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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Moral injury is a normal human response to an abnormal traumatic event—a deep soul wound shattering one’s identity and morality. Yet moral injury is not an official diagnosis. Enter the real diagnosis—human rights violations—with clear evidence-based solutions. I’ve witnessed all far too frequently among physicians.

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Mental Health Matters: Recognizing Depression In Adults & Teens

Center for Family Medicine

Mental Health Warning Signs Having an off day from time to time is completely normal. Short-term depression following a sad event, such as a death in the family or getting fired from a job, is expected. This serious symptom should also be addressed right away by contacting emergency services or a mental health crisis line.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both. We know what’s going to happen. Brittany 15:07 Right.

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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

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals. You sort of had a month after all of those events. So I think that was one of the key eligibility criteria.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed?

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. But, for a majority, it’s a first time event. To Susan’s point. Do I have access to good food?