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

GeriPal

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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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

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. We are really trained to treat it as a purely physical sensation that you can rate on a scale of zero to 10 with specific tools.