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Obi-Wan Kenobi and Charles Darwin have a COVID conversation
By now, many of you would have read my article,“Who needs scientists? It’s not like we listen to them anyway.” So, let me tell you another fiction story. But, first, I need to give you some background to this story. Many of you would know about the theory of evolution by natural selection andRead more …Obi-Wan Kenobi and Charles Darwin have a COVID conversation originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 3, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/tomi-mitchell" rel="tag" > Tomi Mitchell, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Source Type: blogs

The 7% plan to fix primary care
This is a simple plan that would empower patients, improve the lot of primary care physicians and likely hold down medical costs while improving quality in the health care system. I would first like to present the plan, then elaborate on how it could accomplish the above objectives. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 15, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Policy Health reform Primary care Source Type: blogs

What do you know about breast reconstruction?
Happy BRA Day! October 15 is officially Breast Cancer Reconstruction Awareness Day. It’s a natural time to discuss commonly-asked questions about breast reconstructive surgery. Breast cancer is a devastating diagnosis and the treatment tends to have a direct impact on a woman’s self-esteem, especially if there has been a mastectomy or partial mastectomy. Just knowing breast reconstruction is an option is consoling; it offers hope for many patients. Yet physicians and patients typically have questions about the process of breast reconstruction. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. M...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 15, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Conditions Surgery Source Type: blogs

Mathematics is the new science of medicine
The progression of science in medicine has been as remarkable as it is relentless. From alchemy, chants, purges, and leeches, medicine has progressed to a deep understanding of human form and function through biology, anatomy, and physiology. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 14, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs

How politicians mislead their constituents on health care
When Louisiana resident Andrea Mongler wrote to her senator, Bill Cassidy, in support of the Affordable Care Act, she wasn’t surprised to get an email back detailing the law’s faults. Cassidy, a Republican who is also a physician, has been a vocal critic. “Obamacare” he wrote in January, “does not lower costs or improve quality, but rather it raises taxes and allows a presidentially handpicked ‘Health Landing Pages Choices Commissioner’ to determine what coverage and treatments are available to you.” There’s one problem with Cassidy’s ominous-sounding assertion: It’s false. The Affordable Care Act, c...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 26, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/charles-ornstein" rel="tag" > Charles Ornstein < /a > Tags: Policy Health reform Source Type: blogs

Anti-vaccination beliefs don ’t follow the usual conservative and liberal lines
When health officials learned that the 2015 measles outbreak was caused by clusters of unvaccinated children, Americans once more wanted to understand why some parents do not vaccinate their children. In our highly polarized culture, media commentators and even academics began to connect opposition to vaccination to either the left or right of politics. So a question arises: Who is more likely to be opposed to vaccination, liberals or conservatives? As a sociologist who studies infectious disease, I took a look at this. The answer seems to depend on what question you ask. Because the outbreak started in the wealthy, libera...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 31, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/charles-mccoy" rel="tag" > Charles McCoy, PhD < /a > Tags: Conditions Pediatrics Primary Care Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

Collaboration with hospitalists, rather than competition, improves patient care
It’s been 21 years since Drs. Robert Wachter and Lee Goldman, in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, first described a new delivery model called “hospitalists” – clinicians whose primary professional focus is the care of hospitalized patients. Since that time the healthcare system has seen rapid growth of hospitalist programs across a variety of specialties. In the OB world, I have had the opportunity to observe the entire transition from both sides. In my opinion, the addition of a unit (OB emergency department, or OBED) where every patient presenting to labor and delivery for unscheduled care is ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 1, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/charles-jaynes" rel="tag" > Charles Jaynes, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Hospitalist OB/GYN Source Type: blogs

What ’s love got to do with it: lessons from a dying physician
They came from all corners of the globe to bid him farewell. He looked cachetic, his frail form interrupted by swelling in his abdomen and legs, a result of end-stage pancreatic cancer. It was Dr. Yeat’s last week in the hospital before being transferred to a nearby hospice.  He was now on morphine, and despite severe fatigue and difficulty breathing, he always managed a smile. Some of his visitors were former colleagues; others were friends, previous medical trainees, and mentees. Amidst moments of laughter, crying, and sober reflection, each recounted one anecdote after another of their encounters with Dr. Yeat at som...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 14, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/charles-a-odonkor" rel="tag" > Charles A. Odonkor, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs

Are you an artisan or just a medical professional?
Take a moment to ask yourself the following: 1. Did I come to practice medicine because it was a calling, rather than a possibly lucrative career path? 2. Do I consider the practice of medicine primarily an art, a craft and the consistent application of evidence-based care? 3. Do I respond to inner measures of prideful work more than the appeal of external motivators? 4. Are there lines that cannot be crossed, even if they provide more productivity or profitability? If you replied yes to all four, then it is likely you are an artisan more than solely a professional. By “professional” I mean an individual whose work req...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 28, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/charles-dinerstein" rel="tag" > Charles Dinerstein, MD, MBA < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Crying when a patient suffers a devastating loss
I was a second-year resident, doing a 24-hour shift on maternity care. I’d spent some arduous nights on call with my attending physician, Dr. Campbell. Now, we sat at the nursing station, joking about what this one might bring. “You must be a black cloud,” she teased, accusing me of being one of those unfortunate residents who seem to attract medical emergencies. I laughingly protested, but in fact, these quiet nights worried me. I felt on edge, waiting for something, anything to happen. Finally, the emergency department called to say that a possibly laboring mom was on her way up. We got her name, which ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 10, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/colette-charles" rel="tag" > Colette Charles, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine OB/GYN Source Type: blogs

Shortening time in medical school is a bad idea. Or is it?
Recently, there has been a number of articles on reducing the length of medical training to help ease the physician shortage. And our medical curriculum is due for a major overhaul. Its foundational document, the Flexner report, was released over 100 years ago, and our medical needs and knowledge have changed. Shortening medical education may provide a “bonus” in easing the anticipated shortage of physicians but may have more significant unanticipated consequences. The bonus While estimates vary, we are expected to need an additional 100,000 physicians beyond our current capacity to graduate physicians by 2030. Current...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 20, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/charles-dinerstein" rel="tag" > Charles Dinerstein, MD, MBA < /a > Tags: Education Medical school Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

Will robots replace doctors?
Among the many recurring topics, this year has been the impact of machine learning in our lives, especially the implications for our future work life. Prophecies range from ubiquitous utopian machine servants to a dystopian ravaging, hollowing out the work and economic standing of the middle and lower classes. “What can machine learning do? Workforce […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/charles-dinerstein" rel="tag" > Charles Dinerstein, MD, MBA < /a > Tags: Tech Hospital-Based Medicine Mobile health Primary Care Source Type: blogs

It ’s time to study firearm morbidity and mortality as we do any other public health issue
Among modern industrialized nations, only the United States endures the current public health epidemic of firearm-assisted injury and death. In 2017, nearly 40,000 people were shot to death in the U.S., while proponents of the Second Amendment continue to protect it at all costs — fighting even common sense measures such as limiting access to […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 4, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/charles-nozicka" rel="tag" > Charles Nozicka, DO < /a > < /span > Tags: Policy Public Health & Source Type: blogs

The antibiotics arms race must end
“Cha-ching!” goes urgent care. For your rhinovirus, adenovirus, or seasonal allergies you get a strep screen, flu swab, CBC, and chest X-ray. You get a steroid shot, Rocephin, and Z-Pak. A week later, you present for medical care again, because your virus is no better, and you want a stronger an tibiotic. In the meantime, your […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/charles-w-olson-jr" rel="tag" > Charles W. Olson, Jr., MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

Do physicians have a right to be forgotten?
When we all lived in villages, knowing individual merchants allowed you to identify and avoid the cheats. As we urbanized, brand names became the reputational marker. But when you are dealing on the internet, where no one “knows you’re a dog,” what guarantee do you have? A case involving a Dutch physician who argued that […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 2, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/charles-dinerstein" rel="tag" > Charles Dinerstein, MD, MBA < /a > < /span > Tags: Tech Practice Management Surgery Source Type: blogs