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Images of the Dying: A Podcast with Wendy MacNaughton, Lingsheng Li, and Frank Ostaseski

GeriPal

What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction. And dying is too big, too profound for any one model, including the medical model. I wonder why you did that.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

It’s now so common that more than half of all doctors report symptoms, with medical students , residents , and even senior clinicians feeling pushed to the brink. A physician actually ended up in status epilepticus, like in the ICU with event like almost dead from seizures as a result of sleep deprivation and overwork.

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