Adapted from The New Eugenics in Medicine: Two Novellas About Power, Science, and the Future of Human Worth. The Netherlands’ first reported termination of life in a child between ages 1 and 12 under ...

Read together, the 611 KevinMD posts on surgeons and surgery say one thing consistently: the operation is the easy part to see and the hardest part to judge. Surgeons on the site have argued for ...

Read together, the 449 KevinMD posts on heart disease, by cardiologists, other doctors, and patients, say one thing consistently: the fights are about prevention, not treatment. Nobody on the site ...

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 ...

It was the month of February; there was a different excitement and joy in my family as we were planning my little brother’s Bratabanda. It was special not only because we had a special occasion but ...

After my wife Kathy died, I spent months replaying the events that led to her death. As a physician, I naturally searched for explanations. As a husband, I searched for accountability. What I found ...

As the third-highest opioid-prescribing medical specialty representing 6 to 8 percent of all U.S. opioid prescriptions, orthopedic surgeons carry an outsized share of responsibility for reducing ...

Read together, the 1,255 essays and podcast transcripts on this page say one thing consistently: the hardest part of cancer care, in the words of the doctors who provide it, is not the treatment but ...

Read together, the 1,078 essays and podcast transcripts on this page say one thing consistently: physicians describe primary care as the part of medicine that is worth the most and paid the least, and ...

How do I know if I’m burned out or just unhappy at work? On the surface, this is a straightforward question. Job burnout is one thing; professional dissatisfaction is another. We have validated survey ...

with no one reaching for the brake. and don’t ask too many questions. In a little more than a year, it feels as though the ground beneath us has shifted. A world once familiar has become unsteady, its ...