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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

– Serious Illness Conversation Guide podcast. Myself personally, I was in PCEP at Harvard, I think like 2007 or something with Rachelle Bernacki and a bunch of other great people. Psychiatric training is about major mental illness. AlexSmithMD . Links: – PDIA Faculty Scholars Program. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. And, that’s to help people who have serious illness, that’s to help people who have diseases of aging at a younger age, people who are homeless, people who are incarcerated.

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

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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

We think there are some cases, certain kinds of illnesses or conditions or operations, where people have the surgery and never get out of bed again. So for example, tracheostomies frequently occur in patients who are quite ill, but it’s not the trach itself that tends to lead to the mortality, it’s their generalized illness.

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Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee

GeriPal

It’s like 2007 or something. The post Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. It’s also important for us to think about when is it going to be helpful. James: Yeah. Alex: Thanks.

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

GeriPal

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.