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2021 Physician Holiday Gift Guide

Aspiring Minority Doctor

Any healthcare professional would benefit from some Medelita gear, so head over to their website and treat the physician in your life. I bought a few of these socks (and was also gifted some by my little brother) when I was a medical student, and to this day I still wear the same socks with great compression.

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). 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., Summary Transcript Summary.

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

GeriPal

First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. Patient Values: Three Important Questions-Tell me more? Simple, right? Not so much, as each one of these steps is fraught with miscommunication. What else?

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

We can train medical students and residents about geriatrics without geriatricians. We can change healthcare systems and improve the care of older adults without geriatricians. And same with what we’re learning from the residents and the medical students that are joining. I don’t think you should.

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Avoiding the Uncanny Valley in Serious Illness Communication: Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered, which you’ve uttered a hundred times before, came out rote and scripted? And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Summary Transcript Summary. Yeah, I’ve been there too.

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Are You Going To Wake Up From Cryosleep?

The Medical Futurist

Michigan professor, Robert Ettinger proposed cryonics in 1964 in a book called The Prospect of Immortality, which argued that death could, in fact, be a reversible process. However, if we could make it work, it would really be a game-changer — from saving terminally ill patients to solving one of the main problems of interstellar travels.

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

GeriPal

So I’m going to last longer in my position and I’m going to seek opportunities to grow and to help families and patients more and more. We’re just like, “Okay, I see this patient has a need. For example, there was one time when a patient had hiccups, it was like, “I don’t know what to do about this.”

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