Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

and it has been linked to rising rates of physician depression , doctor suicide , and medical errors. Despite increasing attention to physician wellness , the rates of burnout continue to rise—especially among frontline clinicians, medical students, and residents. Now we’re getting somewhere. But is it really moral injury?

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 31, 2024

December 17 th marked 11 years since this blog has been in existence, but for the first time ever since its creation, I managed to go the entire year without a single post! If you've been reading my blog for a while, then you know I basically completed a General Surgery based intern year. I had definitely been missing out!

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Representatives from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE), the Association of Program Directors in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (APDEM) and the Endocrine Society joined for a portion of the meeting*. Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. The following is a summary of the spring meeting.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours. They don’t have an addiction clinic. Eric: And why Under Pressure. I’m going to start off with Katie. Right, Katie?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. 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. Working with our clinical decision support team and thinking about where that could be. SPONSOR: .

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And I think also some of the stuff we’ll be talking about, when it comes to communication, I mean, a lot of the clinical encounter is listening to the music. Tell me about the clinical enc… How do you think the uncanny valley fits into medicine and communication training and skills? What is the uncanny valley? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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. Working with our clinical decision support team and thinking about where that could be. She’s a clinical research coordinator trained for many years.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Amber tells the moving story of how these findings led a clinical colleague, her chief, to question and change his behavior. As we’ve written about on GeriPal when we were a blog (a decade ago!) Amber: Well, simulation is pretending, so I think of the way I use simulation is in trying to simulate clinical care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

I started blogging as a patient, just talking about my own story online like patients did back in the day. I was like maybe I’ll write a blog post about this later. I’m going to try to remember as much as I can, so when I wake up, can I write a … My thought was I’m going to write a cool blog post about this.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Back then we were a blog and Ken’s post, which is titled, Survival from Severe Sepsis: The infection is cured, but all is not well, is still one of our most viewed posts on Jerry Powell. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

I remember walking through San Francisco Airport with Bob, we just happened to be there at similar times, and saying, “Eric and I are thinking about starting a blog.” Then, it was like, well, it does as well as, and now, better than humans passing the medical boards, passing the law boards, doing great on the SAT, all that stuff.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

And then I feel like when I’m in clinic I’m helping individuals, and you only have so much time to help so many people. In clinic, I’m helping what, hundreds or thousands. When I write, I learn a ton from that. And I tend to think of writing as my version of public health. Even if I write a scholarly article.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

It’s now so common that more than half of all doctors report symptoms, with medical students , residents , and even senior clinicians feeling pushed to the brink. If you’ve ever felt trapped, disillusioned, or burned out in your medical career—this talk may be the most important hour you’ve spent in years. .

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