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The Podcast by KevinMDAI censorship threatens the lifeline of caregiver supportCertified coach and medical educator Kathleen Muldoon discusses her article "AI moderation of online health communities." Kathleen shares the harrowing personal story of having her social media account disabled when an algorithm mistook compassion for abuse. She explores how online support groups act as critical public health infrastructure for families navigating chronic illness and rare diseases. The conversation highlights the danger of allowing automated systems to police complex medical conversations without understanding nuance or context. Kathleen argues that instead of relying on censorship, health care providers must actively engage in these digital spaces to foster trust. Listen to learn...
2026-02-0615 minThe Podcast by KevinMDTrue peace in medicine requires courage not silenceProfessor and coach Kathleen Muldoon discusses their article "Why humanity in medicine requires peace with a spine." Kathleen explores the dangerous misconception that peace in health care means silence or compliance. The conversation highlights how teaching medical students to smooth their edges and avoid conflict often leads to burnout, moral injury, and emotional numbness. By redefining peace as an active skill that requires a spine, Kathleen outlines how clinicians can navigate hierarchy and uncertainty without erasing their own humanity. This episode examines the vital difference between keeping the peace and protecting dignity in high-pressure clinical environments. Real professionalism demands...
2026-01-1918 minThe Podcast by KevinMDPediatric respite homes provide a survival mechanism for struggling familiesCertified coach and professor Kathleen Muldoon and co-founder of Ryan House and Children's Respite Homes of America Jonathan Cottor discuss the article "The need for pediatric respite care." Kathleen shares the personal story of raising her son Gideon who lives with over 42 medical diagnoses and explain why the family had to move across the country to find safety. They highlight the critical difference between taking a break and surviving the relentless cycle of 24/7 medical vigilance required for medically complex children. The conversation advocates for the expansion of pediatric respite homes in the U.S. while urging clinicians to recognize...
2026-01-0120 min
Sunday MiscellanyJoy to the World: Christmas Miscellany Part 1A winter wedding, a New Year’s Eve disaster, a Christmas baby and balm for the broken-hearted…Part 1 of Christmas Miscellany with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guests Kathleen MacMahon, Paul Muldoon, Mia Döring, Paul Howard, Cauvery Madhavan, the Palestrina Choir and Lisa Lambe
2025-12-2139 minThe Podcast by KevinMDWhy humanity matters in medicineCertified coach and professor Kathleen Muldoon discusses her article, "The humanity we bring: a call to hold space in medicine." She shares how her experience as a mother in the neonatal intensive care unit transformed her understanding of empathy and reshaped how she teaches future clinicians. Kathleen explains why health care professionals must hold space for patients and themselves, embracing presence, storytelling, and authenticity as tools for healing. Viewers will learn how humanity is not separate from medicine but its foundation, and how connection and compassion can restore both patients and practitioners. Our presenting sponsor...
2025-11-0119 minThe Podcast by KevinMDFew people realize this common infection can cause serious complicationsPublic health advocate Kathleen Muldoon discusses her article "Why congenital CMV should be on every parent and doctor's radar," revealing how congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) remains the most common viral cause of disability in the U.S., yet is often ignored in medical training, prenatal counseling, and public health policy. Kathleen explains how toddlers act as primary vectors, why prevention advice is rarely shared, and how early antiviral treatment can improve outcomes when the infection is detected in time. She outlines practical steps clinicians can take now, from incorporating prevention into prenatal visits to advocating for universal newborn screening, and...
2025-08-3117 minThe Podcast by KevinMDHow motherhood made me a better scientistPhysician coach and medical school professor Kathleen Muldoon discusses her article, "How motherhood reshaped my identity as a scientist and teacher." She explores what it means to be a "mother scholar" in academic and medical cultures that reward detachment and often view caregiving as a distraction. Drawing from her experience parenting a disabled child with congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV), Kathleen explains how she was forced to bridge the gap between siloed clinical expertise and her son's lived reality. This journey reshaped her identity, teaching her to see the whole person, to value presence over performance, and to embrace the vulnerability...
2025-08-1419 minThe Podcast by KevinMDA dual citizen's choice between two imperfect systemsCertified coach Kathleen Muldoon discusses her article, "Choosing between care and country: a dual citizen's Independence Day reflection." As a dual U.S. and Canadian citizen and mother to a child with complex health care needs, she explores the profound tension of navigating two vastly different systems. Kathleen recounts the painful, personal decision to turn down a job in her native Canada after discovering its universal system, while philosophically aligned with her values, would likely fail to provide the timely, specialized support her son requires. The conversation delves into the "quiet grief" of choosing the fragmented but fast-moving U...
2025-07-2819 minThe Podcast by KevinMDWhy true listening is crucial for future health care professionalsCertified coach Kathleen Muldoon discusses her article, "The cost of presence: a lesson in listening." She recounts a poignant experience observing a health care student disengaged during a powerful presentation by a mother sharing her life as a caregiver to children with disabilities. Kathleen, who is also a medical school faculty member and mother to a child with complex health needs, reflects on the immense value of such shared stories for interprofessional students and the "cost of presence" willingly paid by these community educators. The conversation delves into the critical need for future health care professionals to cultivate presence...
2025-05-2318 min
Karten's Inclusion Conversations PodcastKIC S3E8 "Fostering Inclusion: Lessons from Little Learners, Big Hearts" Featuring Randy Ross, Orinthia Harris and Jill FlandersIn this conversation, Toby explores themes of empathy, equity, and inclusion in early childhood education, centered around the book, Little Learners, Big Hearts with authors Randy Ross, Orinthia Harris and Jill Flanders . The discussion highlights the importance of addressing implicit biases, fostering diversity, and creating inclusive classrooms where all children, including those with disabilities, are valued and celebrated. Key strategies include professional development focused on equity, using multicultural literature as tools for learning, and adopting a "heart-centered" teaching framework emphasizing hope, education, acknowledgment, and community engagement. The conversation also tackles systemic issues like the preschool-to-prison pipeline and emphasizes the...
2025-01-2842 min
Absorb This Game-Changing Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.The Legend of Bottle Hill by Kathleen M. MuldoonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/106707to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Legend of Bottle Hill
Author: Kathleen M. Muldoon
Narrator: David Armstrong
Format: mp3
Length: 10 mins
Release date: 11-19-24
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: European
Publisher's Summary:
Mike Purcell is poor. He has no money for food or rent, but he does have a cow to sell. On his way to the fair to sell her, he meets a strange man who offers him an equally strange trade—his cow for an empty bottle, with the promise that the bottle will make him rich. What happens when Mike ta...
2024-11-1910 min
Discover A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Addictive.How Big Bear Stuck to the Sky by Kathleen MuldoonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/106979to listen full audiobooks.
Title: How Big Bear Stuck to the Sky
Author: Kathleen Muldoon
Narrator: Maria Pendolino
Format: mp3
Length: 4 mins
Release date: 10-14-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating
Genres: Native American
Publisher's Summary:
One of the most well-known constellations in the night sky, the Big Dipper, traces its origins to a Native American legend. Many animals attempted to break through Sky in order to spread light and warmth onto the Earth. Only one of them, a Great Bear—also known as Ursa Major—succeeds. How does Great Spirit reward him?
2024-10-1404 min
A Photographic LifeA Photographic Life - 149: Plus Norman McBeathIn episode 149 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed considering unrealistic expectations, visual fitness, being recorded on Zoom and 'remote' portrait photography.
Plus this week photographer Norman McBeath takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer’s the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?’
Norman McBeath (pronounced McBeth) is a photographer and printmaker who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. His creative collaborations with poets include Plan B with Paul Muldoon, The Beach with Kathleen Jamie and Simonides with Robert Crawford. Simonides was shortlisted for the Te...
2021-03-0319 min
Why Watch That RadioSneak Peeks: Wild Mountain Thyme, Minari, and ParallelOn this episode of Why Watch That:MOVIE SNEAK PEEKSMinari Website: A24Synopsis: A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, Minari shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home. Releas...
2020-12-0952 min
Photography Down The LinePhotography Down The Line with Norman McBeath (recorded: 12 November 2020)Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh, speaks to Norman McBeath.
Norman McBeath is a photographer and printmaker who lives in Edinburgh. The National Portrait Galleries in Edinburgh and London have over seventy of his portraits in their collections. His collaborations with poets include Plan B with Paul Muldoon, The Beach with Kathleen Jamie and Simonides with Robert Crawford. Simonides was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and exhibited at Yale and the Poetry Foundation in Chicago. His latest book is Strath with Robert Crawford.
Collections which hold his work include; the British Library; th...
2020-11-1329 min
2020-06-1247 min
The New Yorker: PoetryAnna McDonald Reads Kathleen GraberAnna McDonald reads a poem by Kathleen Graber, as well as one of her own poems, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.
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2014-05-2214 min