“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 ...

Health care has never had more data. The industry generates approximately 30 percent of the world’s data volume, and that share continues to grow faster than nearly every other industry. Electronic ...

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 ...

Read together, the 198 KevinMD posts on diabetes and obesity say one thing consistently: telling patients to eat less and move more did not work, and the doctors writing have spent fifteen years ...

When a patient asks where to go for a knee replacement, a colonoscopy, or their mother's rehab stay, they have usually already looked. Not at the federal record. At the stars. Here is what the stars ...

Read together, the 1,195 KevinMD posts on mental health, by psychiatrists, other doctors, and patients, say one thing consistently: the argument is no longer about whether mental illness is real but ...

Most of us have a well-rehearsed speech for patients with elevated blood sugar. We talk about the heart. The kidneys. The eyes. The feet. We walk through the whole organ-by-organ checklist a glucose ...

Every night on mainstream streaming platforms, I see the same rotation of charity commercials: protect dogs, save Syrian children, shelter American runaways, support childhood cancer care, preserve ...

This month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new 173-page toolkit to help states ensure more effective and less costly autism care for children. The launch came as ...

Ask an independent practice owner who handles the revenue cycle and the answer is usually the name of a billing company. Ask what that company actually does each month and the answer gets shorter.

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 ...

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 ...