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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Alex: And, it means pain management. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. Alex: So many, I remember in Palliative care fellowship learning how to prescribe Tramadol and even giving a talk at the general on pain management and recommending Tramadol. Eric: That was the SAT answer.

IT 126
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Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee

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And I was really excited just to learn how to manage these patients, because in the patients in geriatrics clinic that we see, fractures just can be so devastating and result in loss of independence. And so many older adults with diagnosis of osteoporosis have never received any therapy for it. It’s like 2007 or something.

Clinic 67
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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008.