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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. I was like, “I have all these things I’m doing in the hospital to try to make people better and then I might be sending them right back to a big hazardous environment.” Alex: The Wayback Machine.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. hospice use). Tammie 02:56 It usually doesn’t work no matter what. Corita 04:32 Yep.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . AlexSmithMD . Susan: Beautiful.

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Well-being and Resilience: a Podcast with Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, Ishwaria Subbiah

GeriPal

Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. They stayed in the hospital for longer. Did I get that right? Joel: Oh yeah.

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Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee

GeriPal

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. It’s like 2007 or something. Eric: That one, we see a lot of people who come in the hospital, some they have retention.

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