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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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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

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.

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

GeriPal

Wait, first of all, what’s the incidence of calling EMS for falls over almost a decade, I think like 2007 to 2016, and what happens to people afterwards? Same thing with kind of medication management. Eric: So you both published a paper in JAGS, what, 2018, ’19 looking at what happens to people? Alex: The Wayback Machine.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

In particular, she reminds us that when we think about the most challenging of our patient encounters, they almost always involve a complex psychosocial dynamic, and this has received far less attention than communication and symptom management issues. . I don’t even remember pain management teaching. AlexSmithMD . Eric: 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. And so many older adults with diagnosis of osteoporosis have never received any therapy for it.

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

GeriPal

It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. And so because you remember, board certification didn’t come around until 2007. Alex 10:52 And did you have algorithms you’d present to them, like given this patient’s circumstance, these are recommendations?

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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? What does it mean for functional status, symptom management, location of care? That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. Joel: I’ll come into that in a second.