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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential. So you have the consultation. Eric 27:57 And for those, does everything just condense as far as consultation, simulation and dose?

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. Raj: That’s one of the high tech medical absurdities that we have developed. And we actually found that when she was really terminally ill, she had a cancer that was potentially curable if treated early, it was not.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

GeriPal

The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. It’ll come out in these deviant behaviors, just like you mentioned earlier, where maybe we stave off seeing that patient, send the medical student instead or delay that visit till the end of the day.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them.