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2025 Doctor Job Outlook: Why Go Locum Tenens?

Barton Associates

When you think of healthcare, you likely think of doctors first. One way to increase access to care to patients who need it—especially those who live in rural areas with a higher shortage of healthcare professionals—is for current physicians to take locum tenens positions. Why become a locum tenens physician?

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids. What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? Tamryn: Yes, 100%. And I don’t know where if we’re there yet.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

And I’m using these personal sound amplification products, these PSAPs for young adults who are in their mid twenties, transitioning off of their parents’ insurance, or they’re going to college and they no longer qualify for Medicaid as a child, and they don’t have hearing aids anymore. Is that right?

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Green Practice News – The Climate Issue June 2025

My Green Doctor

Here we suggest steps that healthcare managers and clinicians can take to protect their patents. We hope you will discover resources to share with your family as well! The EIB developed a first-of-its-kind tool to quantify how climate hazards like heatwaves, floods, and poor air quality will drive up healthcare demand across Europe.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. The intervention was a negative study for the primary outcome, hospital length of stay. What is sludge?

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. But if the services that they require aren’t able to be provided within, they have Health Net as their insurance, so we contract with specialists in the community. They suffered from it.

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