Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 31, 2021

It's New Year's Eve, I'm currently in the Emergency Room working my final night shift for the month, and you know what? Spending NYE 2021 living my dreams! I am overjoyed beyond words! 2021 was a true reflection of what staying prayed up, being patient, keeping the faith, and trusting in God's plan will bring.

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NPR Health - Shots

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Farzon Nahvi spent the first few months of the pandemic as an emergency room physician in Manhattan. His new book is Code Gray. He talks about trying to improvise treatments during that time.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

David is a physician who wrote the book “ Stoned: A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” and gave a TED talk on “ A Doctor’s Case for Medical Marijuana ” that was watched over 3 million times. And, David, I’m going to start off with you because you wrote an entire book about this. Eric 06:53 I loved your book.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 100

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A lot of assisted livings, it’s acted like it’s not even a choice, that it’s usually the default is you go to the emergency room. So, I would just like to see that we now have a rule book, a code book, and something that we can use to build toolkits.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Because our division of geriatrics has such expertise in secondary data analysis and how their retirement studies, can set me off on this task to go read the code books in HRS. I’m wondering, you talked about that patient who was really isolated and coming to the emergency room.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Her most recent book is Elderhood. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

So at least in my practice, that’s often how this has happened, unless these conversations have taken place beforehand, either in the emergency room or with primary care providers. And I really want to encourage people to … Wes Ely writes beautifully about that in his book. Julien: Lauren, I totally agree with you.

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