Female doctors make $2 million less over a 40-year career than their male counterparts, new research estimates. More men become surgeons and women have been shown to spend more time with their patients, leading to fewer services that can be billed for. nyti.ms/31zKhkI

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Lindsey Jordan Gay, MD @mjhorstman for evaluating the evidence behind an important topic!

UTSW Palliative Care is looking to grow! Please feel free to share! #hapc #PalliativeCare

Some of the most distressing scenarios for primary teams are when patients change their minds about important medical decisions to avoid disappointing their loved ones. Yet, there can be dignity and beauty in that sacrifice. Love this spot on perspective. Shunichi Nakagawa #HPM

👀Are you a med student interested in #pallcare? Check out our 8-week *paid* summer internship in palliative care! Applications are open now! #hpm #medtwitter #hapc Learn more: bit.ly/BerkmanInterns…

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We have exciting news to share! UT Southwestern palliative medicine Advanced care provider fellowship is scheduled to start in October 2023! #hapc

Hospice care can be a powerful support, and there are heroes working for all types of hospice agencies. But I’m not sure I’ll ever feel comfortable with the idea of hospice for profit.#hapc #PalliativeCare In Los Angeles Times L.A. Times Opinion lat.ms/3JEc5bx

JAMA Oncology- early referral to palliative care

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As my fellowship year is almost coming to an end, I reflect on all that I learned this year in palliative care. Here are 6 lessons I learned. 1. Patients do not belong to us. They belong to their families so we to have their buy in.

Promoting empathy in medicine with #AI A thoughtful op-comic by Nathan Gray MD, FACP latimes.com/opinion/story/… L.A. Times Opinion

Hits hard. Powerful new poem by Dani Chammas jamanetwork.com/journals/jamao… #hapc

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Beyond Code Status | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… "Everyone dies. In medicine, we need to expand our definition of 'saving' to include doing our best to 'rescue from harm or danger' at the end of life as well."

Some meds in hospital are ordered BID (9a, 5p) or TID (8a, 1p, 5p) when more appropriate may be q12 (9a, 9p) or q8 (e.g. 7a, 3p, 11p). Certainly true for antibiotics, cardiac meds etc, but can be important for symptomatic meds too. Example: still neuropathic pain at night:

Comparative effectiveness trial of early #palliative care delivered via telehealth versus in person among patients with advanced lung #cancer. meetings.asco.org/abstracts-pres… ASCO Mass General Cancer Center #ASCO24 Areej El-Jawahri Vicki Jackson #PalliativeCare

New editorial by incoming UTSW Simmons Cancer Center UTSW Hematology & Oncology fellow @SLadhaniMD in JCO Oncology Practice "The Stethoscope and the Chair: Optimizing Hospital Room Design to Enhance the Patient-Physician Relationship in Inpatient Oncology" Amy Little Jones, MD Monika Kumar ascopubs.org/doi/pdfdirect/…