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Marie Bernard, MD
"You can do virtually anything...The doors are wide open. There are so many things you can do in this field."
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Academic Medicine
David B. Reuben, MD
"I found that I loved geriatrics - it was everything I had hoped for and more."
Mandi Sehgal, MD
"What I love most about my work are the relationships I establish with patients and their family and the differences I can make in their lives."
Neil S. Wenger, MD
"I’ve always loved taking care of the complex patient -- the individual who not only has complex medical issues but whose care also raises complex social and ethical questions."
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Clinical Practice
Rebecca Conant, MD
"House calls make an enormous difference in the lives of patients and their family members. Those of us who make house calls love what we do. It’s really very, very rewarding."
Rebecca Elon, MD
“Perhaps the most satisfying aspect of geriatrics for me is the opportunity to meet the people who are the history of our nation.”
Jerome Epplin, MD
“Caring for older people is something I really enjoy,” he says. “In fact, the more I do it, the more I enjoy it.”
Holly Stanley, MD
"I love all the intricate puzzle solving and the advocacy work in geriatrics."
Alfred E. Stillman, MD
"I can better understand relationships between the patient and the caregivers by visiting a home. You get to know patients intimately at home. They let you into their homes -- even knowing that you’ll see everything -- because they really need you."
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Geriatric Psychiatry
Gary Kennedy, MD
"Often, when you work with older people you stumble into a moment of drama when you’re listening to them tell a story. It’s fine to read history in books, but to talk with someone who’s lived it is precious. That’s one of the joys of geriatric practice."
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Health Industry
Gary E. Applebaum, MD
“It’s extremely satisfying that at Erickson, we were able to prove that if seniors lived in a socially supportive, active environment, with quality onsite medical care, the outcomes would be superior and the costs would be dramatically reduced.”
Cheryl L. Phillips, MD
“I was drawn to geriatrics because I wanted to care for a specific group of people -- frail older people -- but I also wanted to be in a place where I could blend that work with administrative and leadership roles. I knew there was not only a huge need for good clinical services for older people, but also an obvious need for physicians to set the quality agenda and become leaders in the field.”
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Health Industry
Phyllis Atkinson, GNP
"[I] realized that I wanted to know how older people differ from younger people and that I wanted to be an advocate for them."
Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN
“I have the same passion today that I had when I started. I can’t imagine anything I’d rather do than care for older patients and teach others to care for older patients.”
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Todd Semla, Pharm D.
“I always liked working with older people and bond with them. Older people always have interesting stories to tell."
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Irene Moore, MSSW, LISW
“Geriatrics is a wide open field. There’s plenty of room to make your mark in geriatric social work, no matter what venue you choose."
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Katrina Cannon, MD
VA Iowa City Healthcare System
"As I watch my friends, family and the nation age, the need for caring, compassionate and competent geriatricians is critical. Job security is always a bonus, but the reality that my skills as a geriatrician are truly needed is very rewarding."
Marc D. Rothman, MD
"Geriatrics is a good example of a field where you can both impact the individual before you and the population at large, which is another aspect that got me excited about it in the first place."
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Stories From the Trenches
"The Greatest Loss" David B. Reuben, MD, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
10 reasons I see only nursing home patients
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