Read together, the 88 KevinMD posts on immigration and medicine say one thing consistently: the United States depends on immigrant physicians for its rural hospitals and its primary care, and treats ...

Muhamad Aly Rifai, MD is a psychiatrist, internist, and addiction medicine physician, and the founder, chief executive officer, and chief medical officer of Blue Mountain Psychiatry in the Greater ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

After my wife Kathy died, I spent months replaying the events that led to her death. As a physician, I naturally searched for explanations. As a husband, I searched for accountability. What I found ...

How do I know if I’m burned out or just unhappy at work? On the surface, this is a straightforward question. Job burnout is one thing; professional dissatisfaction is another. We have validated survey ...

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 ...

Read together, the 95 KevinMD posts on board certification say one thing consistently: physicians value passing the boards once and have spent a dozen years arguing that the cycle of recertification ...

Adapted from The New Eugenics in Medicine: Two Novellas About Power, Science, and the Future of Human Worth. The Netherlands’ first reported termination of life in a child between ages 1 and 12 under ...

A few days ago, I saw a fake book cover online that was so ridiculous I laughed out loud. It was beautifully designed: deep red. Ornate gold lettering. The kind of cover that looks as though it ...

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 ...