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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Eric 00:04 And Alex, we ve got another deprescribing super special with us today. This is Eric Widera. Alex 01:23 Yeah.

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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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What Is the Difference Between Family and Internal Medicine?

Hitchcock Family Medicine

When you find yourself having to choose a doctor or switch doctors, you might come across some new terms that describe various types of medical practitioners that you may not be familiar with. have 19% lower odds of prematurely dying if they have a primary care provider compared to those who only seek medical specialists for their care.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

So has a special resonance for, I think, a lot of people who are Tragically H ip fans. When I spoke to physicians who had been practicing back then, it seemed that the sort of modern cohort of medical students and residents and young physicians were facing a different set of challenges, a unique set of challeng challenges.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. That makes it really special for them and for 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. So Eric Cassell, for folks who don’t know, was a primary care physician. But really was a seminal pioneering figure in the field of bioethics, palliative care, et cetera.