Tiny Physician

JULY 14, 2021

By the end of their internship a few undergraduate medical students would have decided on their favorite branch for residency, based on the limited experience that they had during their internship. By the end of my internship, I was quite interested in Internal Medicine (IM) and wanted to pursue the same for my residency.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. Tell me about your illness.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So during the dissertation, that was a method for my PhD research and that’s related to… I was learning about African American elders experiences of psych-social-spiritual healing and serious illness. Tell me about your illness. So that’s a title of a publication in qualitative health research.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. It was this slow build, I would say.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

And finally, Wendy offers a drawing lesson and ONE-MINUTE drawing assignment to help us (and our listeners) be more present and connect with one another. What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? First you have to be a volunteer and see what it’s like to be present at the bedside.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I’ve been running a medical storytelling program called the Nocturnus. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. I’m an internal medicine trained physician. And for about five years, my mom was declining from a dementia illness, we think something Parkinsonian.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Really talking about, Bob did a talk that I was not present at what meeting Alex? Bob: Well, it changed how I helped talk to people who are seriously ill and it acknowledged some of the feelings that I have and helped me be more aware of those feelings when I’m taking care of patients. And it was a wonderful talk on mentoring.

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