Kristin Puhl
Kevin Pho, M.D.
Seattle, WA, United States
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Past articles by Kristin:
Don't be like Elon Musk. Get a lawyer for your clinic.
Value law the same way you value medicine, or you may find yourself in hot water, like Elon Musk, who appears to be boiling. → Read More
We get what we incentivize
Money talks; speak its language. → Read More
What do doctors do when they get sick?
We need to increase the supply of physicians so that we are no longer in nonstop crisis mode.We need to stop doing harm. → Read More
Training rural physicians is racial justice
I want to train more physicians who will love other rural communities, and care for the people of color in them with thoughtfulness, understanding, and grace. → Read More
What do white LGBTQIA+ people owe to the black community?
What do we owe to each other? As much as we can give. Time, money, our effort in learning how to have difficult conversations with the other white people in our lives, the safety of our bodies at protests, our loud and privileged voice in a manager’s ear. → Read More
What Pride means to this physician as an out doctor
The meaning of Pride, now that I’m in medicine, has deepened for me. → Read More
Talk with family members about their wishes long before you think you'll need to
Have the tough conversations now. Ask your loved ones what they would want if they were too ill to make their own decisions. → Read More
How do you see psychosis?
We can choose to learn more about psychosis and how to be good friends, good families and good medical providers for those people → Read More
Treating mental illness: Quality of life matters
The social stigma surrounding the use of antidepressants is also a very real force in patients' lives. → Read More
Money matters to how you experience medical training. It matters a lot.
Medical practice is a calling. It's not a job, it's not a career -- it's a vocation. And if you really love your vocation, you'll let nothing stand in your way. → Read More
Physicians don't know everything, and that's OK
What should doctors base their practice on? → Read More
The opioid crisis makes the therapeutic relationship adversarial
Cutting off all opioid prescriptions (or making them so difficult to access that patients give up on legal means) isn't the answer. → Read More
Lessons from the psychiatric ward
A medical student learns the truth about mental health facilities. → Read More
It's important to give patients an idea of what to expect
Providers should think about what the situation looks like to their patients. → Read More
Teaching residents to teach will improve medical education
Without training, residents take on the strenuous job of teaching in addition to their other responsibilities, and they deserve credit for that. → Read More
Why do doctors who hate being doctors still practice?
There needs to be "off-ramps" for medical students who want to quit during training. → Read More
She sees difficult patients, but is a difficult patient herself
How much damage is done to therapeutic relationships by physician frustration with conditions we don't understand and can't effectively treat? → Read More
She sees difficult patients, but is a difficult patient herself
How much damage is done to therapeutic relationships by physician frustration with conditions we don't understand and can't effectively treat? → Read More
Establishing trust with LGBTQIA+ patients
Respect your patients, and let that respect inform what questions you ask them and how. It makes for better medicine. → Read More