During a busy morning, a junior nurse notices a discrepancy between a patient’s medication order and…
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"Disruptive" behavior is often a cry for help from depleted doctors [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Pediatrician and…
End-of-life care and religion: Reconciling Jewish law and medicine
When my small-group facilitator asked whether withdrawing life support is morally different from withholding it, my…
Medical ethics and AI: Why losing oversight endangers patients
At the end of December 2025, the American Medical Association (AMA) Journal of Ethics ceased its…
Coping with survivor guilt: wisdom from Saadi Shirazi and Viktor Frankl
When someone you love is in a different location and suffering while you are safe, a…
Navigating the international dentist U.S. pathway
The moment I decided to become an American-trained dentist, I was holding a textbook in India.…
The future of employer-aligned DPC and physician autonomy
A piece circulating in the direct primary care community made a confident claim: that the best…
Applied behavior analysis criticism: the closed feedback loop
In engineering, a feedback loop is meant to stabilize a system. In medicine, feedback guides us…
Ecovillages and organic farming could reverse global warming [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Physician and…
Opt-in vs. opt-out: How defaults shape organ donation rates
A few weeks ago, I went to the DMV to renew my driver’s license. At the…