Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 1, 2022

I love my Plastic Surgery residency family! I'll try my best to catch everyone up with this post, and for the sake of time, I'll try to keep it relatively brief since I know I can get a bit wordy. I'm not going to lie, after two years of working in the urgent care setting, being in the ER was super chill for me.

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Hospital IT Medical Student ER 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Alex: First three words would be, family and history and diversity. Anne: Is there a movement? I love them.

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 102

FDA Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

To further expand patient input into product development, the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) Office of Therapeutic Products or “OTP” (formerly the Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies, or “OTAT”) is holding a free public workshop titled, Clinical Trials: The Patient Experience.

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Patients Patient-Centered Family Families 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

” Somehow, there’s this signal that the patients and families had to pick up that maybe the surgeon wasn’t so enthusiastic, or if I just dump risk on them, maybe they’ll say, “I don’t want this.” What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you? Every time.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

And so they can go to frankaustdeseski.com or mettainstitute.org and find out about upcoming workshops and that sorts of thing. And I think up until the time when my aunt was passing, I had been very afraid of the idea of death in my family. It’s put its emphasis much more on educational work, which is fantastic.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 123

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And then we started pushing a lot more surveys electronically to patients, which, of course, has its challenges, because not everyone’s as tech savvy as, you know, our highly educated patients who have access to technology. So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families. Is that fair to say?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. She’s a palliative care nurse educator and a writer, and she’s joining us from the great state of Hawaii.

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. So there may be a reason that the the social safety net plays a role in preventing the negative effect of a negative workshop. Lauren 19:01 Yeah, so in our second paper, we asked that exact question. What is your function?

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 63

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Like, do you think maybe, you know, let’s educate. And also, you know, do they know of anyone, friends, family, coworkers who’s been attacked, were assaulted as a part of these incidents? Alex 33:17 Yeah, we had to workshop this. It was like talking about smoking cessation. You’re pre contemplative.

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Mental Health Community Screening IT 118

FDA Law Blog

APRIL 20, 2025

Patients and their families and caregivers have long fought to have a seat at the table with decision-makers. Patient Listening Sessions and Patient-Focused Drug Development meetings) to more systematically involve patients, allowing them to educate all stakeholders about their lived experiences and treatment needs.

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