By HANS DUVEFELT Almost every day I catch a suspicious fax needing my signature. Often it is an out of state vendor who wants my permission to provide a back brace for a diabetic patient, a continuous blood glucose monitor for a non-diabetic or a compounded (custom made) ointment of some sort that makes no… Read More: Please Sign Below: Fraudsters Phishing for Physician Signatures »
As a first-year medical student, the transition to an online curriculum has posed a unique set of challenges. I am often asked, “How exactly can you become a doctor without having seen a patient, without having put a stethoscope on another human being?” I’ve been told many times already by my professors that to listen… Read More: The pandemic has only further strengthened my passion to become… »
The Podcast by KevinMD | Podcast | October 31, 2020 “I have been depressed. I have been burned out. I have been both. I have been neither. How do you know if you are depressed vs. burned out when your chief complaint is, “I feel like crap?” It’s time to call a consult. I don’t… Read More: Depression vs. burnout: A physician goes through both [PODCAST] »
The Podcast by KevinMD | Podcast | July 29, 2020 “I struggle for words to describe life in the season of COVID-19. Depending on the day, I need at least a few adjectives: ‘peculiar,’ ‘fine, all things considered,’ ‘terrifying.’ ‘Joyous’ and ‘anxious’ certainly make odd bedfellows in my brain. As a mother and physician living… Read More: A physician embraces the power of the word, “and” [PODCAST] »