Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We caught up with Dr. Osman Saleem, Medical Director for our hospital medicine practice at Mercy Hospital of Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, to go behind the stethoscope and learn more about how he came to Sound and his leadership journey:    When did you first consider a career in medicine?

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Hospital Telemedicine Healthcare Provider 52

GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

The company has expanded its palliative care services through partnerships with hospitals and other managed care providers, according to AccentCare CEO Stephan Rodgers. Attendee 13: I am most hopeful that we will continue to really promote culture change for our healthcare system that desperately needs it. Attendee 3: Oh.

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Specialization Illness Healthcare Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. Barbara: Oh, I think it was 2013. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family.

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IT Family Families Clinic 102

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Graduated in 2013, did a two-year clinician educator track. I’ve talked to, I don’t know if you know Houman Javedan from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. ” And in my head the answer was, “Because they’re in the hospital.” Ryan: I started in 2011. Why do they have a Foley catheter?”

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Knowing I was interested in neurology and had opportunities to observe brain death determination in the hospital. Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. So in the case of Jahi McMath, you were talking about, you know, her family was kicked out of the hospital.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 113

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . But hospitalizations are low.

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Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100