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Is a Medical Office Assistant Career Right for You?

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

They support patients and clinical staff by handling the essential administrative tasks that keep healthcare facilities running smoothly. Booking, rescheduling, or canceling appointments. Professionalism: In healthcare, professional conduct involves compassion for patients and using discretion to protect private information.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

Additionally, here are some of the resources we talked about during the podcast: Eduardo Brueras editorial that accompanies the JAMA paper titled Improving Palliative Care Access for Patients With Cancer Our podcast on Stepped Palliative Care with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar The book What’s in the Syringe?

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

Like, I’ve had people who’ve appointed their super as their healthcare decision makers and certainly, I mean, I feel like every, every time we talk about what’s changed in, in day to day life, we reflect on Covid. And they say, no, there’s no end with that. Or do you dive deeper?

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. So I do think it often does happen that younger adults appoint a surrogate when they engage in estate planning, for example. And I don’t think necessarily, that appointment needs to be a medicalized process.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

So I wonder Nathan, comment, if you could for us, on these comics, graphic art as a mechanism for teaching people, whether it’s within the palliative care community or the broader audience of clinicians that this clearly would appeal to as well. She has a book out. She also has a book out, shout out those folks.

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Between Two Urns: Undertaker Thomas Lynch

GeriPal

I first met Thomas when he visited UC Berkeley in the late 90’s after publishing his book, “ The Undertaking: Stories from the Dismal Trade.” He is the author of six collections of poems and six books of essays, and he has a book of short stories and a novel forthcoming. So we think of the boxes first. It just depends.

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