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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. Even though many medical colleges provide outpatient consultations to only referral cases, people come to the emergency department for minor ailments.

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A Podcast on Inhalant Misuse: From Glue to Galaxy Gas

PEMBlog

Interestingly, when these are sold, either online or in physical stores, theyre marketed As additives to make your own whipped cream at home. I would consult a toxicologist because I know that this is rare. They should not be able to be sold easily online or in physical smoke shops. Frankly, these should not be so accessible.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

They want you to recognize their pain, not just their physical pain, but their trauma that they’ve experienced as a, as a, as a result of being on the streets. As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service.

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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. It’s like a long, I don’t know, almost like a quarter-mile centipede with legs, and the legs are the housing units, the medical units, inpatient mental health.

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

GeriPal

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing.

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

GeriPal

And it was really good for my mental and physicalPhysical health, obviously, but mental health really. And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? Get the hospice referral. The world will continue without you and you will feel better.

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