Healthcare Knuggets
Nov 29, 2025
Subject: Doctors are finally saying what they’re afraid to admit
Sender: newsletter@kevinmd.com
Inside This Edition:
– Burnout truths and why physicians need safe spaces to heal
– Lessons from street medicine: Healing beyond charts through stories and listening
– Reflections from a hospice nurse on the quiet work of dying
– The silent cost of choosing personalization over privacy in health care
– Essential asset protection strategies every doctor should implement
– How Gen Z is revolutionizing healthcare with digital tools and social media
– The risks of treating healthcare as a “no-fail mission” and the importance of psychological safety
– Teaching medicine through life’s toughest challenges brings joy and purpose
– The unfair scrutiny facing pain doctors in California and calls for reform
– The overlooked critical role of mastering billing in primary care
– Challenges faced by chronic pain patients and their doctors due to systemic obstacles and punitive policies
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Subject: 🏥 What I’m Thankful for in Healthcare
Sender: hospitalogy@workweek.com
In this Thanksgiving season message from Hospitalogy:
- Gratitude for the many healthcare professionals who persistently keep systems running despite overwhelming challenges, balancing mission and financial pressures.
- Recognition of unsung operators and founders quietly advancing practical solutions like diabetic eye exam workflows, documentation improvements, and real value-based care infrastructure.
- Appreciation for truth-tellers within the industry who expose uncomfortable realities and hold the system accountable.
- Celebration of the growing Hospitalogy community of 50,000+ subscribers committed to honest discussion and operator-grade insights.
- Reflection on the first in-person Hospitalogy retreat, fostering real conversations among VBC leaders in an intimate setting.
- Optimism for healthcare’s potential amidst policy challenges, including efforts toward aligned economics, focused health system strategies, and meaningful startup innovations.
- Invitation for readers to share feedback on what they’re thankful for, real progress they see, and where Hospitalogy can push harder in 2026.
Also note: Four IRL Hospitalogy meetups scheduled for Dec 5th in Dallas, Nashville, NYC, and Chicago. Reserve your spot now!
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Subject: Amid the Black Friday noise… a quick reminder
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A different kind of Black Friday reminder from STAT:
- Secure super early access pricing for STAT Breakthrough Summit East, a full day of live journalism in NYC this March focusing on leading voices in research and development. Save up to $350 before prices rise on December 11, 2025.
- Registration also open for STAT Breakthrough Summit West in May 2026, with lowest rates available now.
This is your chance to connect with award-winning journalists and thought leaders shaping health and science in the year ahead.
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Subject: This is what lightning on Mars sounds like
Sender: briefing@nature.com
Key stories in today’s Nature Briefing:
- AI conference controversy: 21% of manuscript peer reviews found to be fully AI-generated, raising questions on quality and policies in AI research peer review processes.
- Discovery that Spongiophyton, an enigmatic ancient organism, is among the oldest lichens showing early plants’ foothold on land over 410 million years ago, rewriting parts of life’s early terrestrial history.
- Insight into intense visual imagery conditions hyperphantasia and aphantasia and their broad effects on memory and experience.
- Efforts in AI development focusing on truly local language models that understand and serve diverse global voices beyond mainstream US-centric data.
- Nature Podcast special: For the first time, sounds of micro-lightning recorded by NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars, offering new clues about the Martian atmosphere.
Quotes and features include perspectives on the long process of cat domestication and vivid scientific storytelling.
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