Adventures of a Sick Doctor
JULY 4, 2024
Still though, he usually perks up when I come in, because he gets to show me my scans from November 2014 and compare them with now and we both applaud the wondrousness of the miracle that is my recovery. It was me, my liver, up on that screen, with a blob of stuff in it that shouldn't be there. That was a good week. It's today.
AMMD
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
My first breast cancer scare was in 2014, when they discovered calcifications for the first time during a routine mammogram. I also did a screening blood test to look for circulating tumor cells, which I will have an article on this soon! In fact, I had a similar situation happen to me not too long ago.
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Myriad Genetics
MAY 20, 2025
The study also used mental health screening instruments, the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) for depression, and the General Anxiety Disorder (GAD-2) for anxiety, to better understand this population.  He was elected to serve AAPOR as its Vice President, President, and Past President from 2011-2014.
The Clinical Problem Solvers
MARCH 4, 2024
She started in the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia around Sayantani, and wanted to focus on incarceration as a healthcare issue, and has since engaged in work that attempts to decarcerate health care. Sayantani became a physician since she thought it was a concrete tool for social justice. Stories are not inherently just.
GeriPal
JULY 21, 2022
Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. But I believe before we start, somebody has a song request for Alex. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. Eric: What’s the song? Emmy: I just forgot the name of the song… [laughter]. Alex: Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen? I like that song.
GeriPal
APRIL 6, 2023
Lexy: Yeah, so I can say that I became about, in 2014, I had the opportunity to lead a center at our health system called the Evans Center that focuses on religion, spirituality, and health. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. First, the lyrics, that’s the main reason why I chose it. The theme is death. LaVera: Yeah.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
First, in our editorial, we expressed concern about the length of stay metric not being patient centric, though important for health systems focused on cost savings. It was refreshing to hear Scott and Kate express similar sentiments. Much more to come. And I get to play Phish, who Scott has seen about 100 times in concert. I saw them only twice.
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