Money has become an increasingly dominant measure of success in modern society. Wealth, once considered a means of achieving security, independence, and a comfortable life, is too often treated as an ...

Few of us would tell a patient with moderate-to-severe depression to wait it out alone. Many of us do exactly that for ourselves. Physicians develop depression at rates comparable to or higher than ...

Surgical training still runs on the model it did decades ago. Everything around it has changed. Danny Goel walks you through what that mismatch costs. He is an orthopedic surgeon, and this episode is ...

Dr. Fady Hannah-Shmouni’s recent KevinMD essay, “Continuing medical education needs a tutor, not a lecture,” makes a case I share without reservation. Slide decks and ten-question quizzes survive ...

Cara Lunsford is a nurse and vice president of health care policy and clinical solutions at Relias. She has eighteen years of nursing experience, including over a decade in pediatric oncology, and has ...

You can learn more from watching a patient walk down the hallway than from the rest of the exam. Most exams happen sitting or lying down. Narinder Singh Parhar is an internal medicine physician and ...

Six days. $20,000 in legal fees. One advance directive (living will) applied too soon. A 60-year-old man suffered complications after cardiac catheterization, developing acute kidney injury from the ...

A patient can leave a medical appointment with an explanation, a printed instruction sheet, and a question that has not occurred to them yet. The question may arrive while arranging a ride, talking to ...

She was the most important person in my life. My mom. The woman whose hands had held mine Before I understood the meaning of holding on, Whose voice was woven into the fabric of my childhood, Whose ...

Only 4 in 10 caregivers say a doctor asked how the patient prefers to communicate. The patients who cannot answer often have the most to report. Chris Ross is a speech-language pathologist and school ...

Gratitude is easy to preach and hard to feel on a bad day. One physician spent a 40-year career learning to practice it on purpose. Scott Abramson is a neurologist and author. This episode is based on ...

Dopamine agonist withdrawal syndrome (DAWS). That is its name. Named in the literature since 2010. Diagnostic criteria exist. It affects, by conservative estimate, one in five to one in four patients ...