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Physician's Weekly offers in-depth interviews with the most highly respected experts in the medical community, weighing in on landmark research, trending topics, and offering insight on issues affecting everyday medical practice. In collaboration with Medicom Medical Publishers, Physician's Weekly Podcast continues to maintain the company's nearly 40 year reputation as a trusted resource for healthcare professionals.
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Dike Drummond, MD (TheHappyMD@PW author) brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in preventing physician burnout through innovative strategies and leadership principles to a lively discussion. Dr. Drummond explores the concept of "leadership power tools," one of the seven healthy habits for doctors to maintain wellbeing and stave off burnout. T…
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PW editorial board member and regular contributor Alex McDonald, MD, speaks with Kim Yu, MD, FAAFP (PRIME National Strategy Consultant, American Board of Family Medicine; Director of Health Care Strategy, KCS Inc.), about new mandates concerning value-based care and what they might mean to you. Enjoy listening! Let us know what you thought of this …
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Regular contributor Dr. MedLaw discusses the question many physicians are asking themselves: what are the rules regarding AI use in medicine and physician liability? Also, Saby George, MD, FACP (Roswell Park Cancer Institute), discusses results of the Checkmate 67T trial, which he recently presented at the 2024 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers symposium.…
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PW Editorial Board member and columnist Alex McDonald, MD (family and sprots medicine, Kaiser Permanente), speaks with Erika Roshanravan, MD (family physician and medical director, CommuniCare+OLE), about trauma-informed care and the need to shift the focus in patient conversations from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” A trauma-i…
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“Healthcare is at a very delicate moment,” says Jeanne Haggerty, a lobbyist for Williams & Jensen in Washington DC. With 25 years of governmental affairs experience in Washington, she should know. Haggerty’s successful career on the Hill has included working on the Senate Finance Committee, and later, the House Energy and Commerce Committee. During…
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Regular contributor Dike Drummond, MD, (family physician, CEO of TheHappyMD.com, PW columnist) talks about the difference between your job and your medical practice, recognizing the fact that they are almost never attuned. More importantly, he provides critical tools to mend the bridge and regain your grip on the work that you love. What are the ch…
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Sara Gorman, PhD, MPH, discusses the work she does as executive director of Those Nerdy Girls, along with a group who provide evidence-based answers to common medical questions in order to battle medical mistrust and misinformation. Dr. Gorman is also the founder of Critica, non-profit organization of scientists and social scientists who counteract…
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Physician’s Weekly editorial Board member Alex McDonald, MD, CAQSM, FAAFP (Kaiser Permanente), speaks with Scott Nass, MD, MPA, FAAFP, AAHIVS (Aledade), about LGBTQ+ healthcare. Since 2019, Dr. Nass has served as Chief Medical Officer for the transgender community-founded and -led Transgender Health and Wellness Center in Palm Springs, Riverside, a…
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The medical field is constantly evolving, with innovative advancements revolutionizing the way we diagnose, treat, and prevent diseases. As we move into 2024, there are numerous promising developments that hold the potential to significantly impact healthcare and improve the lives of individuals worldwide. PW Podcast host, Rachel Giles, MD, and PW …
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PW Podcast host Rachel Giles, MD, and PW editorial board member Alex McDonald, MD, offer their perspectives on what they feel are the top 10 medical innovations of 2023. Some are already in practice, whereas others are recent breakthroughs not quite ready for “prime time.” All in all, it was a great year for medical science. Think we missed a top m…
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In a lively discussion, E. David Crawford, MD (University of Colorado), explains the controversy around prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test screening. The National Cancer Institute describes the PSA controversy as follows: “Using the PSA test to screen men for prostate cancer is controversial because it is not yet known for certain whether this te…
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Physician’s Weekly’s editorial Board member Alex McDonald, MD, FAAFP, speaks with Jill Grimes, MD (best known as @tiktokcollegedoc), about hercommitment to empowering individuals with accurate medical information and practical advice that has made her a respected figure in the field of healthcare communication and education. Dr. Grimes is a highly …
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This week, we take the time to delve into the important topic of physician burnout with our single guest, Dike Drummond, MD, family physicians and CEO of TheHappyMD.com. In this first episode of a series of in-depth conversations, Dr. Drummond speaks with us about how and when to quit your practice. More importantly, he talks about the vast majorit…
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The Know Your Lemons Foundation was founded in 2014 by Corrine Ellsworth-Beaumont, MA, PhD, a designer who lost her grandmothers and a close friend to breast cancer. She created the #knowyourlemons campaign as an initiative to help improve early detection of breast cancer through symptoms and screening education in a fun, accessible, and inclusive …
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Digital health expert Patty Riskind (CEO, Orbita) digs into three main barriers physicians may perceive in incorporating chatbots into their practice. Virtual assistants, such as chatbots, have changed the way businesses operate, and how people navigate their day-to-day tasks. From making travel plans to scheduling car services, digital tools are i…
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Caryssa Lim, MPH, a third-year medical student at Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, talks with PW editorial board member Alex McDonald, MD, about whether medical school can/should be looked at as a time of despair and paralysis or the best opportunity of a lifetime to affect change. They also discuss what it was like being a me…
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Heather Raymond shares her remarkable story of breast cancer survival, following a diagnosis while working at Kaiser Permanente in 2021, with PW editorial board member Alex McDonald, MD. They discuss the importance of screening and how to talk with patients, because awareness in October isn’t enough. Enjoy listening! Let us know what you thought of…
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Cambrian Liu, PhD (University of Chicago), explains regenerative medicine and what it can mean for patients. He tells us about how his lab focusses on cells that can travel from another organ into the colon when tissue there is damaged by inflammatory bowel disease. Also, regular contributor Dr. MedLaw walks us through the ins and outs of what to d…
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In the fourth episode of a series on physician burnout, TheHappyMD@PW columnist Dike Drummond, MD (family physician and CEO of TheHappyMD.com), talks about revenue models for medical practices and whether being an employee is always the right choice. He offers several innovative possibilities for ensuring you are practicing in the best possible env…
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Reilly Bealer, MD (University of North Carolina), speaks with PW Editorial Board member Alex McDonald, MD, offering insights to help answer this question, noting that maternal mortality rates more than tripled among Native American and Alaska Native moms while continuing to be highest among Black mothers, according to a study recently published in …
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Viktoria Bogner-Flatz, MD (Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany), discusses observations from use of a mobile CT scanner equipped with AT to detect head injuries at the 2022 Munich Oktoberfest. Using lessons from 2022, the mobile scanner is back right now for the 2023 event. Also, regular contributor Dr. MedLaw explores the concept of pre-contract…
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Adam Landman, MD (Mass General Brigham), answers the question of whether voice assistants like Siri or Alexa can help bystanders perform CPR when needed. His recently published study found that the directions provided by these AI voice assistants are inconsistent and lack relevance, often directing people to inappropriate information. But he has so…
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Regular PW Podcast contributor, “Dr. MedLaw” discusses doctor-lawyer communications, in light of several recent prominent news stories about lawyers revealing client communications coming out of the investigations into attempts to interfere with the 2020 election. With most physicians taking it as a given that what they tell an attorney is shielded…
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We talk with PW columnist and TheHappyMD.com CEO Dike Drummond, MD, about the three energy accounts—physical, emotional, and spiritual—we all have. The different types of energy serve different purposes because we are more than just physical beings, especially when functioning as a physician caring for patients. Dr. Drummond explains how any of the…
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This week, we have two top-tier guests explaining some pretty remarkable breakthroughs published this summer in their respective fields of MS and dermatology, respectively. Sergio Baranzini, PhD (UCSF), discusses recently published research on a genetic breakthrough in understanding MS progression. Dr. Baranzini’s research involves large analyses o…
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Samir Mitragotri, PhD (The Mitragotri lab, Harvard) discusses a novel breakthrough his lab recently published in which an engineered particle referred to as a “backpack” can robustly adhere to macrophage surfaces and regulate cellular phenotypes in vivo. Understanding how these approaches work is not only interesting, it is a refreshing and innovat…
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Almost one-half of adolescents have experienced a mental health disorder, and while medications have the potential to be very effective for some, others might not respond or even experience adverse reactions as a result of their genetics. When it comes to treating children and teens in crisis, every second counts—and drug-gene testing can help doct…
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In the second episode of a series of in-depth conversations, Dike Drummond, MD (family physician, CEO of TheHappyMD.com), discusses the fundamental conflict underlying most physicians’ burnout and how to move forward. Dr. Drummond has coached and trained more than 40,000 doctors for over 175 organization and association clients since 2010. His Burn…
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Nicolas Girard, MD (Curie-Montsouris Thorax Institute, Institut Curie, France), discusses lung cancer research he presented at ASCO 2023, including an advance in the understanding of this difficult-to-treat disease. Also Gregory Lip, MD (University of Liverpool, UK), reviews the most important updates to the CHEST clinical guidelines on antithrombo…
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Vignesh Arasu, MD, PhD (Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research), explains his research at the intersection of medical imaging, breast cancer, and artificial intelligence. With the recently released documentary “Below the Belt” brining endometriosis into the limelight of late, we also take a deep dive into its etiology with David…
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Amie Zarling, PhD (Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Iowa State University), reviews some interesting research on developing and evaluating effective programs for hard-to-reach, under-resourced, and/or under-served populations, which primarily focus on improving family health. Also, regular contributor Dr. MedLaw discusses how, when, an…
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Welcome to Episode 101, which seems a great place to go back to basics! Regular PW podcast contributor and PW Editorial Board member Alex McDonald, MD, speaks with Francis Chu, MD, a family physician who currently serves as the program director for Kaiser Permanente San Jose (KPSJ) Family Medicine Residency, director of Graduate Medical Education a…
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This week’s episode of the PW Podcast is celebratory, in honor of our 100th episode. This has been a fantastic adventure, and we have been honored to interview more than 150 health practitioners to date, exposed to so much fantastic clinical science and expertise! We need to thank all our guests, as well as our regular contributors, Dr. Medlaw and …
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Doctor burnout is a significant and pervasive issue that can have detrimental effects on well-being, job satisfaction, and ultimately, patient care. Dike Drummond, MD, family doctor and CEO of TheHappyMD.com, discusses this important topic. Dr. Drummond is the author of the Burnout Prevention MATRIX, which shares 235 ways to stop burnout, and has c…
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Patrice Forget, MD, PhD (University of Aberdeen) discusses developments in safe pain management and the best evidence-based use of opioids in the current landscape. Dr. Forget is a recognized international expert on pain management and recently published an overview on this topic in Lancet. Also, Dr. MedLaw shares her clinical and legal perspective…
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The 14th-century bubonic plague killed up to half the population in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. It has been hypothesized that such a deadly disease may have provided a selected event for genetic variants that protect against infection. People with protective versions of certain genes would be more likely to survive and pass on those …
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Gary Milechman, MD, FACC (UCSF Cardiovascular Care and Prevention Center), explains how curiosity guides his differential diagnostics approach, which he shares in teaching the nearly lost art of diagnostics. Also, Adrian Desai Boström, PhD (Karolinksa Institute, Sweden), discuses the implications of his study findings, indicating that male adolesce…
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Karsonya Wise Whitehead, PhD (Executive Director, Karson Institute for Race, Peace, and Social Justice, Communication and African & African American Studies, Loyola University Maryland and President, National Women's Studies Association), discusses the ongoing impacts of the George Floyd murder case, sharing the facts that 79% of Black parents say …
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Steven Younger, MD (Sutter Health California Pacific Medical Center), talks with us about tough conversations with patients after poor outcomes, as well as the “Great Resignation” and the consequent stress on physicians due to shortages. Also, Nader Sanai, MD (Chief Scientific Officer/Director Neurosurgical Oncologist, Ivy Brain Tumor Center), disc…
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Carla Perissinotto, MD, MHS (Professor of Geriatric Medicine, UCSF) frames her recently published data on social isolation and loneliness as medical issues in the context of the Surgeon General’s report stating that “loneliness in older adults is a health priority.” We then turn to a situation many doctors would not have necessarily have thought wa…
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Dena Battle (President, KCCure), a former congressional aide who spent nearly two decades working on tax and healthcare policy—with expertise in health care reimbursement, tax treatment of benefit plans, the orphan-drug tax credit, and corporate research and development policy—discusses medical misinformation on the Internet and the mitigation of d…
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John Showalter, MD (CPO, Linus Health) discusses the types of cognitive care that patients want from their physicians and what physicians need to know about cognitive health as is carves out a bigger place in primary care. According to a recent survey of patient expectations, more than 80% of elderly patients are concerned about developing dementia…
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Regular contributor Dr. MedLaw explains the legal doctrine “assumption of the risk,” helping answer the question “If a patient is explained the risks of medical care and agrees to the treatment, aren’t they agreeing to those risks?” Also, Cynthia Kelly, RD, CD (CEO of the Gluten Intolerance Group), discusses new understandings in gluten sensitivity…
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Steven Woolf, MD, MPH (Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine), discusses the ominous implications of the largest increase in US all-cause pediatric mortality rates in at least 50 years (up 20% in 2019-2021). A nation that begins losing its most cherished population—its children—faces a crisis like no other. Also, Sergio Giralt, MD, re…
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Priya Sarin Gupta, MD, MPH (Mass General), discusses how mobile health services for medically underserved populations work, as well as the potential impacts of the recently FDA-approved OTC Narcan for opioid overdose treatment. Also, World Ovarian Cancer Coalition CEO Clara MacKay talks about the newest advances in ovarian cancer, how the organizat…
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Sarfaraz Niazi, PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago), discusses the impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act—President Biden’s historic new prescription drug law under which drug companies will pay rebates to Medicare when their prescription drug prices increase faster than the rate of inflation for certain drugs—on the use of generics and biosimi…
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Robert Glicksman (George Washington University Law School) speaks about how provisions affecting climate change, which he recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, will have substantial health effects on the American public. We also talk to Art Papier, MD, who is dedicated to applying machine learning and AI to improve accuracy in …
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Fitting with the theme of Spring, Dr. Yaniv Elkouby (Hebrew University, Israel) discusses his recently published research on how eggs develop in the fetal period of developing females. This involves a chromosomal bouquet formed by microtubule fibers, which is necessary for proper oocyte development. When perturbations in these structures occur, inf…
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Board-certified radiologist, medical malpractice lawyer, and regular contributor Dr. MedLaw talks about how doctors should approach the situation when patients want to take charge of their treatment plan entirely, without considering all the evidence-based options. Also, Jaime Herrera Caceres, MD (Penn State Health), briefly discusses a novel stent…
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Joseph Vassalotti, MD (Clinical Professor of Nephrology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and CMO at the National Kidney Foundation), talks about how doctors should properly test for renal function using a race-independent equation, about albuminuria, and about the effects of COVID-19 on patient’s kidneys. Also, Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD (Pro…
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