Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

As physicians, we know that access to these evidence-based tools to prevent severe illness, disability, and death, are essential to the care of our patients and our shared goal to improve the health of all Americans. These vaccine policy decisions impact the health of our patients and, as such, we expect the best practices to be followed.

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Doctors for America

MAY 15, 2025

Our patients’ lives depend on it. Contact your senators and state representatives in support of SAMHSA. ### About Doctors for America: Doctors for America mobilizes doctors and medical students to be leaders in putting patients over politics to improve the health of our patients, communities, and nation.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

MAY 31, 2022

The main difference between them is that internal medicine physicians address medical conditions in adults while family medicine physicians specialize in treating patients regardless of their ages. For internists, their education consists of specialized medical care which is not the focus of the education of family doctors.

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. See the discussion on the Special Consideration IMG (International Medical Graduates) Pilot Pathway below.) or Canada to become eligible for ABIM Board Certification.

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Doctors for America

JUNE 10, 2025

. ### About Doctors for America: Doctors for America mobilizes doctors and medical students to be leaders in putting patients over politics to improve the health of our patients, communities, and nation. DFA teaches physicians and medical students advocacy skills and does advocacy at a state and federal level.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . We got some really special guests with us. Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch: . Low-Dose Buprenorphine Patch for Pain – Fast Fact. Learn about how to initiate buprenorphine: . Transcript.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So I’m going to last longer in my position and I’m going to seek opportunities to grow and to help families and patients more and more. We’re just like, “Okay, I see this patient has a need. For example, there was one time when a patient had hiccups, it was like, “I don’t know what to do about this.”

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. The patient case. I think the theme is more saving someone’s life and the regret that follows.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered, which you’ve uttered a hundred times before, came out rote and scripted? And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Summary Transcript Summary. Yeah, I’ve been there too.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. You’re a disgruntled medical student.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

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. I could learn this.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We talked with Thor Ringler, who helped found the My Life My Story Project at the VA and beyond, and Heather Coats about the evidence base for capturing patient stories. So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. Because we all interface with it at the end of the day as patients.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. These studies are important. So, learn as many as you can and what they’re all about.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Patient Poets: Illness from the Inside Out. So we are delighted today to welcome Marilyn McEntyre, who’s a longtime teacher of literature and medical humanities. I think it’s titled Patient Poets Illness. Marilyn: Patient Poets: Illness From Inside Out. Alex: Patient Poets: Illness From Inside Out.

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Doctors for America

MAY 5, 2025

HIPAA is a decades-old law that provides the foundation for medical privacy and is critical for doctor-patient trust. HIPAA privacy rights are foundational to the trust between doctors and patients, and to the integrity of our health care system. Department of Health and Human Services et al.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 May 30, 2025 Coalition Acts to Protect Pregnant Patients’ Federal Right to Emergency Care, Including Abortion By Intervening in a Federal Challenge to EMTALA, Doctors for America Seeks to Protect Health and Lifesaving Care WASHINGTON, D.C.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

We have two authors, books, op-eds, prolific authors, and today’s podcast is a two-part special. Rosanne: I think I was motivated by the number of times patients asked me to get rid of their pot-bellies, quite honestly. And my patients started coming in talking about why didn’t you ever recommend that to me?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. Haider: And because it is so subjective and because we have these arbitrary rules around what the right patient with pain looks like, I think we really trap patients in a really difficult situation.

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Doctors for America

MAY 15, 2025

As a result of these massive cuts to FDA’s scientific and technical expertise, drug development and approvals have slowed down, hindering access for patients to promising treatments. DFA is an organization of over 27,000 physician and medical student advocates in all 50 states, representing all areas of specialization.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

That happened to me when reading “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.” 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. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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Doctors for America

JUNE 20, 2025

How can patients and clinicians trust that drugs approved with one to two months of review are truly safe and effective?” DFA is an organization of over 27,000 physician and medical student advocates in all 50 states, representing all areas of specialization. Corners are likely to be cut.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

It’s now so common that more than half of all doctors report symptoms, with medical students , residents , and even senior clinicians feeling pushed to the brink. In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. They blame the medical student. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible.

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Doctors for America

APRIL 22, 2025

Our patients deserve better, and our communities deserve to feel safe. The time for action is long overdue. ### About Doctors for America: Doctors for America mobilizes doctors and medical students to be leaders in putting patients over politics to improve the health of our patients, communities, and nation.

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Doctors for America

JUNE 23, 2025

As a nonpartisan organization of thousands of physicians and medical trainees committed to health justice, we bear witness to the trauma these policies inflict on our patients, our communities, and the healthcare system as a whole. Bar ICE presence in hospitals, clinics, and health centers without a judicial warrant.

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Doctors for America

MAY 13, 2025

. ### About Doctors for America: Doctors for America mobilizes doctors and medical students to be leaders in putting patients over politics to improve the health of our patients, communities, and nation. DFA teaches physicians and medical students advocacy skills and does advocacy at a state and federal level.

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Doctors for America

MAY 21, 2025

These attempts by the State of Texas to interfere in HIPAA privacy protections compromise the very core of medical ethics – open communication and trust between a patient and their doctor,” said Christine Petrin, MD, MPH, Board President of Doctors for America. Two major U.S.

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Doctors for America

APRIL 29, 2025

The president and his cabinet’s decisions directly impact how we practice and care for our patients. However, this assessment comes with alarm – essential services our patients rely on and that we as clinicians need to provide high-quality, evidence-based care have been obliterated by seemingly haphazard decision-making.

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