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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

I enjoy seeing patients for all kinds of visits as well – mental health, physicals, GYN concerns, coughs/colds, etc. Therefore, these doctors are not eligible to become board-certified in any of the specialties recognized by the AMA’s American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). You can tell me anything!

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

And I was looking for articles, and I wasn’t seeing as many as I expected. Jenny 04:45 Like, the last article was, like, 10 years ago. I am not a board certified. I am not a certified music therapist. And I loved in that article on the JJ article, you start off with a story like Mr. A and Mozart.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. Eric: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. It’s the same measure we used in the New England journal article. So you’d have to make a solid argument to get it through a review board. Who will emerge victorious?

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. And that article really, it’s by Suleika Jaouad, and it focused on some of the peer workers that we have. And she read that article and was very moved by the work that these men are doing, and so she wrote the song about that.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

You wrote the SF Chronicle article on an op-ed. Carly: Absolutely, and I will say we had a really hard time narrowing it down to these three because amongst those of us who wrote that article, we can think of hundreds of people. So Carly, I’m going to start off with you. What instigated you to write an op-ed?