PW editorial board member Dr. Alex McDonald and guest Victor Zhou (Klarity Health) continue discussing their anticipated 2025 healthcare innovations, zeroing in on gene-editing technologies and precision medicine

PW editorial board member Dr. Alex McDonald has a conversation with Victor Zhou (Klarity Health) about what changes may be coming to healthcare in 2025.

In part 2, Amanda Hess, an Advisory Board Member of the Association for Blood Donor Professionals, returns to discuss barriers that prevent people from donating blood and share strategies to address common misconceptions. 

Amanda Hess, an Advisory Board Member of the Association for Blood Donor Professionals, offers a resource that clinicians can share with patients to help increase blood donation participation.

In her first episode of 2025, Dr. MedLaw takes a look back at all her podcast episodes from last year and pulls out the most important takeaways for physicians.

In the second part of her conversation about burnout, Louise Underdahl, PhD, discusses the pandemic's impact on physician mental health, as well as how collaboration between clinicians and administrators may be the most effective path forward.

Louise Underdahl, PhD, elaborates on the findings from her recent systematic review on physician burnout, including an overview of various solutions. 

Dr. MedLaw returns to advise how physicians can handle negative online reviews without accidentally giving away patients' health information and potentially facing legal trouble. 

In the second part of their conversation about deductibles resetting at the start of the year, Blake Walker (Inbox Health) and Jeff Hillam (Red House Medical Billing) discuss common reasons why patients raise issues with medical bills and how c...

In the first part of their conversation, Blake Walker (Inbox Health) and Jeff Hillam (Red House Medical Billing) share some practices physicians can adopt to facilitate seamless billing and payment as deductibles reset in the new year.

On this episode, PW Physician Editor Linda Girgis, MD, offers comment on the recent shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO.

On this episode, Andrea Austin, MD (Southwest Healthcare Medical Education Consortium; Heartline: Conversations With Healthcare Changemakers) discusses how emotional trauma can impact physicians. She also describes some practices clinicians can...

In the second part of their interview, PW editorial board member and regular contributor Alex McDonald, MD, FAAFP (Southern California Kaiser Permanente, and President-Elect of the California Academy of Family Physicians), and...

On this episode, PW editorial board member and regular contributor Alex McDonald, MD, FAAFP (Southern California Kaiser Permanente, and President-Elect of the California Academy of Family Physicians), interviews family medicin...

On this episode, PW regular contributor Dr. MedLaw returns to share key points that physicians should include in their clinics’ social media policies to protect patient privacy and prevent liability.

Today we are joined Dr. Reggie Ferreira of Tulane University. He discusses the importance of physician pre planning before a potential natural disaster, noting the need to collaborate with the community before the event. 

Andrea Austin, MD (Heartline: Conversations With Healthcare Changemakers podcast), and Bradley Block, MD (Physician's Guide to Doctoring podcast), have a conversation about the benefits and potential pitfalls of using humor in medicine. They de...

On this episode, PW editorial board member and regular contributor Alex McDonald, MD, FAAFP (Southern California Kaiser Permanente, and President-Elect of the California Academy of Family Physicians), sits down with Ilan Shapiro, MD (P...

For breast cancer awareness month, Steven Chen, MD, MBA, highlights the value of whole-person health in managing breast cancer-related lymphedema, emphasizing differences from traditional care, cost barriers, patient education, early detection,...

On this episode, Ewurama Sackey, MD, and Jason James, MD, advocate for clinicians in the fields of behavioral health and obstetrics and gynecology to screen patients more often for postpartum depression (PPD). They emphasize PPD’s distinction f...

For National Primary Care Week, PW editorial board member and regular contributor Alex McDonald, MD, FAAFP (Southern California Kaiser Permanente, and President-Elect of the California Academy of Family Physicians), has a conv...

PW regular contributor Dr. MedLaw reviews a recent controversy in which Disney claimed arbitration after a woman died of anaphylaxis while visiting their parks. With this in mind, Dr. MedLaw shares how arbitration agreements are held t...

On this episode, Dr. Bradley Block (Physician's Guide to Doctoring podcast) shares how physicians can use subtle nonverbal cues to convey interest and authority to their patients, which can help build trust and improve the efficiency of visits....

This week, we are joined by Andrea Austin, MD (Southwest Healthcare Medical Education Consortium; Heartline: Conversations With Healthcare Changemakers). Dr. Austin discusses the concept of resilience, sharing practical, small changes physician...

Dr. Rajat Thawani continues his conversation on non-small cell lung cancer. Today he reviews various strategies to help diagnosis NSCLC, including the importance of testing patients who are smokers and non-smokers. He also explains why multidis...