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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

That has placed them in the rare company of becoming one of the Top Fifteen Under 15 businesses in our community. When announcing the transition to a Direct Primary Care practice in April, 2017, they were met with criticism, anger, misunderstanding, and the loss of many patient relationships that meant a great deal to the entire team.

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

GeriPal

Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA. But I had a terrific MSTAR medical student working with me this past summer who was looking to see whether there were the type of medication, like the half life or was a Z versus a benzo.

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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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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). ” And you start entering into a conversation about support or relationships and things of that nature.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing.

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Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah

GeriPal

But there physically wasn’t the time, and there wasn’t that energy to be able to do everything for. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, and Ishwaria Subbiah have no relationships to disclose. It was pushing ten boulders up a mountain instead of just, you know, one.

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