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Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee

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When we have a medication with up front harms and downstream benefits, it’s critical that we consider the time to benefit, or how long it will take an individual to benefit from a test or treatment. And really, the more important question is how quickly they would benefit from starting these medications. See screenshot below.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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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 was a medical and psychiatric resident between 1977 and 1982. AlexSmithMD .

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

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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

GeriPal

She’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc and is associate chair for professional development in the department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. I’ve known you since we did PSAP together, I think, back in 2007 ish. Eric 05:27 80 2080 20.

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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? Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome Joel Weissman, who is a health services researcher and deputy director and chief science officer for surgery at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Harvard Medical School. Did I get that right? Joel: Oh yeah.

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

GeriPal

Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? 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. No, no, no.