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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

In fact, hospitals, clinics, and other facilities are already reeling from a shortage of providers and it’s hurting patients— according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortages of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals.

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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

Although this revolution has been brewing for years, the past few months marked a major change , as algorithms finally moved out of the specialized labs and into our daily lives. It’s obvious what a potential removing language barriers holds for medical appointments.

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STATEMENT RELEASE: SAMHSA Cuts Will Kill – Doctors for America Calls for Reinstating Funding for Mental Health and Addiction Resources

Doctors for America

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 May 15, 2025 SAMHSA Cuts Will Kill – Doctors for America Calls for Reinstating Funding for Mental Health and Addiction Resources WASHINGTON, D.C. Now is not the time to cut back on mental health resources.

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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 . We got some really special guests with us. And that’s a lot easier if all providers were X waivered too. Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch: . Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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

GeriPal

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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

GeriPal

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. It feels special to me. Because, for example, we get a lot of pieces on wellness and mental health. The first guest is Liz Salmi. I don’t know what this is. It feels important to me.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. Very, very few centers are providing those services. We’ve seen the stigma associated with mental health. We’re going to be talking about pain and your book.