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The Podcast by KevinMD

by Kevin Pho, MD
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  • Patients on ventilators have things to say, and no way to say them

    October 13, 2026 · 15 min

    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 administrator. This episode is based on…

  • How to be grateful when you are not a grateful person

    October 12, 2026 · 18 min

    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 his article "A physician's three…

  • Stop calling it burnout: COVID denial and the wounds ER doctors carry

    October 11, 2026 · 20 min

    An emergency physician bought a new iPad and found 53 phone numbers he had forgotten were there. Each one was a family he put on a video call to say goodbye before he intubated their loved one. Howie Mell is an emergency physician with a…

  • Doctors on social media should ask this question first

    October 10, 2026 · 24 min

    Your patients can see everything you post. Tali Lando was posting funny videos from her office while two of her young patients lay in the hospital struggling to recover, and it left her torn. She is a pediatric otolaryngologist and airway…

  • Trusting the lab over the patient is the new medical error

    October 9, 2026 · 16 min

    The lab says the potassium is critically low. You walk in, and the patient looks completely fine. Duane Penshorn is an emergency physician and author. This episode is based on his article "Automation bias is the new medical error,"…

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  • Hospice waits on a court order when no family can speak for you

    October 8, 2026 · 18 min

    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 Fulbright research scholar. This episode is…

  • Signs of depression families miss, and the stigma behind it

    October 7, 2026 · 18 min

    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 immigrant living with depression. This…

  • Hospitals are replacing bedside ICU doctors with a video screen

    October 6, 2026 · 22 min

    A young mother arrived in the intensive care unit sick but improving. Overnight, her care was handed to a telemedicine physician on a video screen. By morning she was beyond saving. Keith Corl is an emergency and critical care medicine…

  • Doctors hide their PTSD out of fear for their license

    October 5, 2026 · 19 min

    A trauma surgeon spent two decades on call for the worst nights of other people's lives. Then he ran his hospital's pandemic response. Then he could not function. Jeremy Heffner is a trauma surgeon, speaker, and author. This episode is…

  • ICU telemedicine done right is a program, not a doctor on a screen

    October 4, 2026 · 22 min

    A patient in intensive care gets worse at 2 a.m., and the hospital has no critical care doctor in the building. Chris Gallagher, a cardiologist and founder of Access TeleCare, has spent 15 years building virtual care programs inside…

  • Why women doctors leave in their forties and what keeps them

    October 3, 2026 · 19 min

    Women physicians are walking away from practice in their forties, and not because they stopped loving the work. Dawn Sears is a gastroenterologist of 25 years and the founder of GutGirlMD Consulting, where she coaches physicians and runs…

  • Loneliness, not weakness, is driving women out of medicine

    October 2, 2026 · 19 min

    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 care physician and the founder of Off…

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About the show

Social media's leading physician voice, Kevin Pho, MD, shares the stories of the many who intersect with our health care system but are rarely heard from. 15 minutes a day. 7 days a week. Welcome to The Podcast by KevinMD.