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The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

The kickoff to my new employer’s effort to integrate primary care and behavioral health led to many more meetings and eventually to embedding one LCSW into each of our relatively small primary care offices. The organization now employs a single psychiatric nurse practitioner for medication management.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. ” And that made me think really, really hard about the world, about our country, about our medical care system and how it feels about geriatrics, not geriatrics, but the profession realized I wrote about the profession of geriatric medicine.