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Lower Extremity Bypass for Peripheral Artery Disease – Indications and What to Expect

Vascular Physician

Other more complicated cases may require open interventions such as endarterectomy and/or bypass. Overall, this procedure may seem quite complicated, but a large team of medical experts are involved in the care of each patient. There are several indications for surgical intervention for peripheral artery disease.

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

As I’ve been blogging about this for a couple months now, I’m really trying to find anyone who loves these things. I know this is like, we’re talking about math and so that makes it all a little complicated, but think about it this way. Drew: I’ve published a draft version of it on the blog.

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2024: Another Year of Happiness

Aspiring Minority Doctor

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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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

GeriPal

I started blogging as a patient, just talking about my own story online like patients did back in the day. Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

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. I think it’s really, really complicated. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

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. They blame the medical student. Tell her she is a difficult student and then preserve the career of the guy who’s the surgeon bringing in the money.

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