Palliative physician Kirsten Engel and writer Medha Tripathi on why dying patients with no family can wait weeks for a court order before hospice.

This page lists every episode of The Podcast by KevinMD published in 2026, 230 in all from January to October, with the guests and, for 201 of them, one sentence from the guest’s answer to the show’s ...

Data through September 30, 2026; reading data as of October 4, 2026. Clinicians wrote about AI this quarter more than about anything else: 77 essays by 59 different authors. Readers spent less time ...

Last month, I took on five new patients who were already prescribed stimulants. I had not met any of them in person before. Each came to me with a diagnosis, an active Schedule II prescription, and a ...

A routine EKG at my annual physical was supposed to be uneventful. Instead, it ended my marathon career. This past winter, I was diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), ...

Most of us have a well-rehearsed speech for patients with elevated blood sugar. We talk about the heart. The kidneys. The eyes. The feet. We walk through the whole organ-by-organ checklist a glucose ...

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 ...

America spends nearly a fifth of its economy on health care, yet chronic disease keeps rising and prevention lags. Narinder Singh Parhar, an internist and intensivist with four decades of experience ...

For many physicians, the first truly useful encounter with generative AI has been remarkably mundane. It takes notes. Ambient AI listens to the encounter, organizes the conversation, drafts the ...

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 ...

A new scoping review in npj Digital Medicine should be read by every clinician who treats serious mental illness. Diel, Torous, and colleagues reviewed 119 articles on the mental health harms of large ...

Every night on mainstream streaming platforms, I see the same rotation of charity commercials: protect dogs, save Syrian children, shelter American runaways, support childhood cancer care, preserve ...