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GeriPal
MAY 19, 2022
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.
Pamela Wible MD
JUNE 20, 2025
and it has been linked to rising rates of physician depression , doctor suicide , and medical errors. Despite increasing attention to physician wellness , the rates of burnout continue to rise—especially among frontline clinicians, medical students, and residents. Doctors have the highest suicide rate of any profession.
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GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. – Anticipatory corpse book mentioned several times on the podcast. Today we talk with Josh about how to anticipate and avoid the uncanny valley. And talk about times when we’ve fallen into it. .
GeriPal
DECEMBER 8, 2022
As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L., Doorenbos, A. PMID: 26701962.
GeriPal
MARCH 13, 2025
Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? His latest book is called Becoming Forest A Story of Deep Belonging, and he’s the founder of the Becoming Forest Project.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 15, 2022
On today’s podcast we talk with Jason Karlawish, who we’ve had on previously talking about his book The Problem of Alzheimer’s and with Aaron Kesselhim, to discuss FDA approval of Aducanumab , as well as frequent guest and host Ken Covinsky. . Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.
GeriPal
MAY 12, 2022
He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. I have written about it in the book. Tom: Okay, great. Was it that thunderclap moment?
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