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

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This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours. But that just didn’t really resonate with what I saw clinically which was that there was lots of suffering both in the patient, their family and on the clinical team and just felt it was really this space where I didn’t have a lot of evidence to guide me.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? The Listening “EAR” approach that simplifies assessment of loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings, and other practical pointers.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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And then once I came to the United States, I saw this whole different dimension of pain, because I started residency in 2011, this was really at the peak of the opioid prescription epidemic, if you may. And yet, if you look at our clinical approach to pain, it still remains quite basic. And I was an internal medicine resident.

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Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider

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Summary Transcript Summary There is a growing push to change how we define Alzheimer’s disease from what was historically a clinically defined syndrome to a newer biological definition based on the presence of positive amyloid biomarkers. So too systolic hypertension in elderly people, clinical trials. Alex: That’s right.

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