A man is dying. He cannot speak, and no one in his life can say what he would have wanted. Kirsten Engel is a palliative medicine physician, and Medha Tripathi is a health writer and incoming ...

Someone you love says they are fine. They still eat, they still go to work, and no one asks a second time. Nneka Oluoha is an internal medicine physician and the author of a novel about a Nigerian ...

A trauma surgeon spent two decades on call for the worst nights of other people’s lives. Then he ran his hospital’s pandemic response. Then he could not function. Jeremy Heffner is a trauma surgeon, ...

It was in late spring of 1964, just a day after graduating from high school, that a diminutive farm girl packed her belongings and bade farewell to the life she had known in the Smoky Mountains of ...

This page lists every episode of The Podcast by KevinMD published in 2022, 364 in all from January to December, with the guests and, for 304 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 ...

The triage note read, "The patient wants her thyroid checked." On the stretcher, fully dressed, sat a 65-year-old woman with her family members at the bedside. She said she had been feeling weak and ...

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 ...

For much of my medical training, I assumed there were two basic career paths for physicians. You could become an employed physician, trading some autonomy for stability and institutional support. Or ...

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 ...

A recent Guardian article described a troubling reality unfolding across England: Nearly 1 million people are waiting for ADHD assessments, approximately 295,000 are awaiting autism evaluations, and ...