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  Why women doctors leave in their forties and what keeps them 03.10.2026 19min

  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 Women in Medicine groups. This episode is based on her article "10 ways to keep women physicians from leaving," published on KevinMD. You will hear why the job asks women to carry patient care, child rearing, and elder care at the same time, how the patient portal routes them 25 percent more messages than male physicians in the same practice, and what has genuinely improved over the last decade. Dawn walks through fixes she has watched work, from half call and half weekends for the first six months after a baby to a handful of extra days off for screenings and staff support to triage the inbox. She also shows you how to ask, using a hostage negotiator's playbook and the reframe that brings a skeptical colleague back to the table. Partner with me on the KevinMD platform. With over three million monthly readers and half a million social media followers, I give you direct access to the doctors and patients who matter most. Whether you need a sponsored article, email campaign, video interview, or a spot right here on the podcast, I offer the trusted space your brand deserves to be heard. Let's work together to tell your story. PARTNER WITH KEVINMD → https://kevinmd.com/influencer SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Loneliness, not weakness, is driving women out of medicine 02.10.2026 18min

  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 Service Mom Co., a friendship matchmaking service for physician moms. This episode is based on her article "Physician loneliness is driving women out of medicine," published on KevinMD. You will hear why friendships get harder to build once you are the attending, and how a schedule with no pattern to it pulls you away from everyone who works ordinary hours. She explains how chronic loneliness turns into burnout and lost career satisfaction, and how the shame around the word lonely keeps physicians from ever saying it out loud. She describes the six-week pilot she ran with 20 physician moms and what made the matches work. Press play for the specific moves she recommends, starting with the reason that waiting until you feel less busy never works. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Diagnosing the data: Applying clinical rigor to AI adoption 01.10.2026 30min

  Fear of AI is not the problem. Refusing to test it is. Eric Jennings, a board-certified, fellowship-trained ophthalmologist and the senior medical director of ophthalmology at ModMed, argues that hesitancy about AI is a protective clinical instinct, and that the right response is the one physicians are already trained to use: appraise it the way you would appraise a new drug or a new procedure. You will hear the line he draws between cautious skepticism, which asks to see the validation data, and paralysis, which demands a guarantee no technology can give. Eric explains how to read a vendor's training set the way you would read the N on a clinical trial, using the pneumonia algorithm that scored about 93 percent in the lab and then failed in clinic because it had learned to recognize portable X-ray machines rather than pneumonia. He lays out the guardrails to put in place on week one of a pilot, the human and technical signs that a practice moved too fast, and why the administrative side of the office, not the chart, is the safest place to start. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Find out more at modmed.com. Press play to hear why he believes AI will arrive as an integrated ecosystem rather than one more bolted-on tool, and why the doctors who use it will replace the doctors who refuse it. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Why more medicine isn't making us healthier 30.09.2026 15min

  America spends nearly a fifth of its economy on health care, yet chronic disease keeps rising and prevention lags. Narinder Singh Parhar, an internist and intensivist with four decades of experience across outpatient, hospital, and ICU care, argues that American medicine has grown top-heavy, brilliant at acute rescue but neglectful of the everyday habits that keep people well. This episode is based on his article "Why scientific medicine alone is not making us healthier," published on KevinMD. You will hear why splitting the body into specialties can lose sight of the whole person, how a few minutes a day of simple exercise may reduce falls and even ease sleep apnea, and why cutting back on unnecessary medications matters as you age. You will also hear his case for paying and respecting primary care physicians more and letting nurses and therapists help patients build lasting habits. Press play to hear which small, repeatable habits he believes do the most to keep you healthy. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Amazon and Uber set the bar that primary care is judged against 29.09.2026 20min

  A car shows up when you click a button and groceries arrive by tonight, but a doctor's appointment takes weeks. Payam Zamani started MY DR NOW while he was still a resident, in a clinic of twelve hundred square feet, and now runs more than eighty of them as founder and chief executive officer. This episode is based on his article "Primary care access is the real problem, not the system," published on KevinMD. You will hear why he says the eight to five scheduled visit exists for the clinic's predictability, not the patient's life, and what changed when his clinics began taking walk-ins every day. He explains how prior authorizations, refills and paperwork were pulled out of the exam room and centralized, and why that made recruiting easier once providers moved to three longer days. He also says the systems copying his extended hours still fail, because the culture was never behind it. You will hear who he counts as his real competition, and why he says the answer is not always more technology. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Why patients stop trusting doctors who listened to them 28.09.2026 17min

  A patient says her hip has hurt for a while. Whether she leaves trusting her doctor depends on what happens next. Alan P. Feren, a retired surgeon, health care consultant, and patient advocate, separates active listening, which makes a patient feel heard, from careful listening, which changes the reasoning. This episode is based on his article "Trust in medicine is restored by method, not empathy," published on KevinMD. He says the history alone gets you about seventy-five percent of the diagnosis, and that the step squeezed out of a fifteen-minute visit is the one deciding whether a plan is usable. He talks about patients called non-adherent who cannot afford the medication, cannot reach the appointment, or are working two jobs. He also explains what happens when a patient arrives with a story already shaped by an AI tool, and why the clinician has to stay its author. You will hear the three things he tells busy physicians to establish first, and the questions he tells patients to ask when the answers never come. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Some relationships work like medicine. Others work like a diagnosis. 27.09.2026 25min

  A patient came in with weight gain nobody could explain. Every test came back fine. Shiv K. Goel is a board-certified internal medicine and functional medicine physician. This episode is based on his article "How relationships affect health, seen from the exam room," published on KevinMD. He treats the people in a patient's life as part of the same picture as sleep, alcohol, and diet. A difficult supervisor and plain loneliness count as stress the way a marriage does. He is careful to say that a hard relationship does not cause disease. It changes the load the body is carrying, and that load shows up physically. You will hear what he rules out first: thyroid disease, anemia, diabetes, and sleep apnea. You will also hear what a flat cortisol curve tells him about long-running stress, and the questions he asks when nothing turns up. He is not a marriage counselor, and that referral belongs to someone else. He closes with two questions, one for physicians and one for everyone else. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Food allergies are treated differently, airline by airline 26.09.2026 22min

  A doctor cracked open an airplane emergency kit and found a sticker saying there was no epinephrine inside. Lianne Mandelbaum, president of No Nut Traveler and airline correspondent for Allergic Living, has spent a decade collecting accounts like it. This episode is based on her article "Epinephrine on airplanes should not depend on the airline," published on KevinMD. You will hear what a proposed federal rule would change, replacing the required medication list with a flexible one and stripping the exemption paperwork that was the only record of which airlines carried nothing. She explains why antihistamines do not belong under an anaphylaxis heading, why one auto-injector is not enough when two passengers react to the same meal, and why nobody knows how often it happens. You will also hear how a food label can look complete, satisfy federal rules, and still omit the allergen. Press play to hear what she is asking people to send the agency before the comment window closes, and the eight cents per at-risk passenger she says the fix would cost. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Staying salaried may now be the riskier bet for doctors 25.09.2026 21min

  An eye surgeon who used to see forty patients a day now sees one to three in a morning, and he has no staff. Oren Fass, a board-certified ophthalmologist and cataract surgeon, has been an employed physician, a practice owner, and an owner who sold to private equity, and he now runs a solo micro practice. This episode is based on his article "The hidden variable in the physician burnout debate," published on KevinMD. You will hear how his agents read incoming faxes, start the scheduling, and apply his billing rules, and why he says this was not feasible three years ago. He is direct about why doctors feel stuck, from the six to twelve month timelines on licenses and insurance panels to the second shift of charting that starts at six in the evening. He also argues that ownership and creativity are the two bets worth making now, and that the salaried job may be the riskier one. You will hear where he thinks the model fits, and where it does not. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Doctors' kids miss them, and the family builds its own fixes 24.09.2026 19min

  A surgeon's kids FaceTime him from their iPads while he is in the operating room, and he cannot pick up. Alyssa Kressel, a strategic communications professional, has spent more than fifteen years alongside her husband's surgical training. This episode is based on her article "What the children of physicians carry," published on KevinMD. You will hear why the usual advice about adjusting hours does not fit a transplant schedule, and why she puts the weight on the time he is home. She talks about the doctors' wives and surgeons' wives groups that offered solidarity when nobody had a fix, about the resentment she is still working through, and about the bracelets she braided from old scrubs that grew into a stuffed animal with a pocket for notes. She also says what she wishes his residency had offered the people waiting at home. If you are in a health care family, or you train the people in one, this conversation names what the kids carry and what one family built to help them hold it. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Why exhaustion can make you see things that aren't there 23.09.2026 13min

  You drive home after a long shift and see someone standing at the roadside. It turns out to be a sign. Chinelle Miller had that happen more than once, and her first thought was that something was wrong with her. She is a physician and multidisciplinary artist. This episode is based on her article "Why seeing things doesn't mean you're losing your mind," published on KevinMD. You will hear what she found when she looked into it, and how the same experience shows up for other people she talked to. She describes what she was told when she raised it with her own therapist, why the same thing can show up with grief, and how she caught herself trying to pathologize her own experience. She explains why she thinks diagnostic terms have become buzzwords, the questions she tells people to ask themselves, and when the answer is to stop researching and ask someone. Stay to the end for her case that the expert, not the internet, is who gets to say it's normal. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Making AI work for physicians 22.09.2026 26min

  Doctors have heard promises about health technology for decades. Now artificial intelligence has to deliver something better than what health care already has. Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, explains where health systems stand with AI today. You will hear why ambient listening became the proof point physicians did not want taken away, and why bolt-on AI tools on older electronic health records could create more burden. Seema lays out the questions to ask before you trust an AI tool, including how it was trained, how it explains its recommendations, and whether a human stays in the loop. She also explains how AI could make value-based care work and which metrics show whether it is paying off. This episode is sponsored by Oracle Health. Find out more at oracle.com/health. Press play to hear where she hopes AI will raise the quality of care and cut administrative cost, and why it only works with the right data. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.oracle.com/health/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Why business pressure and threats ended a career she loved 21.09.2026 14min

  She loved the job for 20 years. She left anyway. Christine King, certified registered nurse anesthetist, returns to explain what changed in the operating room and what it cost her. This episode is based on her article "Why I left health care after almost 20 years," published on KevinMD. You will hear why decisions about whether a procedure happens started to feel like insurance decisions rather than medical ones. You will hear what workplace violence looks like in an operating room, where the threats came less from patients than from the people she worked alongside. You will hear why those incidents so rarely get reported, and why she thinks the newest generation of physicians is already different. You will hear what the stress did physically, and what eased when she stopped. And you will hear what she would tell a student choosing between nursing and medical school. Press play for the one thing she wishes she had done more of, and why she thinks the people behind her already will. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Retirement isn't the end of medicine, it's a second act 20.09.2026 19min

  Many doctors picture themselves practicing until the day they die. Andrea Hayes decided otherwise, and tells you what came next. She is a retired endocrinologist, author, and speaker. This episode is based on her article "From endocrinologist to writer: a doctor's second act," published on KevinMD. You will hear how 30 years in practice, 25 of them independent and five in concierge medicine, ended without a single dramatic exit. She describes the office manager who stole a quarter of a million dollars while she was grieving her father, and how that betrayal pushed her to learn the business side she had ignored. She explains why she now tells physicians to build a plan B, a plan C, and a plan D, and what she found out about publishing after traditional publishers turned her down. She also explains how living with type 1 diabetes since age 15 shaped how she connected with patients. Stay to the end for her case that it is never too late to become someone you did not expect to be. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Blaming the doctor is cheaper than fixing the record system 19.09.2026 14min

  A pediatrician gave a child vaccines the chart said he needed. The record showing he had already had them was buried in the system. Dennis Hursh is a health law attorney and founder of Physician Agreements Health Law. This episode is based on his article "EMR errors get blamed on physicians, not systems," published on KevinMD. The health system did not fix the record system. It counseled the physician and moved to put her on a corrective action plan for failing to follow its vaccine policy. He explains why she resigned rather than carry that on her record, what a corrective action plan does to you at credentialing for the next five years, and why a non-compete means she will not see those patients again after 40 years in that community. He also walks through the contract language he negotiates: an agreed independent reviewer, and 60 days to fix anything the reviewer finds. Stay to the end for his argument that due process belongs in your contract before anyone accuses you of poor quality care. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Why acne, chin hair, and irregular cycles are more than an ovary problem 18.09.2026 16min

  A condition named for the ovaries turns out to run through the muscle, the liver, and the pancreas. Insulin is the signal connecting them, and different organs hear it differently. Oluyemisi Famuyiwa, reproductive endocrinologist and founder of the Montgomery Fertility Center, returns to walk through it. This episode is based on her article "How insulin drives polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome," published on KevinMD. You will hear why the pancreas makes more insulin when muscle stops responding, and why the ovary and the liver are still listening when it does. You will hear what that does to androgen levels, and why acne, chin hair, and stubborn weight show up before irregular cycles. You will hear why body weight is a poor guide to who has PCOS, since lean patients carry the same elevated androgens and irregular cycles. And you will hear which tests she orders and why she works this across internal medicine and endocrinology. Press play for the reframe she leaves clinicians with: this is more than the ovary and more than insulin. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Insurance companies are being sued over directories that aren't real 17.09.2026 19min

  Your insurance company says these therapists take your plan. Most of them do not. That is the allegation behind seven class action lawsuits now moving through courts from Massachusetts to California. Attorney Steve Cohen returns to explain what his firm found when it called the names on those lists. This episode is based on his article "Mental health ghost networks are badly hurting patients," published on KevinMD. You will hear what a ghost network is, and why the problem is worst in mental health. You will hear why the listings stay wrong, which has less to do with sloppy record keeping than with what insurers will pay. You will hear which patients get hurt worst, including the ones whose plans carry no out-of-network benefit at all. And you will hear about the provision buried in most policies that requires your insurer to cover an out-of-network therapist when there is no in-network one. Press play for the two steps he tells patients to take in order, get the care first and fight for the reimbursement second. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Burnout isn't only about autonomy, it's about your bank account 16.09.2026 19min

  Physicians stay in jobs they cannot afford to leave. The wellness conversation talks about resilience and meaning, and never about what is in your bank account. Stanley Liu, cardiologist, financial planner, and founder of DocEmpowered, returns with a concept traditional financial planning does not have. This episode is based on his article "Unlocking career flexibility with a Courage Fund," published on KevinMD. You will hear what separates a courage fund from an emergency fund, and why the difference is intent rather than structure. You will hear how to size one in months rather than dollars, and why a big non-compete or a thin local job market calls for a bigger number. You will hear why this is leverage your employer cannot see, since they may know about your mortgage but not your accounts. And you will hear where it belongs against student loans, retirement, and everything else competing for the same dollar. Press play for the one question he asks before any of the math, which has nothing to do with money. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  Genetic test results, social media advice, and an irreversible choice 15.09.2026 25min

  Your genetic test results now arrive on your phone before anyone is available to explain them. So the questions go to an online mom group, or to ChatGPT, and strangers answer first. Stephanie Waggel, physician and founder of Improve Medical Culture, has been watching that happen in real time. This episode is based on her article "Social media told her to abort her Turner syndrome baby," published on KevinMD. You will hear why a screening result is not a confirmation, and what has to happen before anyone knows for certain. You will hear why familiarity, speed, and distrust of institutions pull patients toward voices they have never met. Artificial intelligence gets a hard look too, since it can be convincingly wrong and learns from other artificial intelligence. And the comment sections run from parents who say their daughter is fine to strangers who say you are torturing the baby. Press play for the checks that separate a credentialed medical voice online from a convincing one. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast
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  A cure for aggressive lymphoma exists, and most patients never get it 14.09.2026 21min

  A treatment exists that can cure aggressive lymphoma after chemotherapy has failed. Only about two in ten eligible patients receive it. Manali Kamdar is clinical director of lymphoma services at the University of Colorado Anschutz, and Paolo Strati is an associate professor of lymphoma and myeloma at MD Anderson Cancer Center. This episode is based on their article "CAR-T therapy can cure cancer. Why is it so underused?" published on KevinMD. You will hear what this therapy asks of a patient, from cell collection through the wait for manufacturing to the weeks spent living near a treatment center. They walk through the barriers a stakeholder summit identified, including the two-week payer authorization that runs while the cancer grows, the small number of accredited centers, and the myth that eligibility works like transplant eligibility. Press play to hear why they say a relapse should trigger a referral, and why they measure success by who can deliver this treatment rather than who receives it. This episode is brought to you by ModMed. Welcome to your new AI-Powered Practice from ModMed. We're transforming specialty care by embedding AI Assistants across your entire workflow. Our all-in-one platform of EHR, patient engagement, practice management, and RCM helps reduce repetitive work while keeping you firmly in control. Trained on de-identified data from nearly a billion patient encounters, this isn't just smarter software. It's a new way of working for specialty medicine, more efficient and more connected to the patient experience. Start building your AI-Powered Practice at modmed.com. VISIT SPONSOR → https://www.modmed.com/ SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST → https://www.kevinmd.com/podcast