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A physician colleague’s gratitudeApril 7, 2021 at 3:00 PM There are endless life lessons to learn from people around us. Our friends’ opinions on what they think about a product, a certain cuisine, or how they view life not only gives us a glimpse of who they are, but also can impact our own views. As a doctor, it is always fascinating to me […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Physician, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 136 people like this. Like After all the years of medical training, I learned how to treat ugly on my ownApril 6, 2021 at 3:00 PM We first met about two years ago when she came to see me in my clinic as a new patient. I glanced through her chart and reviewed her scans and pathology reports. She had one of the worst possible kinds of lung cancers, called small cell lung cancer, that had spread to both of her […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Conditions, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 149 people like this. Like What I learned from stepping away from medicine for a yearMarch 3, 2021 at 11:00 AM Before COVID-19, I left the practice of medicine for what would turn out to become an entire year. While away, I found a new way of seeing our hearts and bodies as humans in the medical profession, allowing me to return. Here are five lessons I learned in the hope they might help others. 1. […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Physician, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 150 people like this. Like Going to the molecular level to think big about cancerFebruary 28, 2021 at 11:00 AM In the next few years, the biggest advancements in cancer care may occur at the smallest level, the level of individual molecules. By imaging individual molecules on cancer cells, malignancies can be detected when they are smaller and more easily treated. Targeting individual molecules has also allowed groundbreaking new therapies with great precision, increasing the […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Conditions, PA NP, Radiology, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 116 people like this. Like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Chadwick Boseman: a tale of two cancers in America [PODCAST]February 26, 2021 at 7:00 PM “Separated by less than a month (Boseman on August 28th and Ginsburg on September 18th) and both due to gastrointestinal cancers (Boseman had colon cancer and Ginsburg had pancreatic cancer), the situations of Ginsburg’s and Boseman’s deaths is emblematic of the racial disparity in American health outcomes. Boseman was African American/Black and was diagnosed with […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Podcast, America, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Chadwick Boseman, Ginsburg, Boseman, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 75 people like this. Like I have strong reservations regarding medication advertising to the publicFebruary 21, 2021 at 11:00 AM Recently, there have been several TV advertisements on cancer treatments that may extend life. They report survival data that can mislead cancer victims to the extent of possible longevity. Additionally, they present a false picture of how life can be spent. I have strong reservations regarding medication advertising to the public. Its purpose is to […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Mainstream Media, Conditions, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 133 people like this. Like How a physician breaks bad news is just as important as the bad news itselfFebruary 7, 2021 at 3:00 PM Medicine is an art. One can learn about symptoms, diagnostics, and treatment plans for various diseases, from textbooks and journal articles. It is harder to study empathy, compassion, and human connection from conventional academic resources. The art of medicine is discovered, acquired, and absorbed on the job by interacting and connecting with patients and their […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Conditions, PA NP, Critical Care, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 146 people like this. Like Changes to radiation oncology offer hope when there was noneFebruary 4, 2021 at 7:00 AM Radiation oncology has been around for a century, and, at first, advancements in the field came rapidly. The evolution of X-rays and CT scans to inform treatment. Intraoperative radiation therapy. Technology that allows for tailored dose distribution. But for the past 20 years, the pace of innovations seemed to slow. We remained stymied, for instance, […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Conditions, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 145 people like this. Like Prostate cancer treatment: strategies for managing side effectsJanuary 29, 2021 at 7:00 AM After skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in men in the U.S., with one in eight men at risk of being diagnosed with this cancer during his lifetime. If you or a man you care about is undergoing prostate cancer treatment, you may be living with treatment-related side effects. These can […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Conditions, Urology, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 56 people like this. Like The adaptive unconscious, the physician, and AIJanuary 15, 2021 at 7:00 AM Being an internist, the day is filled with problem-solving. The problems are often not straightforward and require thinking, rethinking, reevaluating, and reading up and researching before the problem can be solved. However, when a sixth sense, an intuition kicks in that warns us that something needs to be addressed urgently even when we cannot specify […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Tech, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 96 people like this. Like A resident’s perspective on personal loss and patient care during the COVID-19 pandemicJanuary 10, 2021 at 3:00 PM The day before the United States border with Canada shut down to non-essential travelers, my mother left Chicago to take care of my grandparents who lived by themselves in Ottawa, Canada. With the COVID outbreaks at nursing homes, she took it upon herself to stay with them as long as they needed her. During the […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Chicago, Canada, United States, Infectious Disease, Ottawa Canada, Physician, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA, COVID-19 Coronavirus 68 people like this. Like Medicine must create inclusive clinical trials [PODCAST]January 7, 2021 at 7:00 PM “Researchers should make clinical trials more accessible by providing patients with simple explanations of studies at a variety of locations, including community clinics and medical centers. Increased flexibility regarding transportation and visit timing is essential. Researchers should also allow the participation of people who do not speak English and those living with chronic conditions whenever […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now....Tags: Health, Podcast, Medical School, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 82 people like this. Like How the lessons from breast cancer saved this physician from burnoutJanuary 6, 2021 at 3:00 PM October is traditionally known as breast cancer awareness month. For me, seeing all the pink on social media is a stark reminder of my brush with the terror of breast cancer. As I was about to scrub into an operation, I got a call from my office manager. She asked if I would be at […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Finance, Practice Management, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 125 people like this. Like Genital shrinkage is real. And so is the distress it causes.December 29, 2020 at 1:00 PM “How can I help you, sir?” I asked because it was clear he wanted help. I could sense the man’s distress over the phone. His voice cracked just a little, and he cleared his throat frequently. I hadn’t met him, and so had no image of him in my mind, but I thought he might […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Conditions, Urology, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 99 people like this. Like With cancer, you often get some prep timeDecember 26, 2020 at 7:00 AM Some poignant moments with patients take me by surprise. I have had hundreds (thousands?) of difficult discussions with patients. They are all difficult and unique, but sometimes they unexpectedly and without good explanation, catch me off guard. I saw a long term patient with metastatic cancer who survived recent saddle PE despite a delay in […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Conditions, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 97 people like this. Like What does colon cancer screening have to do with self-driving cars? [PODCAST]December 16, 2020 at 7:00 PM “We can clearly see that exponential technologies are disrupting cars and phones. So why wouldn’t these technologies find their way into health care and gastroenterology? What do stool tests have to do with self-driving cars? We’ll soon find out. But let’s first go back to the discussion we had earlier on the shift to digital. […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Podcast, Gastroenterology, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 108 people like this. Like Alone and frightened is the way COVID patients dieDecember 9, 2020 at 9:00 AM I began my career in psychiatry with the desire to work with dying patients. This is an odd way to begin, but I had begun my career with interest in oncology and eventually discovered the field of psycho-oncology. After graduating, the first population I worked with was HIV infected individuals when an HIV diagnosis was […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Infectious Disease, Conditions, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA, COVID-19 Coronavirus 104 people like this. Like Live like you are dyingDecember 7, 2020 at 9:00 AM “Hey, did you hear the news?” Tanya, my long-time friend, texts, referring to a social media post. It is peculiar (even perplexing) we get our news this way. “In a relationship,” engagements, weddings, buns-in-ovens. Baby pictures, white beaches, sunsets. Those are happy news. Then there are the break-ups, the “not-in-a-relationship,” the I-hate-my-job rants. These posts […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Tanya, Physician, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 69 people like this. Like Moral injury and practicing oncology during COVID-19 [PODCAST]November 6, 2020 at 7:00 PM “As our office begins to return to pre-COVID operations, it has been uplifting to have a relative sense of normalcy, even though morale seems to be reduced. It is difficult to promote team building and improve morale when everyone has to maintain social distancing. I would love to go out for a meal with my […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Podcast, Infectious Disease, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA, COVID-19 Coronavirus 94 people like this. Like This Lung Cancer Awareness Month is like no otherNovember 6, 2020 at 9:00 AM November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, a time when many people in my profession shine a spotlight on the dangers of taking lung health for granted. This year, few need the reminder. COVID-19 is deadly, contagious, and upending life as we know it. It is also a lung disease. As a thoracic surgeon, I tell […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Conditions, Pulmonology, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 128 people like this. Like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Chadwick Boseman: a tale of two cancers in AmericaOctober 26, 2020 at 1:00 PM The recent death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has brought immense attention to the future of the Supreme Court with the scrutinized nomination of Amy Barrett amid the COVID-19 pandemic and upcoming presidential election. As an oncologist and public health physician, however, I cannot help but to focus on the medical causes of her death […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Supreme Court, America, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Chadwick Boseman, Physician, PA NP, Amy Barrett, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 137 people like this. Like A physician’s DIY rehabilitation miracleOctober 25, 2020 at 3:00 PM My head used to be my greatest asset, and back in 2012, I had my life on track because of it. With a medical education and a few years of work experience on my back, I felt that I had options in life. I had even saved up to be able to buy a home. […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Neurology, Conditions, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 70 people like this. Like Lung cancer screening explained by a pulmonologistOctober 25, 2020 at 11:00 AM Lung cancer screening is a process that is used to detect the presence of lung cancer in otherwise healthy people at high risk for cancer. In 2020, 229,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer, and 136,000 people will die from the disease, making it the leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. Data […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Conditions, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 60 people like this. Like Help the public understand what more can be done to support loved ones affected by a serious illnessOctober 13, 2020 at 11:00 AM “Is ere anything more we could have done?” I am not the first person to ask this question, and I will not be the last. This past week I learned that an ex-boyfriend from my graduate school years, who had moved overseas in 2016 and disappeared off the grid, was recently diagnosed with lymphoma, developed […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Conditions, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 70 people like this. Like A medical student’s summer of 2020: Family mattersOctober 8, 2020 at 3:00 PM The summer of 2020 is easily one that I would rather forget but has been one that, I believe, will be etched in my memory for a very long time. After a brief vacation to visit my maternal relatives in India during last winter break, I welcomed 2020 with some good news: I had been […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Education, India, Medical School, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 135 people like this. Like Treating cancer patients in a pandemic [PODCAST]September 26, 2020 at 7:00 PM “As an oncologist, perhaps the hardest part I play is as witness. I am there to give a diagnosis that, more often than not, will alter someone’s life forever. For some, I see resignation—a sense that they’ve known something was wrong and that it’s what they thought they had. For others, I see an almost […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Podcast, Infectious Disease, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA, COVID-19 Coronavirus 81 people like this. Like Death is personal for this physicianSeptember 26, 2020 at 3:00 PM An excerpt from Dying with Ease: A Compassionate Guide for Making Wiser End-of-Life Decisions. Used by permission of the publisher Rowman & Littlefield. All rights reserved. In 2017, there were 2,813,503 deaths in the United States. About a quarter of Americans die of heart disease, some 22 percent from cancer, and about one in twenty […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, United States, Rowman Littlefield, Palliative Care, Physician, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 98 people like this. Like Do COVID restrictions in the office negatively affect patients?September 21, 2020 at 3:00 PM Many health care facilities are enacting policies during this time of COVID-19 that restrict the number of people attending appointments in person. Family care providers are asked to wait outside or drop off the patient for their appointment and come back to pick them up later. There are, of course, exceptions made for those receiving […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Infectious Disease, Conditions, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA, COVID-19 Coronavirus 101 people like this. Like Patients without traditional support systems, and the doctors who stereotype them [PODCAST]September 17, 2020 at 7:00 PM “When doctors ignore the evidence showing that a support system doesn’t have to be traditional in order to be effective, that’s not a medical judgment. It’s a personal prejudice that puts singles at serious risk. Classifying patients as married or unmarried when studying the effects of social support undoubtedly makes research easier, with groups determined […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Podcast, Patients, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 79 people like this. Like Sunscreens: The balancing act between safety and cancer preventionSeptember 12, 2020 at 7:00 AM That’s the question that will be on the minds of many as the Food and Drug Administration releases a second study on the absorption of sunscreens. The reality is that answering the “safe” question is becoming more complicated—and more important as well, given the fact that so many of us use sunscreens as part of our own sun safety efforts, […]
Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.Tags: Health, Food And Drug Administration, Dermatology, Conditions, PA NP, Oncology/Hematology, CRNA 120 people like this. Like |