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2025 Physician Wellness Retreats | Physician “Burnout” Retreats

Pamela Wible MD

All health professionals welcomed. Sponsorships available for medical students and residents. Contact Dr. Wible to save your spot for the ultimate Oregon coast physician retreat—and become the author your patients are searching for. Need help choosing the right retreat? Contact Dr. Wible. Ready to be your own boss?

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The Physicians Foundation Finds that Physician Wellbeing Remains Critically Low; New Survey Unveils Impact of Healthcare Consolidation

The Physicians Foundation

Its latest survey, 2024 Survey of America’s Current and Future Physicians , unveils the urgent need to improve physician wellbeing and center physicians’ perspectives in today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. Burnout is leading to challenges and tragic outcomes affecting mental health with many still afraid of seeking help.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . 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.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Lexy: Yeah, so I can say that I became about, in 2014, I had the opportunity to lead a center at our health system called the Evans Center that focuses on religion, spirituality, and health.

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

GeriPal

Liz wrote a fabulous perspectives piece in the NEJM titled “ Deciding on My Dimples ” which talks about her experience as a patient doing shared decision making during neurosurgery for resection of an astrocytoma. But my piece in the New England Journal is about being a patient right before awake brain surgery.

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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. One of the patients I spoke to really said this quite well. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Haider. Despite your background, Alex.

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2024 Summer Pinecones E-Newsletter -- ADVOCACY News

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

Topics on the AAFP agenda included: Improving Access to Primary Care for High Deductible Health Plans Enrollees - high deductible plans discourage patients from accessing primary to deal with problems such as diabetes and hypertension and delay care, leading to worsening health outcomes.