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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. I think in the era when I trained in the 2008 timeframe, you know, it was very much just like somebody has pain, they need opioids, they have pain, they have more pain, they need lots more opioids. How are we gonna do that if he leaves the hospital?

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

We don’t want people dying in the hospital if their goal is to be at home. Either they go down continuous home care or somebody comes to the home, or they go into GIP, or they are a live discharge and get admitted to the acute care hospital. ‘Cause we don’t want people dying in the ICU. Most of the time it works out.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer. I got one more lightning question, Janet, you’re at UCSF you’re caring for a patient in the hospital.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Eric 07:03 And those classic studies, were those done in the hospital and PALP care units and clinic? Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. And we have some great guests.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. And I was terrified.