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Average physicians are extraordinary
KevinMD.com Amy Cho, MD | Physician | January 3, 2019 I am just another average physician. It wasn’t my first return from maternity leave, but this busy ED shift wasn’t going well. I kept putting off breast-pumping to complete “just one [...]
Here’s the Best Way to Boost Your Immune System
TIME > Health By Markham Heid December 20, 2018 Some people seem to breeze through cold-and-flu season without so much as a sniffle. What’s their secret? Regular exercise is a prime candidate. “If you look at all the lifestyle factors that [...]
Genuine empathy goes a long way
MEDPAGE TODAY’S KevinMD.com Philip DeGaetano, MD | Physician | December 17, 2018 Not including residency, I have been caring for patients for five years. But was I really caring about them? We all took the oath to do no harm. We all [...]
What a kitten taught me about critical care
MEDPAGE TODAY’S KevinMD.com Gary A. Lindenbaum, MD | Physician | December 2, 2018 I recently read an article entitled “The family said, ‘Do everything.’” It described the case of an elderly patient at the end-stage of life. The article concluded that “If [...]
We need more behavioral health treatment in primary care
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 [...]
Here’s What Eating a Thanksgiving Feast Actually Does to Your Body
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 [...]
Your greatest role as a doctor? Storyteller.
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 [...]
NP/PA vs. physician: Why is there a productivity gap?
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 [...]
Not all doctors are physicians
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 [...]