Data through September 30, 2026; reading data as of October 4, 2026. Clinicians wrote about AI this quarter more than about anything else: 77 essays by 59 different authors. Readers spent less time ...

This page lists every episode of The Podcast by KevinMD published in 2026, 230 in all from January to October, with the guests and, for 201 of them, one sentence from the guest’s answer to the show’s ...

A routine EKG at my annual physical was supposed to be uneventful. Instead, it ended my marathon career. This past winter, I was diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), ...

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 ...

America spends nearly a fifth of its economy on health care, yet chronic disease keeps rising and prevention lags. Narinder Singh Parhar, an internist and intensivist with four decades of experience ...

A patient recently told me she hadn’t seen a doctor in six years. Not because she felt perfectly healthy, but because nothing had ever felt “bad enough” to justify an appointment. By the time she came ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was bound to happen. We spent years worrying that artificial intelligence would destroy humanity because of cold, unfeeling, Terminator-style logic. We thought Skynet would look at our messy carbon ...

This article is sponsored by AstraZeneca. As a medical professional and oncologist, personalized and compassionate care has been a core pillar of my approach. I learned early in my medical training ...

Imagine if we only treated lung cancer and never tackled smoking. Is that what we’re doing with depression? We always ask people struggling with depression to reach out. But maybe we should also ask ...

A meaningful portion of my practice involves reconstructive work, not the kind that follows trauma or cancer, but the kind that follows cosmetic procedures that went wrong. Patients come to me after ...