A COUNTRY DOCTOR, MD | CONDITIONS | NOVEMBER 8, 2018 MEDPAGE TODAY’s KevinMD.com I don’t know how many times a patient has told me, “I was in therapy once, and it didn’t help.” My response is always: “That’s like saying ‘I saw a movie once [...]
TIME Health > Diet/Nutrition Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude, good-will and gluttony. While many people enjoy the holiday feast with abandon, some dieters and healthy eaters stress over the idea of consuming a huge number of calories in one [...]
KevinMD.com Giannina L. Garces-Ambrossi Muncey, MD | Physician | October 25, 2018 There are medical honors so rare you don’t even know they exist. When you’re trudging through the slog of PBK/AOA/other — ultimately meaningless — letters, these seem to be [...]
KevinMD.com Tracy Cardin, ACNP | Physician | July 25, 2018 So out in the varied land of hospital medicine, I have noticed something that I have no clear explanation for. It turns out there is often a gap in productivity between [...]
KevinMD.com Ira Nash, MD | Physician | August 28, 2018 A colleague recently sent me a link to the American College of Cathopathic Physicians a new organization whose mission “is to protect the professional autonomy and advocate for a full, broad scope of practice [...]
KevinMD.com Christopher Johnson, MD | Physician | November 13, 2018 The stethoscope. Nothings says “I’m a doctor” more than the stethoscope in a pocket or draped around the neck. Forty-five years ago when I got my first one, a gift from [...]
TIME By Markham Heid November 7, 2018 During cold season, people often search for natural cold remedies and immunity boosters. Echinacea has long been rumored to both prevent and knock out colds. But the evidence in favor of the herbal supplement [...]
KevinMD.com Varun Verma, MD | Physician | May 9, 2018 We had no choice in becoming the “crazy” family that left a hospital against medical advice. Our four-day-old daughter was completely helpless, her condition deteriorating and the staff was ignoring our [...]
The first patient, let’s call him Mr. Smith, called up one day last week with a brand-new symptom, which after a phone call was ultimately determined to be disturbing enough that he was offered a same-day appointment. After coming in that [...]
MEDPAGE TODAY's Kevin MD.com Annie Ray, MD | Physician | October 29, 2018 Dear patients: A few things come up daily in my office that need to be addressed. I’m just going to put these out there in the blogosphere in [...]