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 ...

I’ve watched the coverage of this case the same way most of us have. Clips from the courtroom keep looping across television, podcasts, and every social feed. A mother killed her three children. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One medical expert for the plaintiff attorney is most credited for the outcome in a widely publicized obstetric malpractice case against an academic medical center. That outcome is, at most, dubious, ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) lays bare a brutal truth about American health care: When coverage depends on politics, paperwork, employment status, and state budgets, people lose care, and ...

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 ...

The hidden agenda of medical school curricula is loud and clear: Acuity equals status. Students are taught that the "best and brightest" belong in the windowless trauma bays of the ER or the ...