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

GeriPal

I was really fascinated not only with the medical side of things, but some of the. The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. So you have the consultation. Anish, can I ask you why you went into radiation oncology? Anish 04:13 Yeah. Thank you.

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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. What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. Raj: That’s one of the high tech medical absurdities that we have developed. Was it that thunderclap moment?

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

GeriPal

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. And we received this consult to assist with goals of care. We’ll act it out. Dani: Totally. And he was livid.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. Bill 16:55 First of all, I just have to go back to Dax, because Dax in 1973 is when I first came out here as a senior medical student and met Al Johnson. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them. We can make this better.