The first time I treated a newborn with the same congenital heart defect my unborn son was expected to have, I hesitated at the doorway. I couldn’t stop picturing my own baby intubated and sedated, a ...

Read together, the 198 KevinMD posts on diabetes and obesity say one thing consistently: telling patients to eat less and move more did not work, and the doctors writing have spent fifteen years ...

Read together, the 544 KevinMD posts on aging and dementia, by geriatricians, other doctors, nurses, and families, say one thing consistently: the system that cares for older people was built for ...

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 ...

I have never asked medicine to promise me a cure. I have asked it to help me stay alive long enough to come home to my children. My medical record is not subtle. Recurrent pancreatitis led to sepsis ...

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! You drive home after a long shift and see someone standing at the roadside. It turns out to be a sign. ≈ had that ...

Roughly half of American children receive their health care through Medicaid or CHIP. These programs were legislated to cover them, and the choice has been made (repeatedly, across decades and both ...

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 ...

“Your tests are normal.” “There is nothing dangerous going on.” “This is good news.” “You are going to be OK.” We usually say these things with good intentions. We want to reduce fear, provide ...

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 ...