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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. Eric: And that’s what you found, that the healthcare system is perfectly designed to just deprescribe automatically after short periods of use? AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults. Tasce: Right.

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Are You Going To Wake Up From Cryosleep?

The Medical Futurist

Ettinger, who died in 2011, went on to found the Cryonics Institute in Michigan where he, his mother and his first and second wives all now reside in metal flasks kept at −196 °C. Wake me up when cryosleep ends The trouble with cryogenics and cryosleep is pure physics: our cells are filled with water.

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

GeriPal

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare.

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

GeriPal

What it found is that healthcare providers are better at identifying people that are connected more than disconnected. And so we essentially leveraged the National Health Aging Trend Study and looked over from a period from 2011 to 2019 to essentially look at the trajectory of people developing dementia in the sample over time.

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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.