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

GeriPal

Then I got online as a patient advocate and started connecting with the brain tumor community on social media and Facebook and Twitter, and actually started working in the healthcare space, in palliative care advocacy, for a palliative care advocacy organization in California, which is where I’m based, about eight years ago.

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

GeriPal

And it culminated in him giving a bad light to the patient in the hospital room because that was the only semblance of normalcy for this patient. When patients leave the hospital, the infection may be cured, but the patient and family will need to contend with a host of major new functional and cognitive deficits.

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PRESS RELEASE: Doctors for America Calls for Evidence-Based Solutions After FSU Shooting

Doctors for America

Since Columbine, there have been over 420 school shootings in the United States, resulting in countless deaths and lifelong trauma for students, educators, families, and communities. Doctors see the human toll of gun violence every single day—in emergency rooms, in trauma centers, and in the quiet moments of grief that follow.