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. So why are physicians experiencing physical and mental collapse from overwork?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

But I had a terrific MSTAR medical student working with me this past summer who was looking to see whether there were the type of medication, like the half life or was a Z versus a benzo. Alex 13:34 MSTAR medical students in aging research apply now. I think the application medications are due soon, Eric.

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Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 119

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I was really fascinated not only with the medical side of things, but some of the. The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. Anish, can I ask you why you went into radiation oncology? Anish 04:13 Yeah. So it’s a good question. Thank you.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. Here’s one, a senior resident presented a patient morning report and the physical exam said the patient had a scar in the groin. Why did you think that?”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. Here’s one, a senior resident presented a patient morning report and the physical exam said the patient had a scar in the groin. Why did you think that?”

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. We know that this is necessary in theory, we know that health is not only absence of disease, but physical, social, and mental wellbeing.

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

You’re a disgruntled medical student. You’re thinking about dropping out of medical school. And so I went and I kind of reached out and found that they were doing a one week training, multidisciplinary training, which they offered me a place on as a medical student. But I want to go back in time now.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 104

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

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. They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. Amber: Norm is, yeah.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

So it’s a five component scale and it includes slow gate speed, weak and grip strength, exhaustion, unintentional weight loss, and low physical activity, which I really like thinking about those components. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. That’s a great question.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But there physically wasn’t the time, and there wasn’t that energy to be able to do everything for. It was having to reconcile with the fact that I was getting responsibilities and needs shared of others that I could meet. From a skill set standpoint, it’s within my scope of practice and palliative care and oncology.

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IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 111

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

So one end of the spectrum is somebody who’s just a total novice, and it’s clearly very awkward and they’re not used to talking to people in a clinical encounter, like a medical student or something like that. Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It’ll come out in these deviant behaviors, just like you mentioned earlier, where maybe we stave off seeing that patient, send the medical student instead or delay that visit till the end of the day. Keri: What we can’t acknowledge within ourselves or say in words, it’ll come out in behaviors. We’ll act it out.

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Patients IT Family Families 109

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

But everybody might, when I was a chaplain educator, I taught medical students as summer chaplain interns because everyone needs to know how to be able to recognize spiritual distress. Some more assessment also potentially some interventional around total pain, including spiritual suffering that actually may worsen physical pain.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

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. And that poetry has helped in the process of both psychological and even sometimes physical healing.

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IT Patients Medical Illness 70

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Bill 16:55 First of all, I just have to go back to Dax, because Dax in 1973 is when I first came out here as a senior medical student and met Al Johnson. And it bothers me how the nurses are there, the physical therapists are there, some of the social workers are there. And I followed that story ever since. Eric 46:49 Yeah.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. We are really trained to treat it as a purely physical sensation that you can rate on a scale of zero to 10 with specific tools. And it is as much an emotion that one feels as it is a physical sensation.

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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. They blame the medical student. Tell her she is a difficult student and then preserve the career of the guy who’s the surgeon bringing in the money.

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Doctors for America

JUNE 23, 2025

Detaining individuals in overcrowded, unsanitary facilities without timely access to medical care directly endangers their lives. Children and families are experiencing severe psychological distress, toxic stress, and long-term harm to physical and mental health due to forced separations and the constant threat of deportation.

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