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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. About us – Dignity in Care. Research Team – Dignity in Care.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. And so it was from that time on that then I continued going and that’s how Thor came into my life.

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

GeriPal

I think some of that is from some of my thinking about maybe what I can potentially think about with the individual to support them. ” Eric: And I remember from my last podcast, Ashwin, it was about individualizing our approach to loneliness too, right? I would say that I primarily skew my questioning towards isolation.

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

GeriPal

So for those of you listening via YouTube, here’s the live version for those of you who are listening on the podcast, you’re going to get my prerecorded version with lots of loops and I’m doing consultation with my new music teacher who’s a music producer in LA. I always thought this article came out 2011.

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Podcast Episode: The Unvaccinated Child with Fever

PEMBlog

The episode emphasizes thoughtful, individualized care in the context of rising vaccine hesitancy and declining immunization rates. And Van den Bruel in BMJ 2011 found procalcitonin to have better specificity than white blood cell count. Now let’s talk about pneumonia. Why don’t I just draw a blood culture?