Melissa Gaines MD FACP

Melissa Gaines MD FACP

@mgaines1978.bsky.social

Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Care specialist, world traveler, wife, mother, daughter, and a recovering Pharisee

225 Followers 21 Following 19 Posts Joined Mar 2024
5 months ago

#hapc
#hapcSOTS23
#HAPCselfie
#HPMparty
#HAPCbaby
#HAPCfoodie
#hpmClassof23
#hapcRookie23
#pedPC
#pallonc
#palneph
#palCV
#Neuropal
#LiverPal
#PrognosisScience

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5 months ago
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The Soft Surrender - Trailer This is "The Soft Surrender - Trailer" by Randy Bacon on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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The Soft Surrender Red Carpet Premiere | Gillioz Theatre In "The Soft Surrender," noted filmmaker and photographer Randy Bacon intimately captures the poignant journeys of hospice patients and their caregivers revealing the unexpected beauty, love, hope, pe...

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Trailer for “The Soft Surrender” by Randy Bacon.

vimeo.com/1110046265

#hapc
#hapcSOTS23
#HAPCselfie
#HPMparty
#HAPCbaby
#HAPCfoodie
#hpmClassof23
#hapcRookie23
#pedPC
#pallonc
#palneph
#palCV
#Neuropal
#LiverPal
#PrognosisScience

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11 months ago
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Rocky Mountain Medicine CME Event

Dustin & I have registered and have made our travel arrangements. This is a half day of CME then we are planning a horseback ride and hiking! Bicycle trails are available for all! @ACPMissouri @ACPIMPhysicians @CoxHealth @KUSM_Wichita #cme #health. gcms.us/meetinginfo....

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1 year ago
Improving quality of life and end-of-life care: Standardizing goals of care notes in EHRs It is important that a healthcare team is aware of and understands a patient’s goals of care, both medical and personal. But that information, if documented, typically is not placed in a standar...

Improving quality of life and end-of-life car | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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Dr Greer describes the pivotal #REACHPC trial showing that #telehealth 💻 delievery of #pallonc improves symptoms while increasing access. Amazing to see this grace the Plenary stage of both @aahpm.bsky.social #hapc25 AND @ascocancer.bsky.social #ASCO24. My #supponc heart is full ❤️

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1 year ago

Congratulations! Go chiefs!

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1 year ago

I want to ask young vs older adults about communication from an Avatar or AI vs video person vs in the room person alas I am not a research expert.

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1 year ago

I thought it was funny that the map showed the sight in SW Kansas? 🤣

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1 year ago

We can always invite you to speak again!

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky On this week's podcast we discuss Ageism and Elections with guests Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky.

Ageism & the elections. People are feeling conflicted. On one hand, they have concerns about cognitive fitness of candidates for office. On the other, they worry about ageism. We discuss on this weeks podcast
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1 year ago

Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

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Ask Your Representative to Support the Save Medicare Act Medicare Advantage, the privatized option for Medicare, is rampant with fraud and overspending. These private insurers are using billions of dollars of government funding to increase their own profits...

The privatized option for Medicare (Medicare Advantage) is rampant with fraud and overspending that threatens the future of traditional Medicare. Private insurers shouldn’t be able to take billions of dollars in government funding just to increase their own profits.

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Many guidelines about improving communication in the ICU.

I really appreciate this slide showing the idea of clinical inertia in the ICU. From Kruser et a 2017 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

#hapc #hapc24 #medsky

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1 year ago
Bed in direct view of the bathroom commode A terry cloth poncho worn by a nurse to demonstrate bathing techniques. Various feeling blankets and apron’s for occupational therapy and walker for sizing and demonstration

Thankful for touring Hospice of the Valley #Dementia Campus during #hapc24 Design bedroom with the bed in direct view of commode, terry cloth poncho for bathing, #occupational therapy model room to teach ADLs with caregivers. Use warm rice pack to hold in hands, heated room, blow bubbles #hospice

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1 year ago
Dialectical thinking is 2 things that seem opposite can both be true at the same time. There are always multiple ways to see something and to solve a problem. Change is the only constant and can move between acceptance and change.

Writing a certain narrative can push us into single story which is dangerous for resilience.

Feel seen, validated in challenges and motivation to improve.
Say to yourself-
“I don’t like what is in front of me but I have to function/work within it while trying to change it.” #hapc24

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More great outpatient Palliative Care Talks today #hapc24 @ctsinclair.bsky.social

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Decisiontree for #hospice relatedness regarding interventions and remember to pay the Medicare allowable price if covered. #hapc24

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#hapc24 antiplatelet & anticoagulant decision tool for #palliative patients with 3 month or less prognosis

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Plenary #hapc24 “Many times we talk about the glory, but don’t know the story.”

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Watching the storm roll into #phoenix Wednesday after a day of #hospice updates at #hapc24 the lightning was crazy!

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CoxHealth's 36th Annual Geriatric Conference Please join us for the 2024 CoxHealth 36th Annual Geriatric Conference. We have a fantastic line up of speakers!

Join us virtually for the conference. We have a panel discussion about #Parkinson’s disease #geriatric #virtual
www.eventbrite.com/e/coxhealths...

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2 years ago

Excited to attend #hapc24

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