Diagnose Illness Medical Student Specialization 
Doctors for America
MAY 30, 2025
As physicians, we know that access to these evidence-based tools to prevent severe illness, disability, and death, are essential to the care of our patients and our shared goal to improve the health of all Americans. DFA teaches physicians and medical students advocacy skills and does advocacy at a state and federal level.
GeriPal
APRIL 14, 2022
On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . We got some really special guests with us. But does this drug really live up to the hype? Transcript.
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GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. It flows very well. Eric: Yeah.
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there. It’s good. So proud of myself.
GeriPal
JULY 7, 2022
Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. Eric: I don’t think we’re going to mention the cardiovascular system during this podcast. We’re going to be talking about pain and your book. But my editor cut it, to my dismay.
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