The ongoing opioid crisis, claiming over 70,000 lives annually in the U.S. according to the CDC’s…
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Exploring the science behind burnout [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Physician Jessie…
Universities must tap endowments to sustain biomedical research
American medical schools and universities once led the world in biomedical discovery, in large part due…
The dying man who gave me flowers changed how I see care
Today for the first time, I got flowers from a grateful patient. And I reflect on…
Could antibiotics beat heart disease where statins failed?
Coronary artery disease is still the world’s number-one killer. That’s despite statins, PCSK9 inhibitors, stents, bypasses,…
Why palliative care is more than just end-of-life support
As doctors, we often tend to focus on solving the problem at hand. We identify the…
What I learned about health care by watching who gets left behind
Before I started medical school, I used to pass the same government hospital every day on…
How market forces fracture millennial physicians’ careers
This first decade of my career as a millennial physician is starting to look as fragmented…
How American medicine profits from despair
American medicine has mastered a perverse art: paying more to achieve less. We call it “cost-cutting,”…
Apprenticeship reshapes medical training for confident clinicians
I’ve worn many hats in my medical career—lab technician, Physician Assistant, Army Captain, and teacher. But…