The Podcast by KevinMD

"Digital mental health apps have increased access to mental health care for people around the world. You can find services that fit your specific needs, often on a 24/7/365 basis, so if you need support in the middle of the night, it's there. Digital apps can include resource libraries, artificial intelligence-driven chatbots that tailor the treatment they provide to your responses, and digital coaching from credentialed mental health professionals at any hour of the day or night from the privacy of your home. Busy schedules or concerns about stigma no longer need to hold people back from getting the support they need, so if the holidays have you struggling, help is available." Zereana Jess-Huff is a counselor and health care executive. She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, "Sustaining mental health during the holidays and starting strong in 2022." Did you enjoy today's episode? Rate and review the show so more audiences can find The Podcast by KevinMD. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get notified when a new episode comes out. Reflect and earn 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CME for this episode. Also available in Category 1 CME bundles. Powered by CMEfy - a seamless way for busy clinician learners to discover Internet Point-of-Care Learning opportunities that reward AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Learn more at about.cmefy.com/cme-info

"The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is widely acknowledged as a violation of ethics today, but the social conditions of the time allowed the grave injustices to happen in plain sight. In the 1930s, social Darwinism emerged as justification for racist practices. The perceived inevitability of African Americans' natural "extinction" was used to justify many unethical practices within the study, including the decision to withhold known treatment from participants. The USPHS earned the approval of the United States government after making the case that African Americans would not seek out treatment of their own volition, a harmful preconception linked to the theory of social Darwinism." Bintou Diarra is a premedical student. She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, "COVID-19 and the Tuskegee syphilis study." Did you enjoy today's episode? Rate and review the show so more audiences can find The Podcast by KevinMD. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get notified when a new episode comes out. Reflect and earn 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CME for this episode. Also available in Category 1 CME bundles. Powered by CMEfy - a seamless way for busy clinician learners to discover Internet Point-of-Care Learning opportunities that reward AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Learn more at about.cmefy.com/cme-info

"Regulators should push health savings accounts (HSA) and businesses should offer them. While HSAs are growing, they are still only available to 30 percent of workers — more likely for larger companies than smaller ones. This, of course, is a way to help pay for extra medical costs almost always incurred under a high deductible health plan. Perhaps a better option is to require all health insurance plans come with free primary care office visits. That can encourage patients to seek care earlier at lower costs (especially when compared to hospital emergency rooms or urgent care facilities, sites of choice if patients wait). One compelling example of this is when plans build in access to direct primary care. In addition, we should advocate for price transparency at all levels and guide patients better on the "total cost" of their health care on an annual basis and not just the monthly premium cost. High deductible health plans are not going away, but we can guide our community better to make costs transparent for better decision making." Ben Aiken is a family physician and health care executive. He shares his story and discusses his KevinMD article, "High deductible health insurance is bankrupting Americans." Did you enjoy today's episode? Rate and review the show so more audiences can find The Podcast by KevinMD. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get notified when a new episode comes out. Reflect and earn 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CME for this episode. Also available in Category 1 CME bundles. Powered by CMEfy - a seamless way for busy clinician learners to discover Internet Point-of-Care Learning opportunities that reward AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Learn more at about.cmefy.com/cme-info

"As the next COVID-19 variant hits our country, I feel a renewed sense of urgency. We need to move faster to invest in an infrastructure that protects our nation's health care workforce before we lose more nurses, doctors, and other care team members. Every day they risk their own safety for ours and our loved ones. It is time to reimagine safety and take action to make lasting change. That means investing in new policies, processes, resources, and solutions that ease the burden of team members and safeguard their physical, emotional, and psychological wellbeing. It means coming together as a nation and recognizing that health care is an essential infrastructure and that the people who work in health care are national assets and that their safety and wellbeing matters. We cannot afford to lose another nurse, physician, or frontline care team member." Bridget Duffy is an internal medicine physician and health care executive. She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, "End the trauma, stop health care's great resignation, and protect care teams now." Did you enjoy today's episode? Rate and review the show so more audiences can find The Podcast by KevinMD. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get notified when a new episode comes out. Reflect and earn 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CME for this episode. Also available in Category 1 CME bundles. Powered by CMEfy - a seamless way for busy clinician learners to discover Internet Point-of-Care Learning opportunities that reward AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Learn more at about.cmefy.com/cme-info

"As we know, diabetes is a comorbidity that can cause more severe symptoms in COVID-positive patients. This knowledge, along with the sense that diabetes is overwhelming the entire body, can quickly deplete a patient's reserve of positive energy. Despite all their best efforts, diabetes is a disease that can often spiral out of control and make a patient feel helpless. While it's critical to maintain this "whole body" approach, it's also important to prioritize complications. One of the most debilitating complications of diabetes is diabetic amputation, but it's often not top of mind for many patients with diabetes — or the providers treating other diabetic complications. Yet every four minutes, a lower limb is amputated due to diabetes." Jon Bloom is an anesthesiologist and health care executive. He shares his story and discusses his KevinMD article, "Diabetes impacts the whole body, but the foot can't be forgotten." Did you enjoy today's episode? Rate and review the show so more audiences can find The Podcast by KevinMD. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get notified when a new episode comes out. Reflect and earn 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CME for this episode. Also available in Category 1 CME bundles. Powered by CMEfy - a seamless way for busy clinician learners to discover Internet Point-of-Care Learning opportunities that reward AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Learn more at about.cmefy.com/cme-info

"Setting boundaries can look like setting a time limit for patient appointments, availability for email responses, the number of shifts worked this month. You can set boundaries by saying 'no' to low compensation, setting a time limit on conversations with friends, setting a limit on our after-hours availability for work-related texts and emails and taking time off as a 'pause' rather than getting to a point where we are so burned out we lose any interest in medicine and leave. Boundaries help the system keep physicians even though it may be inconvenient in the short term. Boundaries help us design the careers we deserve and the life we want. What boundaries do you need to preserve the 'masterpiece' in 2022?" Maryna Mammoliti is a psychiatrist. She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, "Why boundaries should be part of your 2022 physician goals." Did you enjoy today's episode? Rate and review the show so more audiences can find The Podcast by KevinMD. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get notified when a new episode comes out. Reflect and earn 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CME for this episode. Also available in Category 1 CME bundles. Powered by CMEfy - a seamless way for busy clinician learners to discover Internet Point-of-Care Learning opportunities that reward AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Learn more at about.cmefy.com/cme-info

"Remember the things that we've discussed as the majority of people are broke. And just because your friends are showing off the 'stuff' things they buy doesn't mean they can actually afford them. Once you realize that everybody in the world is after your money, the quicker you know how the 'money game' is really being played. Just don't get played yourself." Jeff Anzalone is a periodontist who blogs at Debt Free Dr. He shares his story and discusses his KevinMD article, "How not to be a broke doctor (5 ways)." Did you enjoy today's episode? Rate and review the show so more audiences can find The Podcast by KevinMD. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get notified when a new episode comes out. Reflect and earn 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CME for this episode. Also available in Category 1 CME bundles. Powered by CMEfy - a seamless way for busy clinician learners to discover Internet Point-of-Care Learning opportunities that reward AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Learn more at about.cmefy.com/cme-info

"There's a new best practice emerging, one that lets you deliver a high standard of care today but that well-prepares you for a shift to value. We've been talking about it throughout this article series in terms of doing more with less and making the system work for you: it's group coaching combined with remote patient monitoring. And, based on the coding changes and expanded reimbursements, the data show that patient outcomes are vastly improving under this new model. The conclusion: It's time to expand and modernize your practice by offering group coaching services and having your patients' commercial insurance, Medicare, or workers comp pay the bill." James Maskell is a health care executive. He shares his story and discusses his KevinMD article, "Get familiar with the 2021/2022 coding changes." Did you enjoy today's episode? Rate and review the show so more audiences can find The Podcast by KevinMD. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get notified when a new episode comes out. Reflect and earn 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CME for this episode. Also available in Category 1 CME bundles. Powered by CMEfy - a seamless way for busy clinician learners to discover Internet Point-of-Care Learning opportunities that reward AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Learn more at about.cmefy.com/cme-info

"It is hard to understand and communicate the uncertainty that comes with evolving science, the changing recommendations as we learn more, the vaccine that didn't do all that was initially promised. It has become even harder with the erosion of trust and civility. Back to the poop. It stinks. It's not pleasant to slip and slide in, and even today, I saw a bag hanging from a tree! Was that owner practicing his pitch? Trying to hit a squirrel? Or did she toss it to the heavens for God to catch? Only God knows! Perhaps our way forward in these challenging times is to start small. Scoop up your dog poop and put the bag in the trash can. And if you are feeling kind, pick up the bag full of poop sitting at the side of the walking path. And please cover your nose when you are wearing a mask. Of course, wear a mask. Don't forget to get online and order the COVID tests for your household. And please get your vaccines and booster." Therese Zink is a family physician and can be reached at her self-titled site, ThereseZink.com. She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, "Dog poop, the social contract, and pandemic behaviors." Did you enjoy today's episode? Rate and review the show so more audiences can find The Podcast by KevinMD. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get notified when a new episode comes out. Reflect and earn 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CME for this episode. Also available in Category 1 CME bundles. Powered by CMEfy - a seamless way for busy clinician learners to discover Internet Point-of-Care Learning opportunities that reward AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Learn more at about.cmefy.com/cme-info

"Have you ever been to a new city and realized you'd been pronouncing a street or a town name all wrong? Have you ever been from one of those cities and has it broken your heart to hear someone call Copley Square Cope-ly? Or pronounce the Schuylkill River or Worcester how it is spelled? This is how neurologists feel when you call a stroke a cerebrovascular accident, or a CVA. It's just … not what we do. Maybe it was in 1992, and maybe it is in the world of billing and coding, but it's not 1992, and billing and coding have never made sense. If we did call it a CVA, there'd be a high-impact factor journal called CVA instead of one called Stroke. And the International Stroke Conference (ISC) that brings together hundreds of thousands of stroke (not CVA) neurologists from around the world would be called the ICVAC. That acronym is just not as sexy or easy to say, you get the drift." Aleksandra Yakhkind is a neurointensivist. She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, "A PSA from a neurologist to the medical community." Did you enjoy today's episode? Rate and review the show so more audiences can find The Podcast by KevinMD. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get notified when a new episode comes out. Reflect and earn 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CME for this episode. Also available in Category 1 CME bundles. Powered by CMEfy - a seamless way for busy clinician learners to discover Internet Point-of-Care Learning opportunities that reward AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Learn more at about.cmefy.com/cme-info