GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

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. Alex 13:34 MSTAR medical students in aging research apply now. I think the application medications are due soon, Eric.

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Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 119

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

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. I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital. Anish, can I ask you why you went into radiation oncology?

Patient-Centered 102

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. I mean, just such struggles around corruption in hospitals, access to opioid pain medication, and you almost had to wait until a friend of yours was in power, so you could have access, get permission. So, the community comes in.

Community 115

Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And while I was in the hospital, I never actually got over, like you were talking about, Eric, my defensiveness, the sting to my ego and my character and my worth, enough to get to the place of thinking about how I could be a good doctor for him. I was trying so hard to make you guys believe that I was competent to do a good job here.

Patients 109

Patients IT Families Family 109

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

It’s now so common that more than half of all doctors report symptoms, with medical students , residents , and even senior clinicians feeling pushed to the brink. Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. They blame the medical student.

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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246