Speaking

Lectures and grand rounds for physicians first, then for everyone else.

Three talks

Electrical at Both Ends

Grand rounds, medical societies, 45 to 60 minutes.

Medicine diagnoses with the ECG and the EEG and resuscitates with the defibrillator, then treats the decades in between with molecules. This talk traces the electrical record medicine already owns, from Einthoven to the 2025 approval of a vagus nerve stimulator for rheumatoid arthritis, grades what is established, emerging and unsupported in bioelectricity, and asks what a family doctor can measure in the middle. It names the words that should never be used, and why.

Is This Still the Right Medication?

Clinician conferences, primary care and women's health, 45 to 90 minutes.

A quarter of American women over sixty take an antidepressant, most prescribed by a non-psychiatrist, and the trials that licensed these drugs ran for weeks. This talk sets out the evidence on average effect, long-term use and withdrawal as both sides now accept it, the guideline shift to slow hyperbolic tapering, and a measurement-first way of asking one question with a patient: is this still doing anything? It concedes up front where medication is standard of care and stopping is dangerous.

The Vigil

General and TEDx audiences, 12 to 18 minutes.

The stress response was built for minutes. Kept on for years it becomes a vigil, and the vigil's costs get named as separate diseases. Using the heart's own rhythm as the measure, this talk shows what a nervous system that never stood down looks like in numbers, why women carry it differently, and the one breathing pace, learnable in an afternoon, at which the body's two branches fall back into step.

Available for

Visiting physician residencies of two to six weeks at destination clinics and private households, bringing the full pre-arrival measurement kit and the program's protocol. Design of measured protocols for clinics adopting microcurrent or neurofeedback, so that their results can be reported. Physician training in measurement-first deprescribing. Honoraria and travel at flat rates. No sponsorship, commission or fee from any device, laboratory or pharmaceutical company, ever.

Short bio

Kristy King, MD is a board-certified family physician on the Kohala Coast of Hawaiʻi, licensed in Hawaiʻi and eleven other US states, with a fellowship in integrative medicine from the University of Arizona. She runs the Week, a measured six-day residential program for women with ninety days of physician follow-up, and a ninety-day physician-led medication taper by telehealth. Her work sits in the gap between the electrical medicine of the cardiology suite and the pharmaceutical medicine of the clinic, and she promises no outcome.

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