Prevention Over Prescription with Dr. K
Jul 28, 2026 · 49 min · 15 segments
In this episode of Prevention Over Prescription, we revisit Dr. K featured on the Move With Ease Podcast hosted by Tatianna Graham, a physiotherapist, yoga teacher, and run coach. In this re-run…
Kwadwo KyeremantengHost
Tatianna GrahamGuest... and be there for patients when they're in the most vulnerable time, and I, I, I truly love my job.
I heard something on one of your recent podcasts that what drew you to ICU was, was sort of that, like your, that fast pace, gotta be creative with solutions, and then you said something that really struck a chord, was that it's changed a little bit, and that you're seeing sort of a repeated pattern in ICUs.
Can you speak to that a little bit? It's not so much the random trauma anymore, as though there is probably still some of that, but there's a pattern that you are seeing.
Yeah, and, uh, it's a good question, and I think a lot of this happened during the pandemic for me, where this time was unbelievably challenging and scary, and you wanted to be able to navigate your patients and their families through this unbelievably challenging time.
And we saw tho- this clear link with metabolic syndrome, so metabolic syndrome being, uh, obesity, Type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes, uh, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and-
... and when you saw that link, and then as I was doing these podcasts, you realize that we could actually treat this, reverse people's metabolic syndromes, m- reverse their pre-diabetes or diabetes through diet, exercise.
... they're away from their families, the impact it's having on their family, the cost, about 50, 50 grand per ICU admission when at that time.
And that was my area of research, was how, uh, cost efficiency and how to make our dollar go further in healthcare.
Then there was this big aha moment, like if we prevent them from landing in hospital in the first place, holy cow, it's not only are you reducing the suffering that they're experiencing-
but what the family's experiencing, that 50-plus K that is costing the system.
... and be there for patients when they're in the most vulnerable time, and I, I, I truly love my job.
I heard something on one of your recent podcasts that what drew you to ICU was, was sort of that, like your, that fast pace, gotta be creative with solutions, and then you said something that really struck a chord, was that it's changed a little bit, and that you're seeing sort of a repeated pattern in ICUs.
Can you speak to that a little bit? It's not so much the random trauma anymore, as though there is probably still some of that, but there's a pattern that you are seeing.
Yeah, and, uh, it's a good question, and I think a lot of this happened during the pandemic for me, where this time was unbelievably challenging and scary, and you wanted to be able to navigate your patients and their families through this unbelievably challenging time.
And we saw tho- this clear link with metabolic syndrome, so metabolic syndrome being, uh, obesity, Type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes, uh, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and-
... and when you saw that link, and then as I was doing these podcasts, you realize that we could actually treat this, reverse people's metabolic syndromes, m- reverse their pre-diabetes or diabetes through diet, exercise.
... they're away from their families, the impact it's having on their family, the cost, about 50, 50 grand per ICU admission when at that time.
And that was my area of research, was how, uh, cost efficiency and how to make our dollar go further in healthcare.
Then there was this big aha moment, like if we prevent them from landing in hospital in the first place, holy cow, it's not only are you reducing the suffering that they're experiencing-
but what the family's experiencing, that 50-plus K that is costing the system.
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