ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

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Board-Certified 52

Board-Certified Internal Medicine Government Community 52

Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 18, 2023

Additionally, this past week alone, a large number of former medical students who rotated with me during my intern year graduated from the shorter duration residencies in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, etc and are now getting to do what they set out to do.

Medical Student 52

Medical Student Medical IT Internal Medicine 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . VA “gets” the importance of storytelling in medicine, without the need for reams of research to back it up. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

Patient-Centered 115

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. And so I really gain that and I love the chorus words that she uses in this song.

IT 105

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

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. It was this slow build, I would say. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For example, is reluctance to take on more responsibility at work or relocate because you feel inadequate or is it because of genuine concern about the impact on your family? They may not graduate because of the internal capacity issue. Sometimes it is difficult to disentangle these questions from feelings of imposter syndrome.

IT 104

IT Medical Student Medical Families 104