Your pager goes off in the middle of the night. You slip out of bed, trying not to wake your spouse, and call the emergency department back from the guest room. You hope it was a missed page so you ...

It’s been a great summer, but we’re also looking forward to getting back into the school routine. This was my first summer off since my second year of medical school. For almost twenty years, my ...

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 ...

“What was cancer, Grandpa?” These were words I hoped to hear from my grandchildren. As a practicing physician for over forty-five years, I wasn’t sure whether futuristic care would include finding a ...

This page lists every episode of The Podcast by KevinMD published in 2025, 349 in all from January to December, with the guests and, for 309 of them, one sentence from the guest’s answer to the show’s ...

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 ...

Last month, I took on five new patients who were already prescribed stimulants. I had not met any of them in person before. Each came to me with a diagnosis, an active Schedule II prescription, and a ...

The 1960s marked the end of “the good old days” of America’s health care system. In those days, there were no HMOs, PPOs, medical exchanges and the like; there were just doctors, hospitals, and health ...

Imagine if we only treated lung cancer and never tackled smoking. Is that what we’re doing with depression? We always ask people struggling with depression to reach out. But maybe we should also ask ...