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Episode 79: Human Dx unknown with Reza & U of C residents – abdominal pain

The Clinical Problem Solvers

He completed medical school at the Tufts University School of Medicine and internal medicine residency and chief residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. He is also a Section Editor for adult medicine cases at the Human Diagnosis Project. calcium carbonate).

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . Zachary: I mean, I did my med school and residency training in Louisville, Kentucky, and I had a second year med student lecture from Joe Rotella who was, I think the chief medical officer at Hospices at the time.

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

GeriPal

First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. Patient Values: Three Important Questions-Tell me more? Simple, right? Not so much, as each one of these steps is fraught with miscommunication. What else?

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. In one room the physician under study interacts with a white patient-actor, and in another room interacts with a Black patient-actor.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. And then there are a number of groups that go out in vans and cars and go out into the surrounding community of Kerala to provide care for patients who are in their homes.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. Haider: And because it is so subjective and because we have these arbitrary rules around what the right patient with pain looks like, I think we really trap patients in a really difficult situation.

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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. In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. They blame the medical student. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible.

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