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Aspiring Minority Doctor
DECEMBER 17, 2023
Okay, now I'll admit I've done a horrible job of keeping up with the blog lately especially given that this is only my fifth post of the year, but today is still super special for me. I was originally told that as a premedical student and single mother with low stats, that I would not make it into medical school.
GeriPal
MAY 19, 2022
A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. Step four is adjusting it for your patient. How do you do that?
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ABIM
JUNE 4, 2025
Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. See the discussion on the Special Consideration IMG (International Medical Graduates) Pilot Pathway below.)
GeriPal
APRIL 14, 2022
Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . We got some really special guests with us. So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered, which you’ve uttered a hundred times before, came out rote and scripted? And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Summary Transcript Summary. Yeah, I’ve been there too.
GeriPal
MARCH 30, 2023
Liz wrote a fabulous perspectives piece in the NEJM titled “ Deciding on My Dimples ” which talks about her experience as a patient doing shared decision making during neurosurgery for resection of an astrocytoma. But my piece in the New England Journal is about being a patient right before awake brain surgery. I could learn this.
GeriPal
MARCH 16, 2023
We have two authors, books, op-eds, prolific authors, and today’s podcast is a two-part special. Rosanne: I think I was motivated by the number of times patients asked me to get rid of their pot-bellies, quite honestly. And my patients started coming in talking about why didn’t you ever recommend that to me?
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