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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

With 66 percent of U.S. adults, some 131 million people, now taking prescription drugs, and with Medicare drug spending running into the hundreds of billions, it is worth asking how the pharmaceutical ...

After surgery, patients are often asked a familiar question: “How bad is your pain on a scale from zero to ten?” Naturally, most people want that number to be zero. As doctors, we want our patients to ...

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

Read together, the 95 KevinMD posts on board certification say one thing consistently: physicians value passing the boards once and have spent a dozen years arguing that the cycle of recertification ...

Every patient who has spent time in an emergency department knows it’s overcrowded. They’ve sat in the waiting room for hours. They’ve watched physicians move fast and nurses move faster. They’ve ...

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 ...