Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 17, 2023

I am grateful for the many people and classmates who helped babysit so that I could make it to the lab and thrive as a medical student. I am grateful for my sister who stepped in to help once I became a third year medical student and needed to spend more time away on rotations. We shall see what January brings.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. But I just don’t expect my medical students, residents and generalist colleagues to do that and to have that. Pallimed post on “ Simplifying Opioid Conversions ”.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

But I had a terrific MSTAR medical student working with me this past summer who was looking to see whether there were the type of medication, like the half life or was a Z versus a benzo. Alex 13:34 MSTAR medical students in aging research apply now. I think the application medications are due soon, Eric.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Matthew Enevoldson, PR Manager at SkinVision told The Medical Futurist that technology such as their own is becoming more integrated within the health system, to both ensure that those who need treatment are made aware of it and that those who have an unfounded concern do not take up valuable time and resources.

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Patients Healthcare Board-Certified Telemedicine 111

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential. I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital. Did their pain management last throughout that entire session? And was that okay?

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 22, 2025

Greg Kirschen is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellow at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with a particular interest in pharmacology and metabolism in pregnancy. Teaching and clinical reasoning are his passions and he continues to teach and mentor students from the undergraduate to medical student and resident level.

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Hypertension Medical Student Hospital Management 52

ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Highlights from the data so far show that 91% of respondents are clinically active, with a large majority practicing in hospital- or system-owned offices, private practice or academic faculty practice, and more than half in multi-specialty group practice. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. Endocrine Society Robert W.

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Diabetes Board-Certified Telehealth Government 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. Zachary: I mean, I did my med school and residency training in Louisville, Kentucky, and I had a second year med student lecture from Joe Rotella who was, I think the chief medical officer at Hospices at the time. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 104

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

In this podcast, we cover a great deal of ground, including: Early challenges Dr. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. Was it that thunderclap moment?

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” They followed them during the course of their hospital stay. Lexy: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

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. She’s not in hospice, and you’re talking about admitting her to the hospital. She really should go to the hospital.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Managing anger is hard, it’s really hard. And yet we don’t ever talk about how to manage it. It’ll come out in these deviant behaviors, just like you mentioned earlier, where maybe we stave off seeing that patient, send the medical student instead or delay that visit till the end of the day. Eric: Zero.

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Patients IT Family Families 109

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

So one end of the spectrum is somebody who’s just a total novice, and it’s clearly very awkward and they’re not used to talking to people in a clinical encounter, like a medical student or something like that. And that’s very human, to be awkward. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I don’t manage anybody, but I get to sit in on some leadership meetings and make my voice heard. We were often the only ones left in the hospital. And then, and sometimes even on the role of the administrators making decisions, especially in the context of a pandemic, became so heavy that it was. It was hard to keep my balance.

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IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 110

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

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. You can have all these sort ideas about nociception pain suffering, but when you see patients in the hospital, it’s never one thing.

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Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 105