Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNot all PTSD is the same, and the difference decides the treatment
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. …
1 week, 3 days ago
Why the surgical backlog starts with how surgeons are trained
Surgical training still runs on the model it did decades ago. Everything around it has changed. Danny Goel walks you through what that mismatch costs…
1 week, 4 days ago
Heart and brain got the investment; the musculoskeletal system did not
You can learn more from watching a patient walk down the hallway than from the rest of the exam. Most exams happen sitting or lying down. Narinder Si…
1 week, 5 days ago
Burnout, difficult patients, and the question that changes both
Most patients called difficult have a reason nobody has asked about. Every chart carries labels, and the labels rarely carry the person. Stella Awua-…
1 week, 6 days ago
AI, standing orders, and the 9 p.m. call medicine still cannot handle
A patient with a urinary tract infection calls at 9 p.m. and gets told to call back in the morning. Frustrated patients default to the emergency room…
2 weeks ago
Patients on ventilators have things to say, and no way to say them
Only 4 in 10 caregivers say a doctor asked how the patient prefers to communicate. The patients who cannot answer often have the most to report. Chri…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
How to be grateful when you are not a grateful person
Gratitude is easy to preach and hard to feel on a bad day. One physician spent a 40-year career learning to practice it on purpose. Scott Abramson is…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Stop calling it burnout: COVID denial and the wounds ER doctors carry
An emergency physician bought a new iPad and found 53 phone numbers he had forgotten were there. Each one was a family he put on a video call to say …
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Doctors on social media should ask this question first
Your patients can see everything you post. So can the hospital that employs you. Tali Lando was posting funny videos from her office while two of her…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Trusting the lab over the patient is the new medical error
The lab says the potassium is critically low. You walk in, and the patient looks completely fine. Duane Penshorn is an emergency physician and author…
2 weeks, 5 days ago