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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

Ryan: I started in 2011. Eric: How does it feel like for you, Ryan, since 2011, you’ve had different roles? I’ve talked to, I don’t know if you know Houman Javedan from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. We can train medical students and residents about geriatrics without geriatricians.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011.

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

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Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF.

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

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Zachary: I mean, I did my med school and residency training in Louisville, Kentucky, and I had a second year med student lecture from Joe Rotella who was, I think the chief medical officer at Hospices at the time. I got one more lightning question, Janet, you’re at UCSF you’re caring for a patient in the hospital.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. 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. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Haider.