Michael Palladino is a health care executive. Walk into any exam room today, and you’ll find more than a conversation between a clinician and a patient. Behind every visit is a steady stream of ...

Read together, the 479 KevinMD posts on women’s health say one thing consistently: the conditions women describe were dismissed, and the doctors writing agree with them. Endometriosis diagnosed after ...

Walk into any exam room today, and you’ll find more than a conversation between a clinician and a patient. Behind every visit is a steady stream of digital interactions: marketing messages, electronic ...

There are plenty of things we tend to accept as part of getting older: turning the television up, struggling to follow conversations in restaurants, or asking people to repeat themselves because ...

Read together, the 544 KevinMD posts on aging and dementia, by geriatricians, other doctors, nurses, and families, say one thing consistently: the system that cares for older people was built for ...

Care does not have to be finished in one encounter. But it must not be allowed to disappear between encounters. When primary care clinicians say they cannot adequately manage their patients’ concerns ...

Read together, the 158 KevinMD posts on physician careers say that doctors are trained for one job and then left to work out every other part of a career alone: how to read a contract, what a signing ...

Consider what happened in Walker County, Georgia, in the fall of 2025. Multiple middle schoolers became ill after eating gummies at school, though even the eventual headcount was never fully settled, ...

Read together, the 449 KevinMD posts on heart disease, by cardiologists, other doctors, and patients, say one thing consistently: the fights are about prevention, not treatment. Nobody on the site ...

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 doctors who provide it, is not the treatment but ...

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 ...

What anxiety feels like emerges through racing thoughts, sleepless fear, and the return of hope. See how an outstretched hand helps the light enter again.