FDA now providing daily updates on adverse events
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now providing real-time, daily publication updates on adverse event data from its reporting system. In an effort to modernize and provide transparency on …
How to balance clinical duties with building a startup
I’m often asked about how to pursue a physician entrepreneurial career pathway. Like Peter Medawar opined in his “Advice to a young scientist”, allow me to offer some advice: You …
5 Reasons Why Artificial Intelligence Won’t Replace Physicians
Artificial intelligence-based solutions are changing healthcare for the better. We saw it coming over the past years, and as easy-to-use tools, such as ChatGPT and Midjourney arrived, that initial wave …
Build social ties through live events
If your social life has been lived out in Zoom calls since the height of the pandemic, Labor Day weekend is prime time for a reboot. Attending live events builds …
Guilty until proven innocent? My experience with a state medical board.
When I found out about the summary suspension of my medical license in February, I was terrified and shocked, but I knew it was a mistake. There had not been …
The ChatGPT Revolution – Here’s Our New Book On Generative AI In Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been the dominant topic in medicine and healthcare for years as these fields have become more and more technology-dependent. Then, in November 2022, generative AI stormed …
Tracking the UV? Ditching the SPF? Here’s what a dermatologist says
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain This summer, TikTok and Instagram feeds have been full of a new ritual: “checking the UV.” Gen Z content creators are tracking the daily UV index—not …
Doctors reclaiming their humanity in a broken system [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Physician advocates Alae Kawam, Kim Downey, and Nicole Solomos discuss their article “True stories of doctors …
Aimvein Pro 3.0 – The Ultimate Vein Finder
Phlebotomy – drawing blood of a patient – has been practised for centuries and is still one of the most commonly used invasive procedures in medicine. Although the process seems …
Why endurance events like marathons should have weight divisions for heavier runners
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In sports such as wrestling, boxing, rowing, weight lifting and the martial arts, athletes are grouped by weight to make things fairer. It wouldn’t make sense …