The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

However, this is a personal finance blog, and for me, it goes beyond that. Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. One of my first articles ever written on this site was titled: Emergency Fund: Your First Financial Goal.

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Insurance Finance Community Medical Advice 52

BMJ

JULY 17, 2020

Associate Professor & Dr. Longtao He, Research Institute of Social Development, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China. 4 This short article draws on lessons learnt from other infectious disease outbreaks, such as HIV and Ebola, to help inform approaches to COVID-19-related stigma within China.

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Community Individual Physicals Finance 40

The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 7, 2024

I am heartbroken for the communities affected by this storm and for our fellow healthcare providers who are either dealing with this in their personal lives or having to navigate recovery as part of their careers. You can find the entire article by heading to The Motivated M.D.: Another Monday worthy of motivation. The Motivated M.D.

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Medical Advice Community Healthcare Individual 52

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP. Sarah Nouri gives an example from her work in the LGBTQ+ community of a trans woman who was buried as a man because existing laws/rules did not protect her wishes. And as you know, it’s a great article. And I love Gladys Knight.

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Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 95

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. We’ve had difficulty in recruiting and engaging in those communities, and that’s on our end. It’s not on the community’s end. So it matters a lot to the person, to their family, to the community.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As a springboard for this conversation we discuss new prognostic models developed to predict (simultaneously) mortality, disability, and mobility impairment ( Alex Lee first author, JAGS ) and mortality for people with dementia residing in the community ( James Deardorff first author, JAMA IM ). . I think mortality is the final end path.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Today we talk with Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint, and Anne Kelly, authors of a JGIM article on the reasons we shouldn’t stop at “no.” I’m not going to talk about finances. It might be a hired caregiver, it might be a social worker in the community or other person who may not identify with that word friend or family.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 97