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Double-Booking the Doctor is Half-Booking the Patient

A Country Doctor Writes

We also sometimes double book them. The term “double booking” and the way it looks in an ordinary doctor’s scheduling grid suggest that the physician might possibly be expected to be in two places at the same time. Government. Double booking is sometimes used as a strategy to manage no-shows.

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Medicine or Madness?

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

You have to be able to laugh at situations, the system, the government, people and especially yourself (Mostly yourself). Sister N pointed to the screen with a blood pressure reading of 180/110. signed the barely carbonated EMS book, always wondering who can read the illegible writing which never reaches page 2 or 3.

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Away from war but no peace for Ukraine-returned Indian students

Tiny Physician

Governments declare war, but it is the civilians who suffer. Malavika completed her higher secondary education in the year 2017, and then she dropped one year for entrance exam preparation; however, her rank was not good enough to secure a government seat in Kerala. Hence, we got tickets for flights in the second week of March.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

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. Thomas: But the person did screen and used a little bit of the and Social Network Scale and the UCLA Loneliness Scale. Ashwin Kotwal: Oh, wow. What would it be?

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

So in truth, I called it a b r because the Book On B t, you ever read that, Bob? Eric: Yeah, great book. And I remember interviewing Captain Sullenberger for my book, and as he was describing accidents like this, he said, “They were flying a plane they were not familiar with, which is a plane without their digital wingman.”

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. It has multiple prints and updates. Diane: Yeah.