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2025 Doctor Job Outlook: Why Go Locum Tenens?

Barton Associates

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? Check out our job board and apply today to get started!

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Behind the stethoscope: A conversation with Dr. Osman Saleem

Sound Physicians

I attended medical school in America and completed my residency at the Catholic Health Internal Medicine program in Buffalo, New York. Learn more about careers at Sound Posted in Careers , Hospital Medicine , Leadership Share Article Subscribe to the Sound Physicians Blog A trusted source for todays healthcare needs.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by UCSF’s Division of Palliative Medicine , an amazing group doing world class palliative care. You did write a blog post about him though, Eric. A few Dignity Therapy- Harvey Max Chochinov links. About us – Dignity in Care.

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

GeriPal

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.

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

GeriPal

You did write a blog post about him though, Eric. Faith Fitzgerald, who we referenced on a recent podcast as being a great critic of prognosis when she said it was the punctilious quantification of the inherently amorphous, but she also wrote one of my favorite articles called Curiosity in Annals of Internal Medicine.

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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. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you.

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

GeriPal

He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. I don’t know if you all saw, but there was a beautiful essay today in JAMA Internal Medicine by Randy Curtis’s wife and daughter about his end-of-life experiences. Josh: Thank you, you all.