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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

and it has been linked to rising rates of physician depression , doctor suicide , and medical errors. Despite increasing attention to physician wellness , the rates of burnout continue to rise—especially among frontline clinicians, medical students, and residents. Primary prevention intervenes before injury (seatbelts).

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. It also feels like, I also grew up in med school in a three hospital system. We find the same thing when you actually measure at the level of the hospital.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast, Haider Warraich, who is the author of The Song of our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain.