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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new 173-page toolkit to help states ensure more effective and less costly autism care for children. The launch came as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A meaningful portion of my practice involves reconstructive work, not the kind that follows trauma or cancer, but the kind that follows cosmetic procedures that went wrong. Patients come to me after ...