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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. Check out our job board and apply today to get started! The post 2025 Doctor Job Outlook: Why Go Locum Tenens?

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Behind the stethoscope: A conversation with Dr. Osman Saleem

Sound Physicians

It was my father’s dream to have a child become a physician, and his support motivated me to pursue medicine. I attended medical school in America and completed my residency at the Catholic Health Internal Medicine program in Buffalo, New York. It was my job to work back to that program and gain that respect back.

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

GeriPal

Eric: So we’ve had an interesting topic today, storytelling and medicine, narrative medicine… We’ll talk about what we should call it, but before we do, Heather, I think you have a song request. Summary Transcript Summary. But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No Transcript. Here we go.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? VA “gets” the importance of storytelling in medicine, without the need for reams of research to back it up. My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube.

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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. Julien: Thanks Alex, thanks Eric. It’s great to be here. Alex: (Singing).

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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. Eric 00:13 And Alex, who do you have with us today? Alex 00:14 We have a very full house today. Hope Wechkin brought this topic to us. 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

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. What about ambivalence on the part of the provider? How should we think about that?