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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

I mean, the Laura, Carolyn and big shout out to Dr. Carolyn, who she and I were sleep fellows together and she’s a psychiatrist in private practice. And she actually did the feasibility study up in Portland with a local compounding pharmacy through with her Private practice practice. Of the medication.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. But I think then the other factor in this that makes it complicated is the decision for someone in Manhattan might be very different than the decision for someone in, like, rural Wyoming.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. It was a patient that I had taken care of, actually, as a resident, who followed me into my growing private practice. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them. This shouldn’t have happened. We can make this better.

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For family medicine workforce, HHS reorganization plan receives a failing grade

Common Sense Family Doctor

While I'm grateful for subspecialists who alleviate pain, rescue patients who are unable to breathe on their own, manage complicated fractures, and replace worn-out hips and knees, the gap between the number of family doctors we need and the number we have keeps getting wider. growth in the U.S. growth in the U.S.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

So my goal today is to share the wisdom that I have from 25 years as a doctor and 13 years in private practice in an ideal clinic. ” I’m like “Do you really want to like complicate your life? To give you the shortcut to your success. Help you reclaim your power as a healer. Just stop right now.

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Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

GeriPal

And particularly in California, we’ve seen lots of medical aid in dying practice kind of go out into these freestanding private practices because there are a lot of bureaucratic tensions with hosting these practices within hospital settings. You’re either giving that prescription or you are not.