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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. They stayed in the hospital for longer. Joel: Oh yeah.

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CDC Pulls Vaccine Slide After Expert Cites Study Doesn’t Exist

Physician's Weekly

The slide, posted online Tuesday, cited a 2008 paper titled “Low-level neonatal thimerosal exposure: Long-term consequences in the brain,” and was said to have been published in the journal Neurotoxicology. More information Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has more on vaccines and autism. All rights reserved.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. They couldn’t get a case manager to refer them in palliative care.