Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

Characterized by cynicism, exhaustion, and reduced job satisfaction, physician burnout can lead to devastating personal and professional consequences, including strained relationships, substance abuse, early retirement, and even suicide. Yet moral injury is not an official diagnosis. Not burnout.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

An end-of-life doula is a non-medical support person that provides a longitudinal relationship with aspects of medical, I mean, aspects of companionship, presence, holding space, some logistics, some practical help, decision making perhaps. There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

I was part of a writing group that wrote clinical guidelines for VSET for voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. And she was from Oregon, of course, and in Oregon in 2012, she had completed an advanced directive for stopping eating and drinking once she had advanced dementia. Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid.

IT 88

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