Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit. The experience will certainly shape the rest of my career.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Our guests are BJ Miller, palliative care physician and c-founder of Mettle Health , and Naomi Saks, chaplain at UCSF. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. Naheed, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Eric 00:34 I’m excited for this.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. You started off as a physician, right? LaVera: Yes.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Kit Carney and Dr. Kristen Humphrey discuss gun violence, its impact on our patients and their families, as well as practical tips on advocating for safe storage of firearms, and how we can support victims of violence. When we protect our kids from the dangers of gun violence, the whole community stands to benefit. 10.1542/peds.2012-2481

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

And actually, just my experience of that actually, I think made me want to be more, to understand more about what was going on in the community and be more part of how we could support older adults in the community, particularly around asian hate, which then I ended up moving to unlock in 2022. Eric 18:34 And what did you find?

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that. It is completely disconnected, like a scatter plot, between things like rates of substance use and mental health.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

Gillette” Gillette-Pierce May 2, 2023 Summary: This episode highlights the psychosocial and cultural considerations for providing healthcare to immigrant and refugee populations. She notes she was born in Iran and her family emigrated to Canada and then to the United States just a month before 9/11.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Diminished reimbursements from the state-federal health insurance program for those with low incomes or disabilities would further erode hospitals’ ability to stay open and maintain services for their communities — populations with more severe health needs than their urban counterparts. Edward Markey (D-Mass.),

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

And it would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities, and another to support the mental health of people of color with HIV or at risk of infection. “But I am grateful that I am part of a community that will not bow down.” He has taken on the role of dad or uncle to many.

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Physicians News Digest

MARCH 31, 2025

The firings that began in February are taking a significant toll on federal employees’ mental health. Researchers who study job loss say these mass layoffs not only are disrupting the lives of tens of thousands of federal workers but also will reverberate out to their spouses, children, and communities.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

Harm to HIV, Vaccine Studies The NIH, with its nearly $48 billion annual budget, is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, awarding nearly 59,000 grants in the 2023 fiscal year. In November 2023, he told an anti-vaccine group, “I’m gonna say to NIH scientists, ‘God bless you all. health care system and academia.

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