Your pager goes off in the middle of the night. You slip out of bed, trying not to wake your spouse, and call the emergency department back from the guest room. You hope it was a missed page so you ...

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 recent study found that, compared with people from other cultures, Americans are less likely to report feeling a sense of obligation to be present for their friends. If that reflects a broader ...

For most of my career, my work has begun at the moment a patient is most vulnerable. As an anesthesiologist, I meet people at the threshold of surgery, often anxious, sometimes in pain, and always ...

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 2020, 221 in all from June to December, with the guests and, for 188 of them, one sentence from the guest’s answer to the show’s ...

Medical training hands you a ready-made group of friends. Then it ends, and many women physicians find themselves starting over alone in a new city. Cassie Burton Greenbaum is a pediatric critical ...