ALEX SABLE-SMITH, MD, MPH

MIXED MESSAGES

The Insights, Inspirations and Introspections of a palliative care physician

ABOUT ME

I am a family physician who practices pain medicine and palliative care in the San Francisco Bay Area. I created this blog to share resources, my thoughts, and selected writing. My interests include pain medicine, human-centered design, medical education.

2014: MD, MPH University of Missouri

2017: Family Medicine Residency, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

2018: Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship, Stanford University

2020: Pain Medicine Fellowship, Stanford University

Nausea, Vomiting & Antiemetics

Nausea, Vomiting & Antiemetics

In this video, I run through the basic pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, and treatment of nausea and vomiting. Click HERE for PDF...

Lots of Pain Education

Lots of Pain Education

I stumbled upon the University of Washington Pain Medicine website a few years ago when working on a quality improvement project in...

The Morphine Drip

The Morphine Drip

One of the most infamous treatments in medical care is the morphine drip. While often associated with end-of-life care, morphine and...

Introducing Palliative Care to Patients

Introducing palliative care to patients poses a challenge. It’s a service that is unfamiliar or misunderstood by many patients and their...

YouTube Resources for Primary Care

I spend a lot of time on YouTube. In the small proportion of my hours on the site that I would consider productive, I've found some...

When you have tears and only 10-Minutes: The BATHE Technique

When you have tears and only 10-Minutes: The BATHE Technique

In a typical primary care appointment, you often have only 20 minutes to work with patients not only on the medical details of managing...

The 5 D's: A Framework for Discussing Artificial Nutrition

Food (and the eating of it) plays a central role in our experience of health and illness. Think of whatever the latest health food craze...

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