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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

I know this is like, we’re talking about math and so that makes it all a little complicated, but think about it this way. I really am not buying that it’s too complicated to do A over B, equal C over D, if you know three of the four variables. And then again, individualizing it to the patient. The old table, 1.5

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When Should Doctors Begin Investing in Real Estate?

The Motivated MD

We are a collective profession of high-earning and driven individuals. Individuals still pursue real estate over stocks, or in parallel, because the stock market is historically more volatile than real estate, making real estate a safer investment during economically uncertain times. I understand the incentive, sure. Remember that.

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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. Sometimes individuals have lung tumors that make it difficult for them to breathe. But radiation oncology was really more or less like a black box.

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A family physician's response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade

Vida Family Medicine

When I was a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, I participated in their Ethics track. This included additional classes in medical ethics as well as a scholarly project examining the medical ethics of a specific clinical situation. What Roe v.

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

GeriPal

Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood. Something that I look for is novelty, a compelling story, but also is there something actionable? They’re limited.

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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. And I’ll share that my own relationship with my father, who was a doctor, was a complicated one. Was it that thunderclap moment? Or was it something that came along in pieces as you went through your career?

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

Lauren: Although again, still thinking about what that means for an individual older adult is really important. I think it’s really, really complicated. Julien: But every time we look at one of these individual interventions, we’re not always seeing what we want to see. So, that part was not surprising.