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Is a Medical Office Assistant Career Right for You?

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

They support patients and clinical staff by handling the essential administrative tasks that keep healthcare facilities running smoothly. Booking, rescheduling, or canceling appointments. Professionalism: In healthcare, professional conduct involves compassion for patients and using discretion to protect private information.

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Lessons Learned From My Hiatus

The Motivated MD

Further, finding the correct balance between pursuing my writing passion while still managing the business side of a blog was challenging as well. managing significant educational debt, navigating physician mortgages, owning your own practice, etc.). It is because of this I do still intend to finish my book.

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

But wait, before you throw out that equianalgesic table, we also invited Dr. Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD extraordinaire who published this amazing book, Demystifying Opioid Conversions , 2nd Ed., Until the second edition of my book, that is. Drew: She updated an equianalgesic table and published that in the second edition of her book.

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. For example, with peritoneal dialysis and conservative management.

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). So you published this book intentionally. Like, what is this book? And she said, okay, great, write the book.

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Stump the VitalTalk Communication Experts: Gordon Wood, Holly Yang, Elise Carey

GeriPal

During the podcast, we reference a newly released second-edition book that our guests published titled “ Navigating Communication with Seriously Ill Patients: Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope.” Why did you all decide to write an updated book on navigating communication with serious ill patients? Anne, welcome back.

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Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm

GeriPal

Have you had difficulty managing a particular type of cancer pain? Janet Abrahm is one of the world’s experts in pain and symptom management for patients with cancer joins us to talk about (among other things): Ketamine for hyperalgesia and allodynia, how to treat dissociative side effects. Alex: It’s a wonderful book.