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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. Bring specialized skills that might be otherwise lacking among permanent staff. Enter temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens providers.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. 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. Alex: Okay.

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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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