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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Your genetic test results now arrive on your phone before anyone is available to explain them. So the questions go to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The effectiveness of a health care system is routinely judged by the care patients receive. Far less attention is given to the conditions under which that care is delivered. Health care policy ...

The room was still dark, my cat curled next to me, when I looked at the clock: 4:18 a.m. It was well before my alarm was set to go off, but I knew I wasn’t going to fall back asleep. Reluctantly, I ...

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 ...

Musculoskeletal and mental-health conditions are among the most consequential and costly health challenges in the United States. Musculoskeletal conditions affect more than one-third of U.S. adults ...

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 ...