Autism behavior therapy runs almost entirely outside medicine. See why physician-led care, not more therapy hours, is what ...
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 ...
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! An eye surgeon who used to see forty patients a day now sees one to three in a morning, and he has no staff. Oren Fass, ...
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 ...
Oluyemisi Famuyiwa, MD is a double board-certified reproductive endocrinologist, infertility specialist, and obstetrician-gynecologist, and the founder and medical director of Montgomery Fertility ...
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 ...
I very recently started work at a new hospital as part of a yearly rotation while in training. This hospital has a fire board with the names of staff, followed by two small circles containing the ...
Read together, the 741 KevinMD posts on children’s health say one thing consistently: the pediatricians and other doctors writing spend most of their time talking parents down from fear and the system ...
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 ...
Read together, the 479 KevinMD posts on women’s health say one thing consistently: the conditions women describe were dismissed, and the doctors writing agree with them. Endometriosis diagnosed after ...
Read together, the 307 KevinMD posts on medical ethics say one thing consistently: the four principles are easy to recite and do not decide the hard cases. Physicians on the site describe informed ...
A surgeon’s kids FaceTime him from their iPads while he is in the operating room, and he cannot pick up. Alyssa Kressel, a strategic communications professional, has spent more than fifteen years ...