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How frustrating work environment affects empathy in resident doctors?

Tiny Physician

Nevertheless, PG doctors have to work 80 to 100 hours a week without any holidays and this tiring schedule does affect their physical and mental health. When the COVID pandemic hit India, Government should have taken it as an opportunity to strengthen our health infrastructure. are not met.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Also delighted to welcome, Devon Check, who is a health services and implementation researcher, and assistant professor at the Duke University School of Medicine. Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. Today we discuss: What is the best terminology? Homelessness? Marginally housed? What makes palliative care for people experiencing homelessness challenging? What makes it rewarding? And I gonna choose Bryan Adams, summer of 69.

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A Podcast on Inhalant Misuse: From Glue to Galaxy Gas

PEMBlog

Welcome Recently, theres been a concerning rise in recreational use of nitrous oxide, often referred to as Galaxy Gas, which is actually a brand name, which has become synonymous with flavored nitrous oxide products. The customers and the people selling them know otherwise. English elite. Theyre felt within seconds and last 15 to 30 minutes or less.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. We also talk about the eligibility for the unit, what makes it run including the interdisciplinary team and the inmate peer workers, and the topic of compassionate release.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary If palliative care was a drug, one question we would want to know before prescribing it is what dose we should give. Give too little – it may not work. But before we jump into that topic, Jennifer, do you have a song request for Alex? Jennifer 01:20 I do have a song request for Alex. Saw them play a couple times.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

But the consequences are real, from research funding dollars to health systems investment. . Since then there has been a lot of back and forth, with even a couple of podcasts from us, several JAMA viewpoints, and most recently a series of published replies from leaders in the field on why ACP is still valuable (see below for references). .

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