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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. And he asked me questions like, “Why is this patient in bed? And that one was also for me quite depressing to read ends with, “If you were considering a career with the lowest pay in the most complex patients consider geriatrics, yay.”

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. And this is a medical system that needs to be disrupted because our medical system (as you know) is endangering the lives of patients right now—and physicians. I was suicidal myself as a physician and I survived that in 2004. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible.

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