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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes. The study involved 188 middle-aged and older adults who had been using medications like lorazepam, alprazolam, clonazepam, temazepam, and zolpidem for insomnia. in the usual care group.

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Doctors for America Calls for Transparency in COVID-19 Vaccine Regulation

Doctors for America

As physicians, we know that access to these evidence-based tools to prevent severe illness, disability, and death, are essential to the care of our patients and our shared goal to improve the health of all Americans. Millions of Americans continue to live with complications of this disease and long COVID.

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MAFP Supports Two Student Programs This Summer!

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Community-based palliative care networks . Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. And I believe it needs the community. And the community came in.

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

GeriPal

Liz wrote a fabulous perspectives piece in the NEJM titled “ Deciding on My Dimples ” which talks about her experience as a patient doing shared decision making during neurosurgery for resection of an astrocytoma. But my piece in the New England Journal is about being a patient right before awake brain surgery.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

It’s now so common that more than half of all doctors report symptoms, with medical students , residents , and even senior clinicians feeling pushed to the brink. In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. They blame the medical student. Dr. Pamela Wible soon discovered why.

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