Dr. Steve Stites and guests discuss how doctors here in Kansas City are helping doctors in central Kansas care for critically ill patients without an ICU. Guests include Dr. Heath Latham, pulmonary and critical care medicine, and Dr. Jonathan Pike in Great Bend, Kansas, with Great Bend Family Medicine.

Steve Stites, MD, chief medical officer at The University of Kansas Health System, was joined by Colette Lasack, Vice President of Revenue Cycle at the health system. They took a close look at how insurance is changing for COVID patients.

Dr. Steve Stites is joined by Dr. Gregory Poland, director of Mayo Clinic's vaccine research group, who is back to talk about vaccines and virus variants.

Dr. Steve Stites, chief medical officer at The University of Kansas Health System, talks with Dr. Brad Nelson, a pediatrician at the health system. Dr. Nelson treats children for prolonged — or long hauler — COVID symptoms.

Faced with too many patients and not enough room, COVID is straining emergency departments. Dr. Steve Stites is joined by our chief of emergency medicine as well as the medical director of Johnson County EMS to explain how hospitals are handling the high volume and what effect that could have on you.

We've been talking about staff exhaustion and fatigue. Dr. Steve Stites talks with Dr. Chris Brown and ICU manager Casey Pickering, RN. They have been in the fight against COVID who have been at this for more than a year. We’ll hear their plea to the public to help break the surge in cases.

Dr. Catherine Satterwhite, regional health administrator for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, talks about the importance of getting vaccinated and protecting those around you. Also, Dr. Lewis Satterwhite, pulmonary and critical care physician at the health system, discusses the different treatments available for those fighting COVID.

Dr. Joseph McGuirk talks with Dr. Steve Stites about the incredible new work being done for lymphoma patients, including CAR T-cell therapy.

Dr. Steven Stites and experts answer your COVID questions and also reflect on rural healthcare in a time of COVID.

It's been 40 years since the start of the AIDS epidemic. Dr. Steve Stites, our chief medical officer, and his guests talk history, how far we've come and what we've learned.