Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

It was my father’s dream to have a child become a physician, and his support motivated me to pursue medicine. I attended medical school in America and completed my residency at the Catholic Health Internal Medicine program in Buffalo, New York. It was my job to work back to that program and gain that respect back.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini Feature Article Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts. This January 2024 article by Nick Hernandez on avoiding strategic planning mistakes gives this tip: 2. Click here to read the rest of the article and be sure to check back next week for another Tip of the Week!

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 24, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini Blog Article Thoughtful design in medical practices enhance patient experience, boost staff productivity, and improve online reviews without major renovations. First impressions in medicine form long before anyone touches a stethoscope. 65: Patient autonomy with Jeffrey A. Singer, M.D.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini News Article Physicians Practice Physicians Practice June 2025 Volume 3 Issue 3 This year’s survey shows medical practice administrators wrestling with familiar challenges and new uncertainties. 67: Immigration policy and the physician shortage with Thomas E. Price, M.D.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 27, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article The small details, like restroom cleanliness, shape patient perceptions and impact healthcare experiences in practices. Please share your stories for a future article at doctorwhiz@gmail.com. I gathered my staff and asked if they would feel comfortable using this restroom in its current condition.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 25, 2025

He has authored or co-authored over 250 articles that have appeared in peer-reviewed medical publications on various urologic topics as well as articles on practice management. Baum is Professor of Clinical Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana. 70: The state of private practice with Paul Berggreen, M.D.,

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 16, 2025

Reynolds Feature Article Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts. Click here to read the rest of the article and be sure to check back next week for another Tip of the Week! Reynolds Published: June 9th 2025 | Updated: June 9th 2025 Article Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 6, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini Blog Article These nine cost-effective strategies can boost employee morale and retention in medical practices, addressing turnover without breaking the budget. Turnover is eating medical practices alive. Below are nine no-cost tactics to lift morale today and retention tomorrow.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 19, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini Blog Article These essential strategies will enable your practice to safeguard digital assets and ensure compliance. Reynolds June 9th 2025 Article Your monthly collection of insights from the Physicians Practice Pearls writers is available now!

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Our first guest is Emily McDonald, who’s a physician in general medicine and epidemiologist and Associate professor at McGill. It seems very easy to prescribe medicines, and we do that very well. Eric 00:04 And Alex, we ve got another deprescribing super special with us today. We’re still working on this issue. Here we go.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kemi Doll , a physician-researcher and coach, has a terrific podcast I highly recommend everyone listen to, though it is targeted at women of color in academic medicine. On the other hand, there is a concerning side, described in this Guardian article titled, I’m a life coach, you’re a life coach: rise of an unregulated industry.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article Physicians Practice Physicians Practice June 2025 Volume 3 Issue 3 Physicians navigate challenging payer negotiations, sharing success stories of securing approvals for innovative, cost-effective treatments. Neil Baum, MD Payer negotiations are like David confronting Goliath.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 26, 2025

In just three to five minutes every contributor will introduce themselves, share a signature “pearl” they rely on in daily work or preview the practical themes they will unpack in upcoming articles. He has also written The Complete Business Guide to a Successful Medical Practice, which was published in 2015.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article Innovative medical practices thrive by embracing change, prioritizing patient care and learning from setbacks to enhance success and satisfaction. Neil Baum, MD Successful practices do not follow others; rather, they make their own paths and follow their own pathways and agendas.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

And because we can’t resist, we dip into aducanumab and lecanemab at the end. AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. This is Eric Widera. Kristine, do you have a song request for Alex? Kristine: Well, I did have a song, but I was negligent at giving it to him. So, he tried to read my mind… Eric: What was your song?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 16, 2025

My article concluded: When reviewing colorectal cancer screening test choices with patients, family physicians can continue to recommend annual or biennial FIT as a comparable option to colonoscopy. But an analysis published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine indicates that it does not.

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Tiny Physician

JULY 14, 2021

By the end of my internship, I was quite interested in Internal Medicine (IM) and wanted to pursue the same for my residency. This article is for those who are perplexed between IM or Pediatrics and want to know more about the subject in detail and the possible circumstances that they will have to face during residency.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) Eric: So we’ve had an interesting topic today, storytelling and medicine, narrative medicine… We’ll talk about what we should call it, but before we do, Heather, I think you have a song request. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Eric 01:27 So we ve got a podcast on music and medicine. You emailed me about doing a podcast on music and medicine. So I actually was doing a grand rounds as my final presentation here at Yale for my fellowship on the role of music in host pice and palliative medicine. Jenny 04:45 Like, the last article was, like, 10 years ago.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

We’re delighted to welcome Mike Steinman, who’s a geriatrician professor of medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics, prior guest on this podcast. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Todd Semla, who is a clinical pharmacist and associate professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, I am very excited today because there was an awesome article on Annals on conservative management versus dialysis.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’d also like to give a shout out to a recent ACP article on HFpEF with an outstanding contribution from Ariela Orkaby, geriatrician extraordinaire (we also just did a podcast with her on frailty ). ** This podcast is not CME eligible. He’s in Boston. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. Parag 01:06 Thank you.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . Brian: Thanks so much.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. Alex 02:21 For Eric 02:21 For unrepresented older adults. Tim 02:29 Yeah, it’s such an honor to make a song request.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? VA “gets” the importance of storytelling in medicine, without the need for reams of research to back it up. Summary Transcript Summary. It wasn’t until the end that the best term emerged – storycatching. Here we go.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On this podcast we talk about her paper in JAMA Internal Medicine which studied three hospitals that varied in the intensity of care they provided to seriously ill patients. This field is not new. In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Graphic Medicine. Nathan is a Palliative Care doctor and an assistant professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . Graphic Novels. I’m not sure what to title this podcast but I’ve been looking forward to it for some time. Why, because today we have Nathan Gray joining us.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What is making this hard for me?

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We discuss an article they wrote about PULET for the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, including: What makes a PULET a PULET? And I get to sing Bon Jovis Bad Medicine, which is such a fun song! Adam 01:12 American Journal of Palliative Medicine. Think vitamins. How ought clinicians respond? I can tell.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

– @AlexSmithMD Here’s a link to an article about the Palliative Story Exchange. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. All right, I’m going to start us off with one of my few questions on here because we’re going to get to exchanging stories too, is medicine is an evidence based discipline. That’s medicine.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

And although it wasn’t a conscious decision, or connection, in my mind between entering medicine and the experience of having grown up in a family with Ellen. But once I got into medicine, I found myself attracted to the field of psychiatry. And decided, interesting article, but it raised as many questions as it answered.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A great Curbsiders podcast episode on Trauma-informed care with Megan Gerber CAPCs Trauma-informed care toolkit Mariahs article on Home-Based Care for LGBTQ or another diverse gender identity Older Adults ** This podcast is not CME eligible. Mariah discussed her JAGS paper on applying a trauma-informed approach to home visits. Here we go.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Tammie 04:51 Yeah, so I would say that 30 years we’ve been in the palliative care space, not in emergency medicine, but we’ve been advancing the science in general palliative care for over 30 years and just plugging away with it, study after study after study to build the field. They got training in Vital Talk and ELNEC.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. Julien: Thanks Alex, thanks Eric. It’s great to be here. Alex: (Singing).

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Have any of you watched the movie The Notebook ? At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences an episode of lucidity. When I watched it, between tears (Im a complete softie) I remember thinking, Oh no! This will give people false hope! That their loved one is in there. Andrew 00:42 Hey, everyone.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We’re gonna be talking about three different articles that are gonna be presented Saturday, I believe, at the annual meeting. Three different articles. Another interpretation is that clinicians avoided telling the parents prognosis in order to bolster their ratings of trust and communication quality. Which is it? We’ll see.

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