Kevin Pho, M.D.

ALT Dark brown card with white text: A physician mom was pumping on the bathroom floor of a skilled nursing facility, just crying. She remembers why: “I wanted to do this thing for my children, but there was just no time and no place.” The Podcast by KevinMD.

ALT Cream card with black text: An ER doctor told an elderly woman her cancer had spread to her bones and was generally not survivable, and she was shocked, like she’d never heard it before. Her husband said: “I thought this was really bad, but nobody really just explained it like you do.” The Podcast by KevinMD.

ALT Dark red card with white text: An ophthalmologist was asked by her practice to start doing Botox, and the training turned out to use fresh cadaver heads under blue cloths in pans that looked like turkey roasting pans. The night before, the speaker told her: “Don’t worry, they’re fresh.” The Podcast by KevinMD.

ALT Putty card with black text: A woman who thought her leg pain was a pulled muscle was about to be sent away from urgent care with an ACE bandage, until the nurse practitioner stopped. Then the nurse practitioner said to her: “You know, I just have this feeling that maybe we need to schedule an MRI just to get it checked out.” The Podcast by KevinMD.

ALT Dark blue card with white text: A grandmother with diabetes spent days in the hospital with dangerously low blood sugar that no one could explain, until her doctor asked her one question. Her doctor said to her: “Look, you’re the expert here. What do you think happened here?” The Podcast by KevinMD.

ALT Light gray card with black text: A woman was flown to the hospital with a suspected ruptured ectopic pregnancy, and the OB/GYN on call walked in ready to go. Her husband said to the doctor: "You’re the doctor? You’re the doctor? Oh no, we’re not having some Black doctor operate on my wife." The Podcast by KevinMD.

ALT Pale green card with black text: A month after the hospital sent her home with her six-year-old son’s seizure records, the neurologist told her, “I’m sorry to say it, but we’re reversing the results.” When she asked why, he told her: "Sometimes MRI technicians want to give us something to tell the parents, because it feels like an answer." The Podcast by KevinMD.

ALT Dark green card with white text: A woman newly diagnosed with diabetes handed the pharmacy student her prescription and said to keep it back there, that she felt OK and would start it when she started feeling bad. After a four-minute conversation, she said: "Wow, nobody ever explained it to me that way." The Podcast by KevinMD.

ALT Dark blue card with white text: Four months pregnant at the start of her pediatrics residency, she was asked by one attending what she was thinking and told by another that their own formula-fed children turned out OK. Every day she needed to pump, she couldn’t find a room. "And I would find one, sit, and then my pager goes off." The Podcast by KevinMD.

ALT Cream card with black text: A daughter watched her mother gasp for breath on a video feed while the nurse had left the room. The COVID ICU allowed no visitors. "You cannot leave the feed on and not be bedside." The Podcast by KevinMD.