For many physicians, the first truly useful encounter with generative AI has been remarkably mundane. It takes notes. Ambient AI listens to the encounter, organizes the conversation, drafts the ...

The last patient leaves around six. Dinner happens, eventually, and the kids go down around eight. The laptop comes back out after that, open to a stack of notes from a day that had exactly zero room ...

A new scoping review in npj Digital Medicine should be read by every clinician who treats serious mental illness. Diel, Torous, and colleagues reviewed 119 articles on the mental health harms of large ...

“Do No Harm” is perhaps the most famous medical maxim. But reciting it is one thing; living by it is another. Sometimes, the question of “harm” is up for debate. Throughout history, physicians have ...

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 ...

We measure blood pressure before a patient has a stroke. We check cholesterol before a coronary event. We evaluate vision before impairment interferes with driving or reading. So why is hearing ...

Read together, the 505 KevinMD posts about physicians and the people who manage them say one thing consistently: the argument is about who decides. Physicians on the site have been counting ...

An eye surgeon who used to see forty patients a day now sees one to three in a morning, and he has no staff. Oren Fass, a board-certified ophthalmologist and cataract surgeon, has been an employed ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

I’m not a physician. I want to say upfront that this is just a theory; however, working with physicians and being married to one for twenty-one years has sparked a theory I think is worth bringing up.