Aspiring Minority Doctor

OCTOBER 23, 2021

I was ecstatic when I had the opportunity to meet her in person for the first time as a 2nd year medical student (see post HERE ), and even before then, she was the first person I ever highlighted in my Minority Women in Osteopathic Medicine section (that post can be found HERE ). And guess who led the session? How crazy is that?!?!

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 18, 2023

Additionally, this past week alone, a large number of former medical students who rotated with me during my intern year graduated from the shorter duration residencies in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, etc and are now getting to do what they set out to do. Plus, I didn't even lose much time on my original timeline!

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

If you’re a 4th year medical student who is unmatched at this point, my advice is the following: Focus on securing a one year preliminary or transitional year position! Even if you had your heart set on a particular specialty, at this point, making sure you graduate with a JOB should be of utmost importance.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

Author: Ishani Majmudar Medical waste is rising tremendously each year, and its implications are not slight. Medical waste is a broad term used to describe any waste products generated at healthcare facilities and includes everything ranging from the disposal of small needles to the energy consumption of radiologic scans.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 17, 2021

I couldn’t just use credit cards to pay for my applications, because I was already maxed out from previous years (having a ton of student loan debt and trying to stay afloat as a single parent will do that to you). There's not much, so I'll just include both posts here. Hopefully, this last hour will be a smooth one. Anyway, back to ERAS.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). How do you do that? Do you do what I do, pull out a handy-dandy opioid equianalgesic table to give you a guide on how much to convert to? . which advocates for an updated, wait for it… equianalgesic table! . Drew: Yeah.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Together, these two phenomenal guests help us understand the structural and individual challenges of Indigenous peoples in academic medicine, public health, and beyond. Sophie Neuner, proud member of the Karuk Tribe, and a Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We are a collective profession of high-earning and driven individuals. Individuals still pursue real estate over stocks, or in parallel, because the stock market is historically more volatile than real estate, making real estate a safer investment during economically uncertain times. I understand the incentive, sure. Remember that.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

member.services@mygreendoctor.org Author: Ishani Majmudar Medical waste is rising tremendously each year, and its implications are not slight. Single use has become the custom for most clinicians and managers, just as disposable products have become a large part of the medical supply line. The use of medications in U.S.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 1, 2022

My intent this year was to at least update everyone at the end of every month, but work and life distracted me from my favorite hobby of writing. I'll try my best to catch everyone up with this post, and for the sake of time, I'll try to keep it relatively brief since I know I can get a bit wordy. I love my Plastic Surgery residency family!

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

(Published 3/18/19, updated 6/20/25) What Is Physician “Burnout”—and Why It Matters Physician “burnout” is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress in the medical workplace. and it has been linked to rising rates of physician depression , doctor suicide , and medical errors.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I was really fascinated not only with the medical side of things, but some of the. Anish 00:24 Thanks so much for having me. Alex 00:26 And we’re delighted to welcome Emily Martin, who is a palliative care doc at UCLA. Emily, welcome to GeriPal. Emily 00:32 It’s good to be here. Evie, welcome to GeriPal. Evie 00:41 Thank you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. We’ve talked at length on prior podcasts about the failures of aducnumab, Biogen, and the FDA’s decision to approve it. . But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No No it’s not just the French version of Aducanumab). . In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!)

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. I’ve seen this question come up a lot since finishing fellowship nearly two decades ago.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

When I was a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, I participated in their Ethics track. This included additional classes in medical ethics as well as a scholarly project examining the medical ethics of a specific clinical situation.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Well-being committees are popping up at every level of an organization. And C-suites now have chief wellness officers sitting at the table. Eric 01:54 Why’d you pick this song, Naomi? Naomi 01:57 Because it really talks about this beautiful experience of our beloved, which is ourselves, the part that we often cut out of the equation.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). But does this drug really live up to the hype? Right, Katie?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. It wasn’t until the end that the best term emerged – storycatching. It’s since spread to over 70 VAs.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

There are now nearly 300 cryogenically frozen individuals in the US, another 50 in Russia , and a few thousand prospective candidates signed up. And Ellen Ripley and the crew waking up in a cryotube used for interstellar travel in the Alien series? The brief history of cryonics That’s precisely the basic idea of cryonics.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Justin Sanders wants to be sure the newer generations of palliative care clinicians understand the early principles and problems that animated the founders of hospice and palliative care, including: Origins of the word palliative – its not what I thought! If you read just one, read Palliative Medicine – Just Another Specialty ?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. Today we talk with Josh about how to anticipate and avoid the uncanny valley. And talk about times when we’ve fallen into it. . Key message: Listen to the music. All the time. ;). We’ll have links to it.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Social pain and loneliness.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So most of our medical schools have simulation centers. I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. We’re going to define what that is and how it applies to the work that we do.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

And so, it’s about going live on stage in the medical audience, and everything from the whiteboard in the surgery room saying, “Here’s the lineup. But before we go into that topic, I think, Liz, you got a song request for Alex. Liz: That’s right. It’s called the Beginning of the End and it’s by Weezer.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. First, the lyrics, that’s the main reason why I chose it. The theme is death. LaVera: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome you to the GeriPal Podcast, Julien Cobert, who is an intensivist and aging researcher GeriPal Podcast, Julien. Julien: Thanks Alex, thanks Eric. It’s great to be here. Eric: So we’re going to be talking about aging in the ICU. Chris Cornell is one of my favorite musicians. Alex: (Singing).

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

As BJ MIller writes in the foreword, “ May this book be a portal — a way for us to move beyond the unwise territory of trying to ‘do it right’ and into the transcendent terrain of noticing what we can notice, loving who we love, and letting death — like life –surprise us with its ineffable beauty. I got questions. Thank you, Alex.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

So we are delighted today to welcome Marilyn McEntyre, who’s a longtime teacher of literature and medical humanities. Who is a long time teacher in the joint medical program, now Emeritus. Joint medical program is between UC Berkeley and UCSF. I was a medical student there some 25 years ago or so.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

How do you find time to write and also be doctors and academic professors? Revisions and working with editors Writing an Op Ed – how to start, what to write, where to send it TheOpEdProject as a resource for learning more We look forward to the books and op-eds our listeners will write! Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Rosanne.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary What is a healthy diet and how much does it really matter that we try to eat one as we age? That’s the topic of this week’s podcast with three amazing guests: Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston. Emily Johnston is a registered dietitian, nutrition researcher, and Assistant professor at NYU.

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Doctors for America

APRIL 22, 2025

Last week, at least six individuals were hospitalized and two have died following a shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Just days earlier, multiple students were wounded in a shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas , almost a year after another shooting there.

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Doctors for America

APRIL 29, 2025

Meaningful Clinical Experience: We were pleased to see President Trump appoint an individual with essential clinical and research experience to serve as the next FDA Commissioner. FDA must continue to defend such regulations in the courts to fulfill its mandate of ensuring the safety and efficacy of medical products.

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