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Unexpected Praise for Direct Pay Practices from Dr. Vonnegut – A Book Review

Noreta Family Medicine

Unexpected Praise for Direct Pay Practices from Dr. Vonnegut – A Book Review Occasionally there are things that happen that reinforce the decisions I’ve made in my career, and this was one of those times! A friend recently gave me the book The Heart of Caring: a life in pediatrics by Mark Vonnegut, MD. He gets it!”

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Elderhood. She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information.

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Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

GeriPal

“Typically when we think about conscience in medical ethics we think about it in terms of a negative claim of conscience, where a clinician refuses (or objects) to provide care. Lisa was writing about providing abortion care, but she just as easily could have been writing about providing medical aid in dying in states where it is illegal.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. Families can sue the employer financially liable for killing their own employees by overworking them (when they die of heart attacks, strokes and they’re found dead like by their computer because they’ve been working for so long). It’s Japanese.

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