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Helium-Filled Dreams

StorytellERdoc

A thin, white hospital blanket bunched and wrinkled at his girthy midsection. Over my numerous years as an ER doctor, I have met people that I never would have had the fortune, or misfortune (as some would say), to otherwise meet. It was she who got me to volunteer for my first Special Olympics as a teenager.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

No more googling "ER near me" in a panic; you can get quick and competent care at an urgent care center. A clinic is a medical facility where healthcare professionals provide specialized medical care to patients. Patients can receive consultations, diagnosis, and treatment without needing an overnight stay.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

My special guest podcaster, Emily Groopman, is an actual Pediatric Geneticist in training and we hope that you will find this episode useful. So my special guest host on this episode is a trainee in pediatrics and medical genetics. Her name is Emily Groopman, and she’s a current resident at Children’s National Hospital.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. So for those listening to the podcast, this is a clown looking very sad and what looks like a hospital administrator. Did they ask for a consult?” That blew my mind.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

And the hard part is, as a provider in palliative care, I actually have very little say of which hospice the individuals we consult to go to. It’s going to be published as a special report in JPM I hope in May with as of today, 279, I think HPM physician colleagues, signatures including 21 of the living past presidents of the academy.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans.

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