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Be The Market: How Doctors Should Invest Their Money

The Motivated MD

Add in the complexities of family life, child-rearing, and pursuing any interest outside of your career, and much of your time is spoken for. You spend your life dedicated to patient care while still hoping to leave work and have the energy to be mentally and physically present for your families and friends.

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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

Special thanks to Todd Florin, MD, MSCE who contributed to this post – he is also an expert on respiratory and infectious emergencies. A common phenomenon in EDs around the country, this scenario is only made worse by typical spikes in patient volumes during respiratory viral seasons.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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10 Things To Do To Keep Your Heart Happy

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

In addition to a special day called Valentines, I would like to bring awareness to why we should keep our hearts healthy. Try shutting off the lights, putting your phone away, sleeping in a cool and comfortable bed, limiting electronics in the bedroom, and having no caffeine after 4pm. The bedroom is recommended only for sleep.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. This is my early father’s day gift from the family. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Jennifer. Jennifer: Thanks. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Areej. Eric: Yeah.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

Consider it a supplement to what you remember from Biochemistry and the instructions on the family’s laminated care plan sheet. My special guest podcaster, Emily Groopman, is an actual Pediatric Geneticist in training and we hope that you will find this episode useful. So, importantly, you may not have a positive family history.