Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Insurance Patient-Centered Medical Student 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Together, these two phenomenal guests help us understand the structural and individual challenges of Indigenous peoples in academic medicine, public health, and beyond. Learn tangible ways to center the Indigenous communities in advocacy efforts at the interpersonal and institutional level.

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Medical Student Medical 52

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

First, we’ve invited Jerry Gurwitz to talk about his recently published article in JAMA titled The Paradoxical Decline of Geriatric Medicine as a Profession (while it’s not the most upbeat title for the future of geriatrics, Jerry sees it as a call to action). I was going to start off by asking Jerry about why he wrote the JAMA article.

Board-Certified 91

Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care.

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IT Families Family Clinic 102

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Community-based palliative care networks . And I believe it needs the community.

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing. But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing. And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA.

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115