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“I experienced many deaths when I was a nurse, from babies, kids, young adults, the elderly, and my own family. It was always heartbreaking, but I found that staying with the dying and the family and supporting …
What anticipatory grief feels like [PODCAST]
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“How do we manage this? All patients meet with the physical therapist before surgery and within two days after surgery. They use transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) before and after surgery. They get a regional anesthetic block …
Opioid-free orthopedic surgery [PODCAST]
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“Scientific research impacts our lives, however, and much more profoundly than we generally appreciate. Considering the wide-ranging benefits, science is not just for scientists. Research discoveries are often translated to tools and applications down the road, usually …
Science impacts our lives more profoundly than we appreciate [PODCAST]
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“My quality of life is outstanding. I leave work every evening only after every call is answered, fax addressed, a prescription delivered, then retreat to my home a mile away. The proximity makes it easy to see …
How this primary care doctor found his dream practice [PODCAST]
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“Being a transactional lawyer for physicians is never dull because the more the regulations, guidance, and laws change, the more questions everyone has. But it’s more than just getting an answer to a question and being in …
Top questions doctors ask health care attorneys [PODCAST]
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In this special episode, I’m on the other side of the microphone. I’m interviewed by CMEfy’s Brian Cohen on the Co-Learning Clinician podcast, and we discuss the concept of physician co-learning, opinion pieces vs. gold standards in …
KevinMD on the Co-Learning Clinician podcast
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“The art and craft of being a physician and finding meaning in our care of others are to make poetry out of our lives.”
Steven Kamajian is a family physician.
He shares his …
As doctors, caring is our poetry [PODCAST]
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“My lifelong quest to become a healer — over 40 years as a family physician, scientist, and researcher with the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and the …
How whole-person care can make us better healers [PODCAST]
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“It’s not that physicians need to be more resilient. We’ve failed to provide them with the goodwill to be human and embrace their “whole selves” (people who are resilient often but not always), access to safe and …
We’re confusing resilience with grit [PODCAST]
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“If you did not have a colonoscopy, I would still recommend that you do it in a conventional way and get that IV sedation. But if you are an adventurer as I am, I would highly recommend …
Meet the doctor who had a colonoscopy without anesthesia [PODCAST]
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“Suppose you’re getting ready to send your young adult off to college for the first time. In that case, you’ve likely been spending the summer getting college dorm and apartment essentials lined up: bedding, storage cubes, first …
Why you should add advance directives to your college freshman’s checklist [PODCAST]
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“Not too long ago, a circumstance occurred. I have experienced similar circumstances several times in my career. However, this time, my response was different. It was like a switch in my brain flipped. I was ready to …
What it means to leave clinical medicine [PODCAST]
This article is sponsored by Novavax.
In this special sponsored episode. I’m joined by Dr. Filip Dubovsky, chief medical officer at Novavax, to discuss topics like COVID-19 and influenza in the fall and winter seasons, the importance of education to understand your vaccine …
Preparing for fall and winter: Importance of COVID-19 vaccination during the flu season [PODCAST]
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“Without a strong rural health care system, our nation’s ability to expand and contract with surges in demand will become very limited. When hospitals work together, they can better ensure that no community is left without a …
Keeping rural hospitals in the game [PODCAST]
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“I have come to appreciate why doctors find self-directed patients challenging, if not downright difficult. I wish all docs would engage with us, hear us out, and offer an explanation and further discussion when they disagree. The …
Urging patience with patient self-advocacy [PODCAST]
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“With regard to health care in the USA, the quote from Dickens is twice correct. We are in the best of times for knowledge, capability, and potential. We also are in the worst of times with regard …
Health care is upside down [PODCAST]
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“Yes, the opioid crisis in this country has caused a reckoning in the medical field about how to treat patient pain. Ignoring the pain will not make it go away.
Options are available beyond opioids, and policymakers and …
Addressing pain in patient experience surveys [PODCAST]
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“It has now been almost four years since I transitioned to academia. I see fewer patients per day and take fewer call. I also have more time with each patient, more time to recharge, more time for …
Toughness is not defined by a dollar amount [PODCAST]
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“Doing medical-legal consulting is a great way to use your medical training in a non-clinical field that really helps people. One of the many things we can do is help attorneys refute the question of a pre-existing …
How a medical-legal consultant refuted a pre-existing medical condition argument [PODCAST]
This article is sponsored by Mental Health Technologies (MHT), a cloud-based platform that enables health care providers to screen and measure mental health and substance abuse disorders.
Mental Health Technologies (MHT) brings much-needed technological innovation to a space in desperate need …
Mental Health Technologies: Revolutionizing technology within the behavior health care field
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