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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

So I went in Mike’s place for a couple times, and I think the first one was in 2007, and I just remember year after year, ADGAP always talked about, “Oh, the numbers are so bad. How do we train primary care doctors to do geriatrics? Oh, woe is us. Everything is so bad.” But she wrote this a counter.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. And I try to provide as much objective data as I can on mortality risk and complication risk, but I also try to paint a clear picture of what life may look like afterwards, what the best case scenario is, the worst case scenario, and the most likely case scenario.