbon ...

Walk into any exam room today, and you’ll find more than a conversation between a clinician and a patient. Behind every visit is a steady stream of digital interactions: marketing messages, electronic ...

One night, during cross coverage with residents, I was called to provide clinical oversight for a frail older woman admitted from the emergency department. She had multiple comorbidities and a ...

It has already been said, “We will die in the system we create.” The statement raises a larger question: What do we mean by death? Death can be spiritual through excommunication, economic through ...

Care does not have to be finished in one encounter. But it must not be allowed to disappear between encounters. When primary care clinicians say they cannot adequately manage their patients’ concerns ...

This population, either injured workers under workers’ compensation or personal-injury claimants, faces distinct drivers of delayed recovery, including secondary gain concerns, litigation, workplace ...

In the early 1990s, while the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) was formalizing its vision of the “medical home,” we were already living it, without a name. At Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, ...

Read together, the 59 KevinMD posts on violence against health care workers say one thing consistently: it is treated as part of the job, and the people it happens to say it is not. The record holds a ...

Throughout pregnancy, clinicians carefully monitor a woman’s health. Vitals are obtained, laboratory testing is performed, growth is monitored, and complications are identified. Then, a new life is ...

Oluyemisi Famuyiwa, MD is a double board-certified reproductive endocrinologist, infertility specialist, and obstetrician-gynecologist, and the founder and medical director of Montgomery Fertility ...