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5 things you can do to improve your health that have nothing to do with dieting

Vida Family Medicine

As a family physician, I spend a lot of time with patients focusing on how to best take care of themselves to prevent or manage chronic disease. Often when I meet a patient who is taking steps to improve their health, the first thing that they do is make changes to what they are eating.

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How frustrating work environment affects empathy in resident doctors?

Tiny Physician

A few days back, a video went viral on social media in which a resident doctor (a doctor who is undergoing post-graduation / PG doctor) was shouting at the bystander of a patient. Nevertheless, PG doctors have to work 80 to 100 hours a week without any holidays and this tiring schedule does affect their physical and mental health.

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? And, David, I’m going to start off with you because you wrote an entire book about this. Eric 06:53 I loved your book. Do you want one?

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. Delighted to be here.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

staff training in person centered care). But why I decided to look at medical and mental health care and assisted living. So, that’s why we did this project, the Delphi panel, to say what really should be recommended for medical and mental health care in assisted living?

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

Our guests are BJ Miller, palliative care physician and c-founder of Mettle Health , and Naomi Saks, chaplain at UCSF. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. What do we mean by health? I’ve had a patient in one room, they have stage four breast cancer.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

And also kind of highlights, you know, part of what we try to do in geriatrics and palliative care is really individualize how we care for individual, like, the people in front of us, the patients, the caregivers, their family members, their friends. And then the other thing is really partnering with your patient or your clients in terms of.