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Choosing to Rent or Buy a Home in 2025

The Motivated MD

The decision to rent or buy a home is the root of much anxiety in many individuals’ lives. This marks the 10th chapter of our Doctor Money finance series, which I hope to complete and formally turn into a publishable book or e-book in the not-too-distant future. Stay tuned!

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults.

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Anatomy of a Healthy Plate- Guest Blogger Rebecca Gray

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

However, people need to understand what works best for them individually. Yes, both are important, but family, faith, work, money and the environment we create matter too. We follow ALL VACCINATION GUIDELINES set forth by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Medicine! Learn more.","robots":"index","keywords":"skin

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family. That’s so good for us.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

We did another nudging trial where the deep default was for default palliative care consultations for high risk patients, and it significantly increased individuals who were receiving palliative care. I mean, Cass Sunstein and Dick Thauer wrote a book entitled nudge. Their family members want them to get out of the hospital sooner.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. We provide critical conversations with colleagues and families to coordinate transition planning.” Are there any tools?

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. And who’s a latest book is Dignity and Care: The Human Side of Medicine.