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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

Many healthcare facilities in the U.S. are already struggling with staffing shortages , but others have turned to healthcare staffing agencies like Barton Associates to fill in the gaps. Enter temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens providers.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

Eric: Well, before we talk about dysphagia and revisit it, which is also interesting, because this is our first podcast, I think on dysphagia, but we’ve talked about it before on GeriPal, in our blog. But again, most of my clinical practice, until recent years, has been in the acute care setting. Raele: I do. I have one.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

I actually wrote a blog post about this when we were a blog. We were a blog? I’m most proud that when we started the blog, there was some tension between Geriatrics and Palliative care. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. Remember way back when?

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. So, all this stuff, like Katie said, and Devon said, but on a human level and on a clinical practice level, just reducing healthcare stigma for our patients, I think, is what would make the most everyday difference in what we do. What is it called?

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

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!) What should our listeners take away from this study in clinical practice? Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Amber.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. This is just because this arose organically in clinical practice as a way of balancing these underlying competing ethical issues.

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