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Remembering Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP

ABIM

Holly had a long and meaningful relationship with ABIM dating back to her first days on the ABIM Board of Directors in 2001. Gerard Professor in Medicine, the Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program and ultimately the Dean for Medical Education. Humphrey, MD, MACP first appeared on ABIM Blog.

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Behind the stethoscope: A conversation with Dr. Osman Saleem

Sound Physicians

I was born and raised in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, before immigrating to Toronto with my family. It was my father’s dream to have a child become a physician, and his support motivated me to pursue medicine. We understand each other’s personal and family situations, so if a need arises, we can handle it accordingly.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

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.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

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.

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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. And it was very clear, and she could now no longer recognize her family members. And the family says, dad would never want to live like this.

IT 89
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Ambivalence in Decision-Making: A Podcast with Joshua Briscoe, Bryanna Moore, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Olubukunola Dwyer

GeriPal

This podcast was initially sparked by Josh’s “Note From a Family Meeting” Substack post titled “ Ambivalence in Clinical Decision-Making ,” which discussed Bryanna’s and Jenny’s 2022 article titled “ Two Minds, One Patient: Clearing up Confusion About Ambivalence.” Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC

GeriPal

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Betty Ferrell has no relationships to disclose. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. Eric: So not from the patient perspective or family, but from the provider perspective?