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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And it culminated in him giving a bad light to the patient in the hospital room because that was the only semblance of normalcy for this patient. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. So it’s just carried with me through time.

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

GeriPal

For example, and not to criticize medical students, but sometimes you get an M1 or M2 writing about burnout in physicians, and sometimes I’m like, okay, that’s a harder piece to write about. So, for example, in my essay, I initially used the phrase emergency room, and JAMA said, “We use emergency department.”

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

And then one day when I was in my third year of medical school, I was in the gym and I hurt my back in a really horrific way. I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. If you see an empty room, just do your thing.