What pediatricians have written on KevinMD about children's health: fever and sleep, pediatric practice, childhood obesity, cancer and serious illness, abuse and safety, teenagers, and Medicaid. Every ...

Read together, the 414 essays and podcast transcripts on this page say that physicians earn in the top few percent, start a decade late with $200,000 or more in debt, and are taught nothing about what ...

Read together, the 1,255 essays and podcast transcripts on this page say one thing consistently: the hardest part of cancer care, in the words of the physicians who provide it, is not the treatment ...

Read together, the 1,078 essays and podcast transcripts on this page say one thing consistently: physicians describe primary care as the part of medicine that is worth the most and paid the least, and ...

Hospitals and health systems have spent the past several years building AI governance programs. They have formed committees, written policies, reviewed vendors, and debated where these tools belong in ...

with no one reaching for the brake. and don’t ask too many questions. In a little more than a year, it feels as though the ground beneath us has shifted. A world once familiar has become unsteady, its ...

Every physician accumulates evaluations during a career. Most are read once and forgotten. Decades later, while reviewing my Air Force officer evaluation reports from Minot Air Force Base, I ...

My wife and my daughter both have endometriosis. I have spent nearly thirty years working in community health, much of that time leading a federally qualified health center. I know how health care ...

Only 33 percent of patients who use herbs or supplements disclose their use to health care providers, often viewing them as natural and therefore harmless. Targeted history-taking is the ultimate line ...

Most physicians who have ever asked for a raise or tried negotiating their compensation have likely heard some version of the same sentence: “We have a standard package for the whole department. I can ...

Systematic review data puts the prevalence of central sensitization features among knee osteoarthritis patients at approximately 36 percent by validated instrument. More than one in three patients ...

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