GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. And how am I going to manage their pain? 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.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. In fact from the time he was diagnosed, he passed away within two and a half weeks. Something about it wasn’t necessarily right in terms of her desire to be always with us.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

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 the VA has become really the center of excellence for interdisciplinary pain management. And I was an internal medicine resident.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Just for the audience, we’re talking about, the NIA and the AA have been doing these frameworks since what, 2011? I guess I’m just sticking to the position that I would like someday to be able to diagnose Alzheimer’s as well as Lewy body disease, et cetera before someone has disabling impairments. Mainly for research.

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