Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 1, 2022

I love my Plastic Surgery residency family! I had never rotated in it when I was a medical student, so it was kind of cool being behind the curtain. 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.

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Hospital IT Medical Student ER 52

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

When I was a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, I participated in their Ethics track. This included additional classes in medical ethics as well as a scholarly project examining the medical ethics of a specific clinical situation. Medicine involves many extremely ethically challenging situations.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Family Families Healthcare Professional 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family. That’s so good for us.

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IT Family Families Clinic 102

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We can train medical students and residents about geriatrics without geriatricians. And our target population of learners is still fellows, but we have medical students and residents and pre-med students and faculty and folks from all over the world join us for these bi-monthly online virtual meetings.

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. You’re a disgruntled medical student.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 104

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day.

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IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 110

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. And so I really gain that and I love the chorus words that she uses in this song.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. Links: – Uncanny Valley post on Josh’s fantastic substack Notes from a Family Meeting.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. And so the control room is a contiguous room, but the individual rooms where the patients, the actors and the doctors are separated by a wall.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

When patients leave the hospital, the infection may be cured, but the patient and family will need to contend with a host of major new functional and cognitive deficits. You can use that when you’re talking to families about prognostication. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. The book starts with the story of your grandfather with whom you lived, and there’s obviously a lot of family connection that you talk about in your patients, but also for yourself. Was it that thunderclap moment?

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

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. ” I think that’s what I’m talking about with action, or it might be family leave policies.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? 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. I’m also a geriatrician and a palliative care physician, so I’ve talked to families and patients about death and dying.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 122

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

But that just didn’t really resonate with what I saw clinically which was that there was lots of suffering both in the patient, their family and on the clinical team and just felt it was really this space where I didn’t have a lot of evidence to guide me. Don’t worry about their alcohol use or drug use. Give some pleasure.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Who is a long time teacher in the joint medical program, now Emeritus. Joint medical program is between UC Berkeley and UCSF. I was a medical student there some 25 years ago or so. Marilyn: Well, I lived in a three generation family and my grandmother was an English teacher, and my mother was a teacher and everybody read.

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IT Patients Medical Illness 70

GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

And then I feel like when I’m in clinic I’m helping individuals, and you only have so much time to help so many people. I came from a family where you didn’t write things down, somebody could find them and hold you to them or all of that kind of stuff. There’s a little paranoia in the family for good reason.

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IT Healthcare Professional Healthcare Transportation 105

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

When I was a medical student, I actually worked with Elizabeth in her research group at OHSU. And for any, any diet, it can, we can really tweak it to an individual’s preferences, their needs, that kind of thing. So I lived with a family there. Anna 07:06 Thank you. Yeah, it’s a good question.

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IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

Doctors for America

APRIL 22, 2025

Last week, at least six individuals were hospitalized and two have died following a shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Just days earlier, multiple students were wounded in a shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas , almost a year after another shooting there.

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Medical Student Emergency Room Community Patient-Centered 52

Doctors for America

JUNE 23, 2025

These raids, detentions, and family separations are both morally reprehensible and public health catastrophes. As a nonpartisan organization of thousands of physicians and medical trainees committed to health justice, we bear witness to the trauma these policies inflict on our patients, our communities, and the healthcare system as a whole.

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Medical Student Mental Health Healthcare Patient-Centered 77