This month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new 173-page toolkit to help states ensure more effective and less costly autism care for children. The launch came as ...

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 ...

A patient recently told me she hadn’t seen a doctor in six years. Not because she felt perfectly healthy, but because nothing had ever felt “bad enough” to justify an appointment. By the time she came ...

“Do No Harm” is perhaps the most famous medical maxim. But reciting it is one thing; living by it is another. Sometimes, the question of “harm” is up for debate. Throughout history, physicians have ...

If you take Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, or Zepbound, or you are simply trying to make sense of GLP-1s (glucagon-like peptide-1) and GIPs (glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide), you may have ...

Health care has never had more data. The industry generates approximately 30 percent of the world’s data volume, and that share continues to grow faster than nearly every other industry. Electronic ...

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 ...

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 ...

A physician says she is exhausted after months of working short-staffed. Burnout. A resident feels increasingly detached from patients after repeated 80-hour weeks. Burnout. A doctor cannot stop ...

I currently split my time between two worlds. I see patients in clinic and also work on AI and innovation in the health system. Most days, the dichotomy is an asset. Some days, it feels like it is two ...

Read together, the 158 KevinMD posts on physician careers say that doctors are trained for one job and then left to work out every other part of a career alone: how to read a contract, what a signing ...