For years, I have heard breast cancer survivors share a common refrain: “I expected to lose…
Category: Insights
Confronting the reality of bullying in medicine today
I still remember the first time I saw what bullying in medicine could do to a…
How the opioid superagonist DFNZ challenges pain medicine
A publication in Nature in April 2026 reports that N-desethyl-fluornitrazene (DFNZ), a modified nitazene and µ-opioid…
Surviving ventricular tachycardia: What I learned as a patient
What happens when the doctor becomes the patient? Is there anything learned or reinforced? For me,…
Physician legal protection: Surviving academic medical center blame
On October 20, 2015, I did something unremarkable: I turned on the GPS app on my…
Why weight regain is a predictable biological response after stopping GLP-1s [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Obesity medicine…
Why bariatric patients struggle with protein and how to fix it
I have treated over 10,000 bariatric patients across my career, and if there is one issue…
When patients ask to pray: Navigating spirituality in medicine
Requests for prayer at the bedside are more common than many clinicians admit. Yet these moments…
Beyond physician burnout and understanding structural immiseration
We have been calling it burnout. The word took decades to arrive, and then it was…
How to win peer-to-peer calls: a medical director's guide
I review your peer-to-peer calls. Here is why you keep losing. I sit on the other…