PeerPOV: The Pulse on Medicine is a weekly podcast series that features expert commentary on the latest healthcare news, landmark research, and more. 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), continues his conversation with pediatrician Shannon Udovic-Constant, MD (The Permanente Medical Group, San Francisco, California). They discuss considerations related to privacy and record-keeping when treating colleagues or their children.   ..read more

PeerPOV: The Pulse on Medicine is a weekly podcast series that features expert commentary on the latest healthcare news, landmark research, and more. 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 pediatrician Shannon Udovic-Constant, MD, (The Permanente Medical Group, San Francisco, California) about the ethical considerations of treating physician colleagues or their children.  Stay tuned for next week’s episode to listen to ..read more

PeerPOV: The Pulse on Medicine is a weekly podcast series that features expert points of view on the latest healthcare news, landmark research, and more. On this episode, Jeffrey Gladd, MD, chief medical officer at Fullscript, shares his personal journey with whole-person health and how it has impacted his practice. Let us know what you thought of this week’s episode on Twitter: @physicianswkly Want to share your medical expertise, research, or unique experience in medicine on the PW podcast? Email us at editorial@physweekly.com! Thanks for listening ..read more

John Bertrand (CEO, Digital Diagnostics) speaks with us about LumineticsCore, an AI diagnostic system that autonomously diagnoses patients for diabetic retinopathy, including macular edema, to detect disease before it leads to blindness. Also, regular contributor Dr. MedLaw discusses the role of private equity in your practice. Enjoy Listening! Changes Are Coming Soon! Stay tuned for an exciting new format, dropping July 10! Let us know what you thought of this week’s episode on Twitter: @physicianswkly Want to share your medical expertise, research, or unique experience in medicine on the P ..read more

Regular contributor Dr. MedLaw explores what to do when you get a negative online review. We also speak with Drs. John Sayer (University of Newcastle, UK) and Roman-Ulrich Müller (University Clinic Cologne, Germany), live from the 61st European Renal Association annual meeting to discuss the 11% of the world’s population that has genetic kidney disease. We talk about how one-third of renal failure is attributable to faulty genes, as well as the ethical considerations of sequencing all babies at birth.   Enjoy listening!   More reading:  BabySeq project https://www.genomes2people ..read more

PW Editorial Board member Alex McDonald, MD (Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group), speaks with Joanna Bisgrove, MD (Rush Universitiy), who has broken remarkable boundaries as a hard-of-hearing physician. As a physician with a disability, Dr. Bisgrove is determined to advocate for a country where there are no barriers for persons with disabilities anywhere.  In this conversation, Dr. Bisgrove shares insights on ableism and antiableism. Also discussed is the pioneering work of Dr. Phil Zazove, whose groundbreaking efforts in family medicine particularly advanced healthcare a ..read more

We speak with Gregg Stone, MD, who presented findings at ACC 2024 from RELIEVE-HF, a randomized trial designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of treating patients with heart failure with an interatrial shunt. The results are clear, so keep listening to hear his interpretation of the results. We next talk to, Javed Butler, MD, who presented results from the EMPACT-MI randomized trial, which examined treating patients with empagliflozin following a heart attack. The results add to our understanding of SGLT2 inhibitors and how they can impact major outcomes in a broad population of adul ..read more

PW editorial board member and regular contributor Alex McDonald, MD, speaks with Kim Yu, MD (Aledade Medical Director, President of the Orange County Chapter of the California Academy of Family Physicians), about new mandates concerning value-based care and what they might mean to you. Enjoy listening! Let us know what you thought of this week’s episode on Twitter: @physicianswkly Want to share your medical expertise, research, or unique experience in medicine on the PW podcast? Email us at editorial@physweekly.com! Thanks for listening ..read more

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. The study compared subcutaneous nivolumab with intravenous nivolumab in patients with advanced kidney cancer. Dr. George reviews the impact the trial results will have on all cancer types with nivolumab in their treatment arsenal.   Enjoy Liste ..read more

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-informed approach to care acknowledges that healthcare organizations and care teams need a complete picture of a patient’s life situation—past and present—to provide effective healthcare services with a healing orientation. Adopting trauma-informed pr ..read more