Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

The first few chapters discuss the problems with mental health care in the U.S. Dr. Smith shares the stories of several patients he met during residency and his early years in practice who illustrate the bad outcomes that accompany not attending to patient's emotions and focusing solely on their physical problems.

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Mental Health IT Primary Care Primary Care Physician 52

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding. We are not a Monolith.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. Her most recent book is Elderhood. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal. Louise 00:26 Thanks for having me.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care. They’re more, more interested in relationship centered care than the fancy medicines that you’re. Non abandonment is a core principle of palliative care. But it was really traumatic for me as a trainee living in Toronto.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100