Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We caught up with Dr. Osman Saleem, Medical Director for our hospital medicine practice at Mercy Hospital of Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, to go behind the stethoscope and learn more about how he came to Sound and his leadership journey:    When did you first consider a career in medicine? What keeps you at Sound?

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Barton Associates

MAY 29, 2025

When you think of healthcare, you likely think of doctors first. One way to increase access to care to patients who need it—especially those who live in rural areas with a higher shortage of healthcare professionals—is for current physicians to take locum tenens positions. Why become a locum tenens physician?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

Mary Dwyer, who is a lawyer, and bioethicist and assistant professor at Case Western Reserve and University Hospitals. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. Jenny: Good to be here. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome O. Eric: Great.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Mary Dwyer, who is a lawyer, and bioethicist and assistant professor at Case Western Reserve and University Hospitals. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. Jenny: Good to be here. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome O. Eric: Great.

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