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2025 Physician Wellness Retreats | Physician “Burnout” Retreats

Pamela Wible MD

Whether you’re launching your dream clinic, writing your first book, or exploring shamanic healing or magic mushrooms, these retreats are handcrafted to help you heal, grow, and thrive. Sponsorships available for medical students and residents. All health professionals welcomed. Ready to be your own boss?

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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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It's My Eight-Year Blogiversary!

Aspiring Minority Doctor

There were many posts in premedical/medical forum websites written by anonymous individuals who stated that people like myself (single mother, low GPA/MCAT, osteopathic medical school matriculant, etc) could never make it through medical school, pass medical board licensing exams, or match into a competitive specialty like plastic surgery.

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A Decade of Blogging!

Aspiring Minority Doctor

This blog has connected me with so many incredible individuals over the years, and it let me know the importance of sharing our stories. I am grateful for the many people and classmates who helped babysit so that I could make it to the lab and thrive as a medical student. Looking back, it has literally taken a village though!

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

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. The fact is most victims of moral injury struggle on their own.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. You’re a disgruntled medical student.

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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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